It's 1911. Twenty-six year old "trammer" in a copper mine, FRITZ, who hates his job and collects newspaper articles listing the frequent accidents in the mines, decides to see if he has the two dollars needed to attend a play. He does. He goes! At glorious Calumet Theatre he notices the same beautiful woman he saw the only other time he got to go to the theater -- LILLY. FRITZ and LILLY fall in love. But she is rich. He is poor. There are other obstacles. Which are overcome. Will they live happily ever after? "I don't see why not!" FRITZ hollers at the end.
We meet SARAH BERNHARDT, most famous actress in the world, who plays Marguerite in "Camille." FRITZ gets to meet her when she insists on being allowed to descend into a dark, hot, copper mine the following day. (Sarah B. did bring her troupe to Calumet in 1911 to put on the play "Camille" Astoundingly she did visit a copper mine. She was the first and probably only woman who ever did.) The main interest of this play is its characters and social setting. [Warning: there's a lot of French. But English speaking audience will easily understand the gist. SARAH BERNHARDT never learned English well. Her performances were given in French. Audience could buy a program with the translation.]

UNIQUE OPPORTUNITY for actor in her 60's to play BOTH HELENA MODJESKA and SARAH BERNHARDT!
Here are their photos:
https://www.pinterest.com/ocruz65/sarah-bernhardt/

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Sarah Bernhardt was the most famous actress in the world for 50 years! In her 60's with a bad knee "the divine Sarah" was still taking her troupe all over the world and starring in every performance. Her leading man, 40 years younger, was her latest lover.

In Act I, 1900, FRITZ and LILLY meet at ages 16 and 21, when she is newly married, secretly pregnant, attending a performance of Macbeth, with the famous actress MADAME HELENA MODJESKA as Lady Macbeth. FRITZ is a boy selling candy in the theatre. After the performance LILLY confides in MADAME MODJESKA about her pregnancy. In Act 11, LILLY and FRITZ meet again in 1911, at ages 26 and 31, during the "Camille" performance of SARAH BERNHARDT.

The next night BERNHARDT plays the son of Napoleon in a different play. That day she had insisted on going down a working copper mine -- the first woman ever to go down in a mine. She descended a mile underground.

Down in the dark, deepest level of the copper mine SARAH BERNHARDT meets this play's "hero," FRITZ, whom we met in Act I. Now he is a 26 year old "trammer" in the mine. Later FRITZ almost dies in a mine accident, something he has been worrying would happen. (Someone died every week in the copper mines of the U.P.)

There is a romance between FRITZ and LILLY. Complications. Misunderstandings. All ends happily!

Much of the play takes place at the beautiful, historic Calumet Theatre, Upper Peninsula of Michigan, still operating in 2020. See pix at:
http://www.calumettheatre.com/about/gallery/