The New Moon is the name of an
operetta with music by
Sigmund Romberg and book and lyrics by
Oscar Hammerstein II, Frank Mandel, and Laurence Schwab. The show was the third and last in a string of
Broadway hits for Romberg (after
The Student Prince (1924) and
The Desert Song (1926)) written in the style of Viennese operetta. It spawned a number of revivals and two film versions, and it is still played by light opera companies. The piece turned out to be "Broadway's last hit operetta", as World War II and the Golden Age of musicals approached.