Rose Briar

Rose Briar is a 1922 play by Booth Tarkington. It is a three-act comedy with two settings and eleven characters. The story concerns a caberet singer who resists a society woman's efforts to lure her into becoming the other woman in a divorce. The title comes from the name of the main character. The play was commissioned from Tarkington by Florenz Ziegfeld, as a vehicle for his wife Billie Burke.

The play was produced and staged by Florenz Ziegfeld, with sets by Joseph Urban, incidental music by Victor Herbert, and one song each by Jerome Kern and Donald McGibeny, both with Tarkington lyrics. It starred Billie Burke, with Frank Conroy, Allan Dinehart, and Julia Hoyt in support. It had tryouts in Wilmington, Delaware, Atlantic City, Baltimore, Buffalo, and Pittsburgh starting in mid-November 1922, before it premiered on Broadway, Christmas Day 1922. It ran through early March 1923, with a common critical opinion being that the Act I caberet scene was more entertaining than the rest of the play.

Billie Burke decided to forgo a tour for Rose Briar. The play was never revived on Broadway, nor adapted for other media, though the original songs Love and the Moon (Kern/Tarkington) and Give Me That Rose (Madame Pompadour) (McGibeny/Tarkington) were released on sheet music and on a phonograph record.