WAVE ME GOODBYE

Wave Me Goodbye is a musical play with book, lyrics and music by Herbert Appleman, based on the World War II novel, The Americanization of Emily, by William Bradford Huie.

Set in England during May-June 1944, Wave Me Goodbye is about an American naval officer, Lt. Commander Jim Madison, and a young English widow, Emily Barham, who meet and fall in love shortly before D-Day.

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“The Whole Backstage shone as bright as a star falling on Alabama with the world premiere of Wave Me Goodbye.”
— Wayne Greenshaw, Advertiser-Glen, Guntersville, AL

“Congratulations! Wave Me Goodbye was a tremendous success!”
— Martha Huie, author’s widow

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Unlike the movie version, written by Paddy Chayefsky, which superimposed the Vietnam War on Emily and created an anti-war polemic that was false to the experience of most American fighting men in World War II, Wave Me Goodbye is historically accurate and does justice to those men.