Word: fledermaus
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...pastel waltzes of the Strauss operetta Die Fledermaus† were interrupted to report: "Hostile aircraft have turned westward." The operetta resumed with the aria, What Happiness to Forget What Cannot Be Changed...
...immediately he landed a comic refugee bit part in something called Cue for Passion. Knowing hardly a word of English, Karlweis learned his lines "like a parrot," got wonderful notices. He got them again as the Prince in the enormously successful revival of Johann Strauss's Rosalinda (Die Fledermaus). By then his English was fine. Chuckles he slyly: "As the French say, 'The pillow is the best teacher...
...Miracle (1924), Jewish Max Reinhardt was reduced to Paris poverty in the early days of Nazidom, made a Hollywood comeback in 1935 with his first & only movie, the $1,300,000 A Midsummer Night's Dream. As he died his Rosalinda (Johann Strauss's Die Fledermaus) was entering its second smashing revival year on Broadway...
...first three: Johann Strauss's Rosalinda (Die Fledermaus); Sigmund Romberg's The Student Prince; Rudolf Friml's The Vagabond King...
...Skin of Our Teeth started ten thousand arguments, sold a quarter of a million seats and won the Pulitzer Prize. Oklahoma!, musicomedy's least orthodox offering in years, was also its most charming and successful. As Rosalinda, Johann Strauss's 6g-year-old, waltz-drenched Die Fledermaus became a surprise smash...