Word: offenbacher
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...attractions are Broadway shows (with good second-string casts) such as Gentlemen Prefer Blondes and Call Me Madam, and such vintage operettas as Sweethearts, New Moon and Die Fledermaus. Last week, the Music Circus put on view a frothy revival of Orpheus in the Underworld, by Jacques Offenbach. The new title: To Hell with Orpheus...
Excursion to Hades. Offenbach was a kind of 19th century, Parisian Cole Porter, only better. A superb musical satirist, he could also turn out sentimental waltzes and respectable grand opera, but his specialty was cancan, with its piston-like rhythm and irrepressible gaiety. Orpheus contains some of his best satire and his best cancan tunes. The libretto used at Lambertville (by the late Ring Lardner, with additional lyrics by Edward Eager) tries to modernize the original. The result is stained Varsity-Show humor, but still...
...Offenbach: Le Vie Parisienne (Jennie Tourel; Columbia Symphony Orchestra conducted by Jean Morel; Columbia). A saucy score culled from several operas, with Tourel's fine mezzo-soprano, gaily modernized scoring and fine acoustics...
...Opera Theater (Thurs. 11p.m., NBC). Offenbach's R.S.V.P. (an English version of M. Choufleuri-), with Larry Weber, Virginia Haskins, Paul Franke...
...Engineers are "mostly apolitical." They "try to accommodate themselves to their surroundings . . . will gradually come to like Gershwin and Offenbach . . . The best minds among them reserve an hour a week or so for some private effort . . . modern poetry, ancient history, or the anthropology of exotic places...