Word: operetta
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Ruddigore. With his painstaking productions of lolanthe and The Pirates of Penzance, Winthrop Ames showed Manhattan how Gilbert & Sullivan ought to be staged. Producer Lawrence J. Anhalt, unmindful of the lesson, has made a sluggish, tasteless revival of this operetta. An unfortunate evening is partly redeemed by Craig Campbell as Richard Dauntless, by William Danforth and Herbert Waterous as two of the multitudinous Sir Murgatroyds...
...producers announce it to Boston as the continental equivalent of what is known in contemporary parlance as a wow. And now "Katja" turns out to be something much less than a wow. One can mention two possible causes for this decline and fall of what is evidently a good operetta in other places; one is the cast which, with the exception of an energetic young lad with a flare for burlesque; a large sized edition of Lenore Ulric, who flings herself about with enjoyable abandon; and a blonde variety of Ann Pennington, who possesses all the well known Pennington attributes...
...Circus Princess. Invariably, inevitably, Shubert operettas record the travail of royalty romancing incognito, the while platoons of chorus girls in superlatively gorgeous colors stamp across brilliant backgrounds. The Circus Princess is "the most pretentious operetta ever presented by the Messrs. Shubert." What happens...
...programs range from rhapsody or movements from a symphony to waltzes marches, a sugary trifle, or the operetta of the hour. The scope is broad and appeals to an extensive public...
...musical comedy again forces its way into the limelight at the expense of the legitimate drama with the announcement made late last night by the Harvard Dramatic Club that "The Taming of the Shrew," its spring production, would be rearranged in order to make an operetta, with a full chorus of eight dancing girls and a male chorus of the same number. Song hits from most of the leading musical comedies on the stage today have been skillfully woven into this remodelling and hardly recognizable comedy of Shakespeare's, and the cast has been slightly altered in order...