Word: operetta
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Unlike its Italian counterparts, The Beggar's Opera thrives on provincialism rather than pomp. British poet John Gay first wrote the operetta to chide government corruption and provide jobs for the vaudevillians displaced by sopranos and baritones from across the Channel. He felt that simple folk ballads sung with a minimum of gesticulation and vibretto could be as effective as full-range opera. With some perceptive acting, imaginative directing and photography the film version of Gay's work just about proves he was right...
...scheme for adding smell to the sight & sound of movies and TV, and an interest in three other music circuses around the country. His plans for Orpheus are ambitious: he hopes to open it on Broadway this winter. One of the hazards: another version of the same operetta planned for this season by Showman Billy Rose (see THEATER), who was never a fire-eater but can be counted on to produce a pretty hot Hades...
...first-rate cast (stars: Alec Guinness. Irene Worth), are as surprising as the event itself. For the real hit is not the famous, battle-tested King Richard III, but the rarely produced All's Well That Ends Well, one of Shakespeare's lesser comedies, a kind of operetta without music...
Gilbert and Sullivan's comic operetta "Iolanthe," will be the next feature of the Winthrop House Musical Society, Allan D. Miller '55, producer of the presentation, announced last night...
...operetta will be presented in the Winthrop House Junior Common Room on April...