Word: operetta
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...modest brick courtyard west of Central Park. Its stage is the home of the gifted Standwells, whose repertory troupe combines high-comedy acting with stylish singing and sheer charm. They all sing, they all play the piano, and they all perform in everything from Shakespeare and Wilde to Viennese operetta and musical comedies. This month they began their eleventh consecutive season...
...were out of tune, the winds were loud and over-represented, the whole piece was taken at a ridiculously slow pace, and nobody seemed to want to come in on cue. This interpretation (if you can call it that) of one of the liveliest overtures in the literature of operetta left the viewer ready to walk...
Remember The Great Victor Herbert? Or Hi Diddle Diddle! Or how about Never Put It in Writing? Well, Andrew Stone has done it again with Song of Norway. Adapted by Stone from the highly successful 1944 Broadway operetta and filmed in Scandinavia and England at a cost of about $4,000,000, Song is a wildly romanticized biography of Edvard Grieg, once hailed as the "Chopin of the North." By comparison, The Sound of Music is not only trenchant social documentary but a symphonic tour de force...
...European decadence and its relationship to the rise of Nazi Germany. The same theme recently caused a bit more flesh to crawl in The Damned, possibly because the decadence was depicted with a certain sinister conviction. In Prince's film, decadence functions as a backdrop to a silly operetta...
...GILBERT and Sullivan operetta is like sex: everyone has his favorite way of doing it, and no other way quite satisfies him. Furthermore, watching other people do it has a way of being very boring. Until last night, I thought that my favorite way of doing the Mikado was the classic D'Oyly Carte Company production which starred Martyn Gree. Now, I'm not so sure...