Word: operetta
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...wife and daughter back East. For about a year they stayed with Anne's family at Hewlett, L.I., and the Hewlett tribe still talks about the alarums and excursions that centered around Bucky and his one-man-band personality. He might insist that the occasion called for an operetta, and no one would be allowed to leave until he had composed the words and music and performed...
Supper turns the musical-comedy clock back to operetta, costumed in My Fair Lady style and set in London, where a royal delegation has arrived from the mythical kingdom of Carpathia for the coronation of George V. José Ferrer is a middle-aging, sleep-around prince, though he acts more like a wooden horse. His fancy, his fury, and his fate is to seduce a visiting American showgirl (Florence Henderson), a sunny birdbrain incubated in Wisconsin. Between Ferrer's dead-pained expression and Henderson's unvaryingly cheery smile, the pair manage to drive away all thoughts...
Fans of Gilbert and Sullivan on no account will want to miss seeing the G & S Players' production of The Gondoliers, or the King of Barataria, but they may come away from it slightly puzzled. The operetta abounds in happy lyrics and exquisite corn. Brilliant costuming and scenery set the stage for some moments of first rate singing and acting. Yet because a variety of things are done standardly, a handful of performers, rather than the whole production, make the evening outstanding...
...hand kissing with fervor and frequency unmatched in their history. After World War II, the custom seemed in decline. But today, men of virtually every class and calling on the Continent dive for distaff knuckles as assiduously, if not always so expertly, as do the courtiers in a Lehar operetta...
...Birdie. This adolescent operetta loses a lot in translation from stage to screen. Ann-Margret, as the girl from Sweet Apple, Ohio, who gets involved with a mush-mouthed rock-'n'-roller named Conrad Birdie, can't fool anybody into believing that she is 16 years old. But then she doesn't really...