Word: operetta
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Winthrop House's production of "Trial by Jury" by Gilbert and Sullivan has now been in rehearsal for four weeks. Present plans call for production of the operetta on April 29 and 30. Radcliffe students will play the female roles...
Says White: "We're trying to prepare them to become good musical citizens in a community-the kind that can give lessons to Junior, play a concert at the Elks or Kiwanis, organize a group to put on an operetta, make a good living and contribute something to the community...
Thus, during a recent revival at Budapest's Fovarosi Theater of the operetta Countess Maritza (vintage 1924), sang Count Tassilo Endrodi, the impoverished Hungarian nobleman who for the first time in his life has to work for a living. His plaintive song was timely enough to make a lot of Budapest theatergoers squirm. No longer may Hungarian gypsy fiddlers play as they please, nor may Count Endrodi cry into his Tokay with impunity. The Communists have clamped down on nostalgia...
Kraft Theater (Wed. 9 p.m., NBC-TV). Operetta: Hansel and Gretel...
Goldovsky has completely reworked the plot, made a minor character into the operetta's protagonist, and used production devices more familiar in Hollywood than on an opera stage. The music has been orchestrated, but other than that left pretty much alone. The result of these manipulations is an operetta not only delightful to hear, but excellent theater as well...