Word: operetta
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Bustin' out all over with operetta romances and sub-romances, misunderstandings, impersonations and sundry other Dutch-village doings, The Red Mill utterly eludes summarizing. Dorothy Stone is still light on her feet. In the main comedy roles, Michael O'Shea and Eddie Foy Jr. save some of the long, dusty stretches between songs. The songs themselves-Whistle It, In Old New York, Because You're You, Isle of Our Dreams, Every Day Is Ladies' Day With Me-are pleasant both as melodies and memories. The Red Mill is far from a full evening's entertainment...
...Strauss Goes to Boston (music by Robert Stolz & Johann Strauss Jr.; lyrics by Robert Sour; book by Leonard L. Levinson; produced by Felix Brentano) opened Broadway's 1945-46 season without letting in much fresh air. An operetta about Johann Strauss (George Rigaud) headlining the great Boston Jubilee of 1872 and breaking hearts on Beacon Hill, it muffs the three real opportunities provided by the story. Far from conveying any of the devilish Strauss charm it babbles about, the book doesn't even billow with good lush operetta sentiment; it is just crushingly dull...
...bomb-battered city was not the old Vienna. Wrote Gedye: "It was like walking onto a stage where the scenery of some gay Viennese operetta had been dismantled, the vivid costumes of the artists replaced by the dull garb of the scene-shifters. The curtain has fallen on Vienna's operetta existence, and it will be long before it rises again...
Marinka (music by Emmerich Kalman; book and lyrics by George Marion Jr. & Karl Farkas; produced by Jules J. Leventhal & Harry Howard) is the cinema Mayerling in routine operetta form-which means Mayerling with a happy ending but some fairly unhappy flourishes en route...
...high romance. It is told without style or period elegance, in a lurching effort to reconcile antics with atmosphere. As a result, the Alt Wien of 1888 and the Broadway of 1945 constantly collide, and neither wins out. The whole thing merely smacks of something in between the two-operetta the world over, circa...