Word: operetta
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...perennial U.S. wedding hymn, Oh, Promise Me, comes, as younger people often fail to realize, from Robin Hood, an operetta of the Mauve Decade. Robin Hood was revived last week on Broadway after 12 years, in the spirit of its original Chicago production by "The Bostonians...
...production is a cross between a Gilbert and Sullivan operetta and "Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs." The chorus of tinkers resembles the famous Disney creation, while Sir Guy, who usurps Robin Hood's rightful inheritance, and the eagle-eyed Sheriff of Nottingham are taken straight from Gilbert and Sullivan. The combination is effective and entertaining...
Despite the success of Blossom Time (Franz Schubert) and The Great Waltz (Johann Strauss) the rather obvious idea of building an operetta around the life of Norwegian Composer Edvard Hagerup Grieg apparently occurred to nobody until a year ago. Then it suddenly burgeoned in the brain of Edwin Lester, director of the Los Angeles Civic Light Opera Association. He proceeded to turn out one of the most lavish and expensive ($110,000) productions the Association has ever staged. Song of Norway opened in Los Angeles last fortnight and by last week, it was looking like...
Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein II, for the Theater Guild operetta smash hit Oklahoma...
When Jacques Offenbach's operetta La Belle Hélène was first performed in Paris in the days of Empress Eugenie. Prince Metternich took one horrified gander at its neo-Homeric ribaldry, primly led his wife to the nearest exit. But La Belle Hélène outlived Metternich. Last week, in a new version called Helen Goes to Troy, a lavish $140,000 Manhattan production that seemed likely to become Broadway's latest smash-hit musical, it was still going strong...