Word: operettas
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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During vacation the Hasty Pudding Club presented its annual spring theatricals in New York. The operetta-an adaptation of Sheridan's "Duenna"-was well received, and the pretty little theatre of the Berkeley Lyceum was crowded each evening by enthusiastic admirers of Harvard and their friends. The stage of the Lyceum is so small that the choruses were serionsly hampered, and consequently did not appear to the best advantage. However, the performers did themselves more than justice in spite of all obstacles. To quote from one of the best New York newspapers: "It is hard to point out any weak...
...comic operetta will probably be given in Lyceum Hall at some time late in the spring, the libretto of which is to be written by Prof. Greenough and the music by Prof. Allen...
...Mermaid; or, the Curse of Cape Cod," a nautical comic operetta, by two Boston gentlemen, will be played at the Hollis Street Theatre on Friday afternoon, April 27, for the benefit of the Marine Biological Laboratory...
...Gilbert has written the libretto of a new operetta, a burlesque on society life, and has sent it to Sullivan at Monte Carlo, who will compose the music for it. It is probable that the opera will be brought out in New York next fall...
...Delphic Literary Society, Swarthmore, gave an operetta in two acts called "The Bohn of Contention," recently...