Word: operettas
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Music In the Air (music by Jerome Kern; book & lyrics by Oscar Hammerstein 2nd; produced by Reginald Hammerstein) still has what it had when first produced in 1932-an extremely engaging Jerome Kern score. It no longer has very much else. Even in 1932, it employed old-fashioned European operetta largely as a model, if sometimes as a butt; its best chance in revival was to capture the nostalgic charm of an unabashed period piece. But as revived, the show as badly lacks bouquet as the production lacks style...
...difference between "Fledermaus" and more recent musical comedy is that "Fledermaus" has better music. Strauss' tunes are the most singable, danceable, and memorable to hit Boston in a long, long time. This operetta is more than just the best show in town--it is probably the best thing Boston will see all year...
...done two widely spaced musicals-Du Barry Was a Lady in 1939, Billy Rose's less successful Seven Lively Arts in 1944. But styles in musical comedy had changed; the Big Comedian had almost been forced out of business by operetta-like shows such as South Pacific and Oklahoma...
Gold Net. The man behind Macao's prosperity is a shrewd, wiry Portuguese-Dutch-Malay named Pedro J. Lobo, who runs Asia's largest gold market in Macao and in fact runs Macao also. Lobo lives well, and in his spare time composes music (including an operetta called Cruel Separation). Lobo's title is economic director of the colony. On each ounce of gold, most of which arrives on Catalina flying boats owned by Lobo, he levies two taxes: an official one of 35? for the Macao treasury, another of $2.10 for himself. This has netted Lobo...
Galatea, the old story of Pygmalion and the beautiful statue come to life, was done in the classic style of Viennese operetta. Its star: blonde Soprano Virginia Haskins, of Manhattan's City Opera. Wearing a Grecian gown slit nearly to the hip, she romped through the score with lyric grace, fine acting and plenty of thigh. Menotti's brassy Amelia, with the Met's Eleanor Steber, kept up the hoyden theme. Soprano Steber's rich, gusty voice was just right for the girl who has made up her mind to go to the dance, though Steber...