Word: operettas
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...result, all sorts of plays have been presented on Harvard property, in theaters and House dining rooms. Among them have been a leggy operetta that set one observer talking about "a restoration of paganism"; a steaming drama of the torn-undershirt school; a lurid melodrama of rape, murder, and adultery; and a play about a young man who accuses his mother of making her bed "a couch for luxury and damned incest...
Virginia Loomis, whom Brown rejects in the first operetta and marries in the second, has a small but pretty voice. Like Lewin she has a perfect manner, and she is very pleasant to look...
Both productions are well staged, lavishly costumed, and have very good sets. They serve as object lessons in the art of staging operetta on a tiny stage...
Claman has produced three other plays, including the current Gilbert and Sullivan operetta "The Gondoliers." All three leading actors in the production have had extensive experience, Claman said...
Vienna is showing signs of resigning itself to the American era (the Vienna Conservatory of Music even offers a course in American musical comedy). Moreover, incurable operetta addicts are beginning to pretend that there really is not so much difference between the old and the new. Said one dreamy rationalizer: "I can see it all. Let's say Frank Butler is really a Hungarian cavalry officer who had to leave his country-some disgraceful duel over an actress. Annie is really the daughter of a millionaire Chicago meat packer. Call the whole thing The Duchess of Chicago...