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...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...
Premiered at the Shubert Theater Monday night, "Mr. Strauss Goes to Boston" offered at most a pleasing array of music, humor, and color. Leonard Levinson's flimsy book was rescued to some extent by the lively and semi-original three-quarter time music of Robert Stolz, who conducted a well-trained and inspired orchestra. It was, however, the superb coloratura soprano of Virginia MacWatters which turned the otherwise insipid show into what might well...
With several obvious deletions, removal of some dialogue and most, if not all, of the opening dream sequence of Act II, "Mr. Strauss Goes to Boston" should have a prosperous run on Broadway, that is, as long as Miss MacWatters and Mr. Stolz remain with the company...
Johann Strauss: Waltzes (Robert Stolz and orchestra; Decca, 8 sides). Blue Danube, Southern Roses and the others played as written-with bounce. Performance and recording: good...
...Jackson (see cut) and Lina Abar-banell, in hats reminiscent of poultry dinners, sang it for a Broadway run of 421 performances. In the orchestra pit, conducting its willowy waltzes with a hand dipped in authentic Viennese schmalz, was the oldest Merry Widower of them all, bald, paunchy Robert Stolz, who raised a baton on the first Vienna production...