Imagine a world that persistently rewards the rich and powerful while immiserating the masses. Imagine an international paternalist cartel that
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The overwhelming and instant success of Erik Charell’s operetta spectacle Im weißen Rössl at Berlin’s Großes Schauspielhaus (the so-called “Theater
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Theatrical mythology has been curiously and undeservedly kind to some folk. Miss Tucker from Ohio went from failure to failure
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A fortunate series of simultaneous anniversaries—the 300th of the founding of New Orleans, the 75th of the New Orleans Opera,
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Although they worked together as a trio on only five shows over seven years, the influence of “Bolton, Wodehouse, and
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Victor Herbert (b Dublin, 1 February 1859; d New York, 24 May 1924). The grandson of Samuel Lover, the novelist,
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Commissioned by producers Julian Mitchell and Fred Hamlin to follow up their 1902 success with the fairytale spectacular The Wizard
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America’s popular music tradition is often referred to as the “Great American Songbook,” a national heritage. A focus on its
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Victor Hollaender described his first American sojourn and the German-American scene of Milwaukee in his memoirs, which were published in
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Often, in earlier times, quoted as “the first landmark in the history of the American musical theatre”, the 1866 extravaganza
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In 2016, The Black Crook celebrates its 150th anniversary, marking 150 years of the American Musical. To commemorate the sesquicentennial,
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Adolf Philipp (b Lübeck, 29 January 1864; d New York, 30 July 1936) was the eclectic leading light of the
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Why is the upcoming revival of Shuffle Along, or, The Making of the Musical Sensation of 1921 and All That
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Who were the truly instrumental people who caused America to develop the largest and most influential entertainment industry in the
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When the ambitious young soprano of the famed Bostonians company, Alice Nielsen, decided to break away from the group and
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This week-end, the Budapest Operetta Theatre is hosting a conference on Die Csardasfürstin, to celebrate the 100th anniversary of that
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In their 2015 summer season, the Ohio Light Opera presented the original stage version of Cole Porter’s Can-Can. It’s a
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The New York Public Library is devoting its current “Musical of the Month” to Emmerich Kálmán’s Golden Dawn, a show
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You will recall that the Ohio Light Opera presented Lerner & Loewe’s Brigadoon as part of their 2015 summer season.
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There is a renewed interest in operetta internationally, not just the French and Austrian variety of the genre, but also
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The Beastly Bombing, or A Terrible Tale of Terrorists Tamed by the Tangles of True Love is an operetta in
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A piece in the vein of the fairytale burlesques of Victorian times, Into the Woods brought together some familiar nursery
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One of the most successful romantic musical plays of the 1920s, Show Boat (Ziegfeld Theater, New York, 27 December 1927)
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Australia’s most successful ever international manufacturer of musical plays was born Trinity Bay, Newfoundland, Canada 10 May 1842. The grandson of
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He was one of the “hottest” male stars in operetta history, he made ladies in the audience swoon with his
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The Ohio Light Opera is certainly good for a surprise. Of course, they are renowned for presenting rare shows, unperformed
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Victor Herbert’s 1911 grand opera Natoma – not performed in its original form for over a century – was accorded
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Fern von Europa und vom europäischen Markt vollkommen unbeachtet, kommt am 29. Juli 1930 in den USA die Verfilmung von
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Naughty Marietta was written as a commission from impresario Oscar Hammerstein, a transfuge from the world of opera, for a
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The Student Prince was not the first musical to be based on Meyer-Förster’s 1901 Studentenstück Alt Heidelberg (Berliner Theater 22
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The operetta fashioned by Robert Wright and George Forrest from the melodies of Norwegian composer Edvard Grieg – hugely popular
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The Prague-born Friml studied music in his native city from a young age, and made his early career principally as
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James Montgomery’s 1910 play The Aviator was put to musical use seven years on by its author and the now
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The most internationally successful and the most enduring of Sigmund Romberg’s long line of romantic musical plays, The Desert Song
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Colonel Savage’s enormously successful novel His Official Wife was leaped upon by a horde of theatrical adapters, filmed by Hollywood
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Although the Broadway musical theatre had established itself worldwide with its light-handed song-and-dance shows — Going Up, Irene, Mercenary Mary,
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