The Blu Zane version is based on sketches which Offenbach would have corrected during rehearsals. Their “production” isn’t good. Meeting them two dandies & finding them drunk with Métella (sic) I would have said “Connais pas” (“Don’t know you!” at the station! There’s only one new item I would possibly include. I was asked to include it in my faithful translations of the main versions (Bote/Boosey): the after the party (It’s not posing as a hotel that’s Gardefeu’s) Male Ensemble but “Danish” needs to be changed to “Swedish”. I love the original five act version but it needs to be slightly abridged. I also faithfully translated the four act version for a production. There was even a between versions version! the Jacques Offenbach Society