Also credited on12 works
The Blue Paradise
Maytime
Sinbad
Blossom Time
The Student Prince In Heidelberg
The Desert Song
Rosalie
The New Moon
Up in Central Park
The Girl in the Pink Tights
East Wind
Poor Little Ritz Girl
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In the literature8 passages
- 115 The “most successful operetta composer we have” and the “highly successful librettist” who had approached Cain (in 1940) were Sigmund Romberg and Oscar Hammerstein II (see Hoopes 1982, p. 366), so Bernstein had reason to be flattered by Cain's positive response to his request for permission to base an opera on Serenade .ebooks/Bernstein, Leonard/Leonard Bernstein Letters, The - Leonard Bernstein.txt
- This is how Follies went all performance long. Sondheim provided thrilling numbers that beautifully evoked the songwriters of yore from Sigmund Romberg (“One More Kiss”) to Jerome Kern (“Loveland”). In between these glories, however, Tony voters always had to return to the headache-inducing troubles between Phyllis and Ben and Buddy and S…ebooks/Filichia, Peter/Strippers, Showgirls, and Sharks - Peter Filichia.txt
- FOSTER HIRSCH: Americans have been so wonderful in creating musicals. You can go back to the early decades of the century—the likes of Sigmund Romberg, Jerome Kern, George Gershwin, Richard Rodgers and Lorenz Hart, Cole Porter. Although the books were primitive, maybe hopeless, you had Al Jolson singing Irving Berlin, George Gershwin.ebooks/Frommer, Myrna Katz & Frommer, Harvey/It Happened on Broadway_ An Oral History of the Great White Way - Myrna Katz Frommer & Harvey Frommer.txt
- In 1954, The Girl in Pink Tights , a Broadway musical with a score by Sigmund Romberg (his last) and Leo Robin, was loosely based on circumstances surrounding the production of The Black Crook . The cast was headed by Jeanmaire, Charles Goldner, Brenda Lewis, and David Atkinson, and the show ran for 115 performances. Applause (1985).ebooks/Green, Stanley/Broadway Musicals, Show By Show - Seventh Edition - Stanley Green & Cary Ginell.txt
- The fourth longest running book musical of the 1910’s, The Blue Paradise gave Sigmund Romberg his first chance to compose the kind of sentimental, romantic songs with which he would become identified. (His total Broadway output — including shows for which he shared the writing assignment — was a record 57 productions.) Adapted from Ein Ta…ebooks/Green, Stanley/Broadway Musicals, Show By Show - Seventh Edition - Stanley Green & Cary Ginell.txt
- Maytime established Sigmund Romberg as Victor Herbert’s successor as the leading creator of sentimental operettas. The musical, with such pieces as “Will You Remember?” and “The Road to Paradise,” became New York’s most popular attraction during World War I, even though, ironically, it was based on a German operetta, Wie Einst im Mai. In…ebooks/Green, Stanley/Broadway Musicals, Show By Show - Seventh Edition - Stanley Green & Cary Ginell.txt
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