Also credited on3 works
Dearest Enemy
Gay Divorce
Mlle. Modiste
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In the literature8 passages
- An often overlooked model for American musical theatre is German operetta, particularly the enormously popular Oscar Straus operetta The Chocolate Soldier, an adaptation of Arms and the Man, which Shaw hated because he felt it trivialized his play (a hatred no doubt intensified by his principled nonparticipation in its profits, which were…ebooks/Engel, Lehman/Words with Music_ Creating the Broadway Musical Libretto - Lehman Engel.txt
- Lest anyone think I have singled out one work to ridicule, allow me to refer to The Chocolate Soldier, done here in 1909, also highly successfully, with a run of 296 performances. Here the English songs by Stanislaus Stange began:ebooks/Engel, Lehman/Words with Music_ Creating the Broadway Musical Libretto - Lehman Engel.txt
- Of all the European operettas imported by Broadway producers in the wake of the spectacular success of The Merry Widow , by far the most popular was The Chocolate Soldier. Originally presented in Vienna in 1908 as Der Tapfere Soldat, the musical was adapted from George Bernard Shaw’s play, Arms and the Man, though the author always regret…ebooks/Green, Stanley/Broadway Musicals, Show By Show - Seventh Edition - Stanley Green & Cary Ginell.txt
- “Sweethearts” with Bobby Clark, and “The Chocolate Soldier” with Keith Andes and Frances McCann, also Cicely Courtneidge with Thorley Walters in “Under the Counter,” “Allegro” produced by the Theatre Guild, “Music In My Heart” with Vivienne Segal and Charles Fredericks, and ‘““The Medium”theatre-pdfs/A Pictorial History of the American Theatre, 1860-1985 (Blum).txt
- not well received by the critics, who called it dated, a thin piece of nostalgia reminiscent of Bittersweet, The Chocolate Soldier, and The Desert Song. "Not one good notice," the playwright wrote in his diary, "thetheatre-pdfs/Mary Martin-Broadway Legend (Ronald L. Davis).txt
- The Chocolate Soldier (1909). Libretto: Rudolph Bernauer and Leopold Jacobson; music: Oscar Straus. Operetta whose story is taken from G. B. the Man.theatre-pdfs/McGraw-Hill Encyclopedia of World Drama, v. 3 (I-N).txt
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