Also credited on2 works
These come off the person record, which names a work and not a production. So we can say this name is attached to the work and we cannot say which staging, or in what capacity. For a composer or a writer that is the whole career we hold; there is no cast list to find them in.
In the literature8 passages
- Die Lustige Witwe (“The Merry Widow ”, 1905) was originally offered to composer Richard Heuberger (1850-1914), who had enjoyed some success in 1898 with Opera Ball , but he failed to provide a satisfactory score. The commission was then offered to a young Hungarian musical director, Franz Lehár (1870-1948), who had already enjoyed some su…ebooks/Atkey, Mel/Million Miles from Broadway_ Musical Theatre Beyond New York and London, A - Mel Atkey.txt
- The setting for The Merry Widow was the Paris embassy of “Pontevedro”, a thinly disguised Montenegro. For Lehár, this was an opportunity to add some Balkan musical colour, although some Montenegrin students were less than thrilled to have their homeland made the object of fun.ebooks/Atkey, Mel/Million Miles from Broadway_ Musical Theatre Beyond New York and London, A - Mel Atkey.txt
- The Merry Widow ’s success was immediate. A London production opened in 1907, and it soon spread across Europe and North America. (Its influence on the later American musical is unmistakable: listen to the “Maxime’s” sequence, then listen to the verse leading into “Shall We Dance?” from The King and I .) With some of the money he was now…ebooks/Atkey, Mel/Million Miles from Broadway_ Musical Theatre Beyond New York and London, A - Mel Atkey.txt
- [51] While The Magic Flute and The Merry Widow are popularly known in the English-speaking world by their translated names, people seem happy to refer to Die Fledermaus by its German title, perhaps because producers knew that if they called it The Winged Rodent , box office queues would evaporate like a puddle in a heat wave. Similarly, C…ebooks/Atkey, Mel/Million Miles from Broadway_ Musical Theatre Beyond New York and London, A - Mel Atkey.txt
- A large percentage of Broadway shows were adapted into films. Among the highlights of the adaptation subgenre are Ernst Lubitsch’s The Merry Widow (MGM 1934), the series of eight freely adapted operettas (and the occasional musical comedy) with Jeanette MacDonald and Nelson Eddy from 1935 to 1942, and On the Town (produced by Arthur Freed…ebooks/Block, Geoffrey/Enchanted Evenings_The Broadway Musical from 'Show Boat' to Sondheim and Lloyd Webber - Geoffrey Block.txt
- Many critics noted the scheduled two-week run of Brigadoon was too short (City Center was already booked for its next offering, a revival of The Merry Widow ), and they hoped the musical could be extended should another theatre become available. And, sure enough, the out-of-the-way and refurbished Adelphi Theatre was ready for bookings af…ebooks/Dietz, Dan/Complete Book of 1950s Broadway Musicals, The - Dan Dietz.txt
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