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| 1997 | Royale Theatre Original. April 3, 1997 · Wayne Cilento | 109 performances |
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Among the most popular of these were Oscar Straus’s A Waltz Dream, Leo Fall’s The Dollar Princess, Straus’s The Chocolate Soldier, Heinrich Reinhardt’s The Spring Maid, Johann Strauss’s The Merry Countess (Die Fiedermaus), Lehar’s The Count of Luxembourg, Emmerich Kalman’s Sari, and Edmund Eysler’s The Blue Paradise (w… book:broadway-musicals-show-by-show-green-stanley-green-kay-5th-ed-rev-and-updated-by#p39
The opening production on October 26, 1903 was an appropriately lavish staging of Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream featuring music by Mendelssohn and star turns by popular performers of that day, Nat C. Goodwin and William Farnum. book:at-this-theatre-100-years-of-broadway-shows-stories-and-botto-louis-viagas-rober#p25
In 1903 the New Amsterdam had opened with a live production of A Midsummer Nights Dream. Its first film was Max Reinhardts movie of the Shakespeare comedy. book:at-this-theatre-100-years-of-broadway-shows-stories-and-botto-louis-viagas-rober#p34
Next came Victor Herbert's last show, The Dream Girl (1924), a fantasy that involved Fay Bainter and Wilter Woolf in one of those "dream" plots which takes them back to the fifteenth century. book:at-this-theatre-100-years-of-broadway-shows-stories-and-botto-louis-viagas-rober#p143
In 1971, the Royal Shakespeare Company's production of A Midsummer Nights Dream, directed by Peter Brook, provided great fun; book:at-this-theatre-100-years-of-broadway-shows-stories-and-botto-louis-viagas-rober#p161
Elmer Rice's enchanting fantasy, Dream Girl, was written for his wife, Betty Field, and she gave a captivating performance as a woman who enlivened her dull life with vivid daydreams. She was ably supported by Wendell Corey, Evelyn Varden, and Edmon Ryan, and the cheerful comedy ran for 348 performances. book:at-this-theatre-100-years-of-broadway-shows-stories-and-botto-louis-viagas-rober#p225
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