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The Blue Paradise

Shows · The Blue Paradise

The Blue Paradise is a musical in a prologue and two acts, with music by Edmund Eysler, Sigmund Romberg and Leo Edwards, lyrics primarily by Herbert Reynolds, and a book by Edgar Smith, based on the operetta Ein Tag im Paradies by Eysler with original text by Leo Stein and Bela Jenbach. The story is set in a Viennese cafe, where a man realizes that he cannot recapture his long lost love.

Opened
1915
Performances
356
Type
Musical
Era
Early
Music: Sigmund Romberg, Edmund EyslerLyrics: Herbert ReynoldsBook: Edgar Smith

Productions1 on Broadway

1915 Casino Theatre Original. August 5, 1915 · J.H. Benrimo 356 performances

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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.) book:broadway-musicals-show-by-show-seventh-edition-stanley-green-cary-ginell#p34

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 Blue Paradise (08/ 05/13; 356 performances) broke the long succession of failures with its score by SIGMUND RomBerG, Edmund Eysler, and Herbert Reynolds. book:broadway-its-history-people-and-places-an-encyclopedia-bloom-ken-1949-2nd-ed-new#p122

The Blue Paradise (8/5/15; 356 performances), with lyrics by Herbert Reynolds; and A World of Pleasure (10/14/15; 116 performances). These shows were all relatively successful, and most made money for the Shuberts. The Blue Paradise contained Romberg’s first hit song, “Auf Wiedersehen.” book:broadway-its-history-people-and-places-an-encyclopedia-bloom-ken-1949-2nd-ed-new#p474

He also worked on adaptations of Central European operettas for Broadway such as The Blue Paradise (1915). book:historical-dictionary-of-the-broadway-musical-volume-22-william-a-everett-paul-r#p59

Hungarian-born Sigmund Romberg ( 1887- 195 1) studied composition in Vienna and worked there as an operetta coach and accompanist before settling in the United States in 1909. Hired as a house composer by the Shubert brothers, he contributed music of all kinds to their various productions. In all, he wrote the music fo… book:showtime-a-history-of-the-broadway-musical-theatre-larry-stempel#p205

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