1940-50s Era New York City The Merry Widow Operetta Program John F Walters Co---

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Check it out...Here's a unique ORIGINAL 8 1/2" wide by 11" long multi-paged program from the 1940-50s era John F. Walters company performance of the legendary staged operetta production of "The Merry Widow" in New York City. Front cover features a great vintage image of a dancing couple titled: "The Merry Widow. Souvenir Program Twenty-Five Cents" on front cover -The program is full of lengthy text, info and GREAT photos about the production and the stars inside! Program shows wear and soiling consistent with age and normal use, but still, how many of these survived in any condition? What a great VINTAGE item ready for display. This is an ORIGINAL item, NOT A REPRODUCTION item! Postage information is listed at the bottom-$ 6.95 postage is required.
1940-50s Era New York City The Merry Widow Operetta Program John F Walters Co---
1940-50s Era New York City The Merry Widow Operetta Program John F Walters Co---
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Description
Check it out...Here's a unique ORIGINAL 8 1/2" wide by 11" long multi-paged program from the 1940-50s era John F. Walters company performance of the legendary staged operetta production of "The Merry Widow" in New York City. Front cover features a great vintage image of a dancing couple titled: "The Merry Widow. Souvenir Program Twenty-Five Cents" on front cover -The program is full of lengthy text, info and GREAT photos about the production and the stars inside! Program shows wear and soiling consistent with age and normal use, but still, how many of these survived in any condition? What a great VINTAGE item ready for display.
Here's some info on the operetta:
The Merry Widow (German: Die lustige Witwe) is an operetta by the Austro-Hungarian composer Franz Lehár. The librettists, Viktor Léon and Leo Stein, based the story – concerning a rich widow, and her countrymen's attempt to keep her money in the principality by finding her the right husband – on an 1861 comedy play, L'attaché d'ambassade (The Embassy Attaché) by Henri Meilhac. The operetta has enjoyed extraordinary international success since its 1905 premiere in Vienna and continues to be frequently revived and recorded. Film and other adaptations have also been made. Well-known music from the score includes the "Vilja Song", "Da geh' ich zu Maxim" ("You'll Find Me at Maxim's"), and the "Merry Widow Waltz". The operetta was first performed at the Theater an der Wien in Vienna on 30 December 1905 with Mizzi Günther as Hanna, Louis Treumann (de) as Danilo, Siegmund Natzler as Baron Zeta and Annie Wünsch as Valencienne. It was Lehár's first major success, becoming internationally the best-known operetta of its era. Lehár subsequently made changes for productions in London in 1907 (two new numbers), and Berlin in the 1920s, but the definitive version is basically that of the original production. The operetta toured Austria and in 1906 enjoyed productions in Hamburg's Neues Operetten-Theater, Berlin's Berliner Theater (de) (starring Gustav Matzner as Danilo and Marie Ottmann as Hanna, who made the first complete recording in 1907), and Budapest's Magyar Színház. Its English adaptation by Basil Hood, with lyrics by Adrian Ross, became a sensation in London in 1907 and ran for an extraordinary 778 performances, followed by extensive British tours. The first performance in Paris was at the Théâtre Apollo on 28 April 1909. Many international productions, as well as revivals followed, as did sequels, spoofs and film versions. The operetta originally had no overture; Lehár wrote one for the Vienna Philharmonic to perform at his 70th birthday concert in April 1940.
This is an ORIGINAL item, NOT A REPRODUCTION item!
Postage information is listed at the bottom-$ 6.95 postage is required.
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