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Musique: Richard Tauber • Paroles: Fred F. Tysh • Walter Ellis • Livret: Walter Ellis • Production originale: 1 version mentionnée
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Genèse: This had been on a provincial tour for some time, including a Christmas season at Edinburgh, and despite its great success outside London, the West End audiences were polite rather than enthusiastic. Tauber had a magnificent tenor voice, but he was rather portly, had a heavy accent in his spoken dialogue and was not a very impressive actor. Provincial audiences adored him, but this show only managed a two and a half month run, ending on May 1st after 95 performances before returning to its successful tour. It did return to the West End for one week in February 1944.
Résumé: Jacob Bray is longing to have his opera performed, and things look promising when the star soprano,Nancy Gibbs sings extracts to her wealthy lover, Lord Ranelagh, and he agrees to put up the money. During rehearsals Jacob falls in love with Nancy, and this soon becomes an open secret in the theatre world, and when word gets to Lord Ranelagh he asks Nancy to pull out of the performance. She refuses but at the last moment hears that Ranelagh has been injured in a riding accident, and informs Jacob that her love for Ranelagh must come before the opera. Faced with losing both his love and the production of his opera, a distraught Jacob is saved when young Mary, the backstage milliner, is able to step in, take over the leading role and lead everything to a happy ending.
Création: 17/2/1943 - Shaftesbury Theatre (Londres) - 95 représ.