WALTZES FROM VIENNA Music by Johann Strauss (Father & Son): Selected and arranged by Erich Wolfgang Korngold and Julius Bittner. Book and lyrics by A.M. Willner, Heinz Reichert and Ernst Marischka. Stadttheater, Vienna - 30 October, 1930. Alhambra Theatre, London (adaptation by Desmond Carter, Caswel Garth, G.H. Clutsam and Hubert Griffiths) - 17 August, 1931 Center Theatre, New York (adaptation by Moss Hart, Frank Tours and Robert Russell Bennet - as The Great Waltz) - 22 September, 1934 SYNOPSIS This story of the tension between Strauss the elder and Strauss the younger, engendered by the son's ambitions to succeed his father as the Waltz King of Vienna, is delightfully woven around a score which is a collection of some of the greatest light music ever composed. It tells of the star-crossed romance between young Johann and the attractive daughter of an engagingly-eccentric pastry-cook, and involves a helpfullyintriguing Countess and other endearing characters. Climaxed of course by the immortal "Blue Danube", this is a feast of the music that set the whole world dancing and 'did more good for humanity than a hundred thousand doctors'. PRINCIPALS: - 3 female, 8 male (3 non-singing) Johann Strauss I Johann Strauss II ('Schani') Hieronymus Ebeseder, a confectioner Therese, his daughter Kathi Pollinger, his sister Franzi, Tini and Mali Pollinger, her daughters Ferdinand Wessely, a master tailor Leopold Wessely, his son Countess Olga Barranskaja Prince Sascha Gogol, an embassy official Captain von Hohenau Lieutenant Sternau Gottfried Amadaus Drechsler, leader of the orchestra of Johann Strauss I Dr Sebastian Brandl, critic of Bäuerles Theaterzeitung Karl Friedrich Hirsch, known as 'Lampel Hirsch' Florian Dommayer, a landlord Stefan Kreider, a cashier at Dommayer's Cyrill, the Countess's footman Georg Homolka, a sergeant Fanny Wiesinger Frau Kratochwill, landlady of an apartment block Pepi, Ebeseder's apprentice A student, a stagecoachman, a gentleman, a guest, members of the public INSTRUMENTATION: flute, oboe, 2 clarinets, bassoon, 2 horns, 2 trumpets, 2 trombones, percussion, harp, strings
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