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Little Mary Sunshine : ウィキペディア英語版 | Little Mary Sunshine
''Little Mary Sunshine'' is a musical that parodies old-fashioned operettas and musicals. The book, music, and lyrics are by Rick Besoyan. The original Off-Broadway production premiered in 1959 in New York City's East Village and ran for 1,143 performances. It was seen briefly in a West End production in 1962 and has become a popular show for amateur and semi-professional groups in the United States and elsewhere. ==Background== ''Little Mary Sunshine'' was conceived and staged as an affectionate sendup of operettas and old-fashioned musicals, especially (but by no means exclusively) the works of Victor Herbert, Rudolf Friml, and Sigmund Romberg. It also has allusions to Gilbert and Sullivan, Irving Berlin, Jerome Kern, Noël Coward, Rodgers and Hammerstein, and other musical theatre composers and lyricists. Its "Indians" and "forest rangers" (thinly disguised Mounties) allude to Friml's ''Rose-Marie'', as does the song "Colorado Love Call". Numerous other, less obvious details point, in a humorous and lighthearted manner, to other operettas and musicals — sometimes specifically, sometimes in terms of general categories of songs or characters. The 1954 Marc Blitzstein adaptation of ''The Threepenny Opera'', which ran for six years, showed that musicals could be profitable off-Broadway in a small-scale, small orchestra format. This was confirmed in 1959 when a revival of Jerome Kern and P. G. Wodehouse's ''Leave It to Jane'' ran for more than two years. The 1959–1960 Off-Broadway season included a dozen musicals and revues including ''Little Mary Sunshine'', ''The Fantasticks'', which ran for over 40 years, and ''Ernest in Love'', a musicalization of Oscar Wilde's 1895 hit ''The Importance of Being Earnest''.〔Suskin, Steven. ("On the Record: Ernest In Love, Marco Polo, Puppets and Maury Yeston" ), Playbill.com, August 10, 2003.〕
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