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''The New Moon'' is the name of an operetta with music by Sigmund Romberg and book and lyrics by Oscar Hammerstein II, Frank Mandel, and Laurence Schwab. The show was the third and last in a string of Broadway hits for Romberg (after ''The Student Prince'' (1924) and ''The Desert Song'' (1926)) written in the style of Viennese operetta. It spawned a number of revivals and two film versions, and it is still played by light opera companies. The piece turned out to be "Broadway's last hit operetta",〔 as World War II and the Golden Age of musicals approached. ==Performance history== ''The New Moon'' debuted in Philadelphia on Christmas Eve, 1927. The tryout was a failure, and the show was extensively revised before another tryout in Cleveland in August 1928 and then moving to New York. Al Goodman conducted in both Philadelphia and New York.〔Liner notes from the 1951 RCA Victor album〕〔(The New Moon, operetta ), Allmusic, accessed December 1, 2012〕 The operetta opened on Broadway at the Imperial Theatre on September 19, 1928, ran for 519 performances, and closed at the Casino Theatre on December 14, 1929. The production used set designs by Donald Oenslager. The work was produced in London's West End at the Drury Lane Theatre in 1929.〔(The New Moon ) at The Guide to Light Opera & Operetta, accessed December 1, 2012〕 Although the piece then had international productions and stock revivals into the 1950s,〔Suskin, Steven. ("A Two-Piano ''Finian's Rainbow'' and the Encores! ''New Moon''" ), ''Playbill'', November 28, 2004, accessed December 1, 2012〕 it then disappeared for a few decades. One commentator wrote, "What has kept ''The New Moon'' from being as familiar as ''Naughty Marietta'' or ''The Student Prince'' is perhaps its chronological place at the end of operetta's reign over the musical stage.〔 The operetta was restaged faithfully in 1986 by the New York City Opera〔Hughes, Allen. ("Operetta: Romberg's ''New Moon'' by City Opera" ), ''The New York Times'', August 28, 1986, accessed December 1, 2012〕 and was telecast by PBS in 1989. The Light Opera of Manhattan staged the work several times in the 1980s.〔Hughes, Allen. ("Opera: ''New Moon'' Offered" ), ''The New York Times'', October 19, 1984, accessed December 1, 2012〕 City Center Encores! presented a semi-staged revival at New York City Center in March 2003. The Encores production was presented during the run-up to the Iraq War and part of the audience responded with loud applause and cheers to the line "One can be loyal to one's country and yet forswear its leader".〔Midgette, Anne. ("Operetta Review: Much Silliness In a Gilt Frame" ), ''The New York Times'', March 29, 2003, accessed December 1, 2012〕〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「The New Moon」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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