The Blue Paradise is a musical

Musical theatre

Musical theatre is a form of theatre combining songs, spoken dialogue, acting, and dance. The emotional content of the piece – humor, pathos, love, anger – as well as the story itself, is communicated through the words, music, movement and technical aspects of the entertainment as an...

 with music by Edmund Eysler

Edmund Eysler

Edmund Samuel Eysler , was an Austrian composer.-Biography:Edmund Eysler was born in Vienna to a merchant family...

 and Sigmund Romberg

Sigmund Romberg

Sigmund Romberg was a Hungarian-born American composer, best known for his operettas.-Biography:Romberg was born as Siegmund Rosenberg to a Jewish family in Gross-Kanizsa during the Austro-Hungarian kaiserlich und königlich monarchy period...

, lyrics by Herbert Reynolds, and a book by Edgar Smith, based on the operetta

Operetta

Operetta is a genre of light opera, light in terms both of music and subject matter. It is also closely related, in English-language works, to forms of musical theatre.-Origins:...

 Ein Tag im Paradies (1913) by Eysler with original text by Leo Stein

Leo Stein (writer)

Leo Stein, born Leo Rosenstein was a playwright and librettist of operettas in the latter part of the 19th and early 20th centuries, including works adapted for a number of Broadway productions....

 and Bela Jenbach. The story is set in a Viennese cafe, where a man realizes that he cannot recapture his long lost love. The musical introduced the song “Auf Wiedersehn”, Romberg’s first song hit, originally sung by 18 year-old Vivienne Segal

Vivienne Segal

Vivienne Sonia Segal was an American actress and singer.Segal was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. She is best remembered for creating the role of Vera Simpson in Richard Rodgers and Lorenz Hart's Pal Joey and introduced the song "Bewitched, Bothered and Bewildered"...

 in her professional debut.

Productions

The original Broadway

Broadway theatre

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 production opened at the Casino Theatre on August 5, 1915 and ran for 356 performances, transferring to the 44th Street Theatre in May 1916. It featured in the cast, besides Segal, Cecil Lean, Cleo Mayfield, Ted Lorraine, Robert Pitkin, Frances Demarest, and Teddy Webb.

The musical also played at The Muny Repertory

The Muny Repertory

The Muny, or the Municipal Opera Association of St. Louis, Missouri, in the United States, is a not-for-profit municipally-owned outdoor theatre, the largest in the United States. The Theater was built and opened in 1917 with 6 performances of Verdi's Aida. It operates solely in the summer, and its...

 in St. Louis in July 1932.

Musical numbers

Prologue

• No. 1 - Overture
• No. 2 - Opening Ensemble - “Here’s a toast to women’s eyes that guide the foolish and the wise...”
• No. 3 - Drinking Song - Rudolph and Chorus - “When I’m with good fellows I never want to think of anything that’s sober...”
• No. 4 - Song - Stoeger and Chorus - “Come to its pretty garden all open to the day...”
• No. 5 - Song and Chorus - “I used to be the Hello central girl, I was the best out on the west...”
• No. 6 - Duet - Rudolph and Mizzi - “Let me hold you close to my heart, brush your tears away, dear...”

Act I

• No. 7 - Opening Chorus - “We wish you the pleasantest of journeys, sir, wherever you go from here...”
• No. 8 - Duet and Dance - Rudy and Gaby - “Where you are there and I am here, a world of distance lies between us two...”
• No. 9 - Quartet - Stoeger, Hampel, Rudy and Walther - “Hallo, Justus! Hallo, Stoeger! Walther! Rudy! Hallo, Uncle! ...”
• No. 10 - Song - Gladys and Chorus - “Let me begin by saying where I am staying - I want it, and get it, so let it warn you...”
• No. 11 - Duet - Stoeger and Gladys - “Long ago I said I would never take a wife; I have no desire to spoil anybody’s life...”
• No. 12 - Duet - Walther and Gladys - “When I see a loving couple anywhere, I just want to go and whisper:- Have a care...”
• No. 13 - Ensemble - Stoeger and Chorus - “Let me breathe the real Vienna air now; let me know that I am truly there now...”

Act II

• No. 14 - Opening Chorus - “Will someone please explain to us why we have been invited here, a private house...”
• No. 15 - Comedy Folk Song - Rudy, Hampel and Chorus - “Now Heiny had a little dog what didn’t have no teet’...”
• No. 16 - Folk Song and Yodle - Gladys - “I hear the cuckoo a-calling tonight: Oo-lay-eo, Oo-lay-eo...”
• No. 17 - Duet - Walther and Hazel, with Chorus - “I think you’re perfection, you're quite a model girl...”
• No. 18 - Waltz of the Season - Stoeger and Chorus - “Hark! Hark! Hark! What is it the orchestra’s playing? ...”
• No. 19 - Song - Rudolph - “Most ev’ry foreign nation has a style of song creation...”
• No. 20 - Duet - Stoeger and Gladys - “I’m dreaming of a wonderful night, night long ago...”
• No. 21 - Finale Act II - “If you’d be a happy man, you’d better win a pretty widow...”

Note: Items 2, 5, 6, 7, 10, 12, 14 & 17 were composed by Romberg, Items 4, 8, 9, 11, 13, 18, 20 & 21 were composed by Eysler; Items 3, 15 & 16 were composed by Leo Edwards

Leo Edwards (composer)

Leo Edwards was a Broadway composer. He was the brother of Gus Edwards,, who was also a Broadway composer....

; and Item 19 was written and composed by Cecil Lean.

External links

• Midi files
• The Blue Paradise at the IBDB database