The Great Waltz

The Great Waltz

The Great Waltz is a musical conceived by Hassard Short with a book by Moss Hart and lyrics by Desmond Carter, using themes by Johann Strauss I and Johann Strauss II. It is based on a pasticcio by Erich Wolfgang Korngold and Julius Bittner called Walzer aus Wien, first performed in Vienna in 1930. The story of the musical is loosely based on the real-life feud between the older and younger Strauss, allegedly because of the father's jealousy of his son's greater talent. The Great Waltz debuted on Broadway at the Center Theatre on September 22, 1934 and ran for 289 performances. The production was directed by Hassard Short and presented by Max Gordon, with choreography by Albertina Rasch, settings by Albert Johnson and costumes by Doris Zinkeisen together with Marion Claire, Marie Burke and Guy Robertson. The musical was made into a motion picture by MGM in 1938 with a screenplay and new lyrics by Oscar Hammerstein II. In 1949 impresario Edwin Lester hired Robert Wright and George Forrest to adapt Strauss's German lyrics and music for a production at the Los Angeles Civic Light Opera. This version was used for a London revival that opened at the Drury Lane Theatre on July 9, 1970 and ran for 605 performances. It was also used for a 1972 film remake.

Genre: Biography, Drama, Music
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Year:
1938
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Johann 'Schani' Strauss II:
Thanks for firing me, Mr. Wertheimer. Goodbye, you worms!

Johann 'Schani' Strauss II:
He's the greatest music publisher in Vienna!

Fritz Schiller:
Well, he's still Hofbauer.

Julius Hofbauer, Music Publisher:
Mark my words, young man, if it hasn't got the imprint of Hofbauer, it isn't even music.

Carla Donner:
The only composers I ever knew were fat little men with bald heads.

Policeman outside Hohenfried's:
Don't forget to turn out the light.

Johann 'Schani' Strauss II:
I was just going to arrest her, don't you see how guilty she looks?

Policeman outside Hohenfried's:
I wish my wife looked as guilty as that.

Johann 'Schani' Strauss II:
I don't care who sings this! Vienna will sing this!

Carla Donner:
Where are we?

Coachman:
Where you wanted to be, in the Vienna Woods, and it's only six o'clock in the morning, and you have a long and beautiful day ahead of you.

Julius Hofbauer, Music Publisher:
He must be full of marches after a revolution like this.

Poldi Vogelhuber:
We don't have revolutions every day, thank Heaven.

Carla Donner:
You probably deserve him more than I do, but he's going with me.

Johann 'Schani' Strauss II:
Have you ever been on the Danube?

Johann 'Schani' Strauss II:
And the earth, and the blood of life itself is vanity.

Johann 'Schani' Strauss II:
Something difficult and honest had to be said, and it was just like you to say it.

Emperor Franz Josef:
Tell me, is there still anything about me that annoys you?

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