| 词条 | The Dancing Years |
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|name = The Dancing Years |subtitle = |image = The Dancing Years Drury Lane Souvenir Programme.jpg |image_size = |caption = West End souvenir theatre programme |music = Ivor Novello |lyrics = Christopher Hassall |book = Ivor Novello |basis = |productions = 1939 West End |awards = }} The Dancing Years is a musical with book and music by Ivor Novello and lyrics by Christopher Hassall. The story takes place in Vienna, from 1911 until 1938. It follows the life of a penniless Jewish composer and his love for two women of different social classes, set against the background of Nazi persecution. The piece opened in 1939 in London's West End, starring Novello. Like many of Novello's musicals, The Dancing Years was given an expensive, spectacular production, with several scene changes and a large cast. SynopsisRudi, a penniless young Jewish composer, plays the piano at an Austrian country inn, where he has been friends, since childhood with the innkeeper's daughter, Grete; they pledged to marry some day. He falls in love with Maria, an opera singer, for whom he composes successful operas. Three years later, Grete has become a musical theatre star. Maria overhears Rudi proposing to Grete in jest. Maria misunderstands and returns to Vienna to marry her older patron and former lover, Prince Metterling. Maria bears Rudi's son, Otto, who is brought up to believe that he is Metterling's son. More than a decade later, Maria introduces Rudi to Otto. Rudi and Maria discover that they are still love with each other, but Rudi decides that he cannot break up her marriage for the sake of their son. After more than another decade passes, Rudi is sentenced to death by the Nazis for helping Jews to escape Austria, but Maria uses her husband's connections to get a reprieve for him. ProductionsThe musical was first produced at London's Theatre Royal, Drury Lane on 23 March 1939, directed by Novello's frequent collaborator Leontine Sagan.[1] Novello starred opposite Mary Ellis. It closed at the start of the Second World War in September 1939 after 187 performances. After a three-year provincial tour, the show reopened at the Adelphi Theatre on 14 March 1942, running there until July 1944, for a total of 969 performances. It was the most popular show of the war and earned an estimated £1,000,000.[2] After this, the show toured extensively in Britain and was revived numerous times, including in London, and was adapted for film and television. The 1968 West End revival starred June Bronhill.[3] The Australian production opened in Melbourne at His Majesty's Theatre in June 1946. The cast included Max Oldaker as Rudi, Elizabeth Gaye as Grete and Viola Wilson as Maria.[4][5] Original and 1942 casts
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AdaptationsThe musical was turned into a popular film in 1950.[6] Televised productions were aired by United Kingdom channels BBC in 1959, and ITV in 1979.[7][8] References1. ^{{cite web|url=http://www.historicalpapers.wits.ac.za/?inventory/U/collections&c=A855/R/6821|title=Leontine Sagan Papers, 1902–2011|website=www.historicalpapers.wits.ac.za|publisher= Wits University|access-date=16 March 2018}} 2. ^{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article27025051 |title=Composer Left £160,000 Estate. |newspaper=The Mercury |location=Hobart, Tasmania |date=9 June 1951 |accessdate=10 July 2012 |page=8 |publisher=National Library of Australia}} 3. ^Gordon, Robert and Olaf Jubin (eds). [https://books.google.com/books?id=ly6hDQAAQBAJ&pg=PT273 The Oxford Handbook of the British Musical], Oxford University Press (2016) {{ISBN|0199988765}} 4. ^{{cite news|last=Manzie|first=Kieth |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article22331369 |title=Dancing Years Is Brilliant |newspaper=The Argus |issue=31,148 |location=Victoria, Australia |date=1 July 1946 |accessdate=10 June 2017 |page=4 |via=National Library of Australia}} 5. ^{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article206374730 |title=Amusements |newspaper=The Age |issue=28450 |location=Victoria, Australia |date=1 July 1946 |accessdate=10 June 2017 |page=4 |via=National Library of Australia}} 6. ^{{cite web|url=https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=xtGIAgAAQBAJ&pg=PA212&lpg=PA212&dq|title=Realism and Tinsel: Cinema and Society in Britain 1939-48 (page 212)|first=Robrt|last=Murphy|date=2 Sep 2003|publisher=Routledge UK|isbn=113490150X| via=Google Books}} 7. ^{{cite web|url=http://bufvc.ac.uk/screenplays/index.php/prog/352|title=The Dancing Years (BBC, 1959)|website=British Universities Film & Video Council - bufvc.ac.uk}} 8. ^{{cite web|url=http://bufvc.ac.uk/screenplays/index.php/prog/553|title=The Dancing Years (Associated Television, 1979)|website=British Universities Film & Video Council - bufvc.ac.uk}} External links
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