Paradise Found
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CURRENTLY CLOSED
Opened May 19, 2010
Closed Jun 26, 2010
Opened May 19, 2010
Closed Jun 26, 2010
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WHAT IS IT ABOUT?
The Shah of Persia is feeling low. So to lift his spirits he's off to Vienna with his Eunuch in tow for some new adventures. He promptly falls in love with the Empress of the Empire, much to the dismay of her husband, so a resident of the local brothel - who is a double for the Empress - is substituted for a night of passion. But she's in love with a Baron, who's having an affair with the Soap Manufacturer's Wife...
Harold Prince and Susan Stroman direct an all-American cast including Kate Baldwin, John Cullum, Shuler Hensley, Judy Kaye and Mandy Patinkin, in this world premiere musical.
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Musical-comedy paradise is barely even detected in Paradise Found, now premiering at London's Menier Chocolate Factory, in which a much-awarded all-American creative contingent has cobbled a shockingly flat tuner from a Joseph Roth novel called The Tale of the 1002nd Night about the Shah of Persia.
Apparently, director Harold Prince, choreographer Susan Stroman, librettist Richard Nelson, lyricist Ellen Fitzhugh, arranger Jonathan Tunick, and set designer Beowulf Boritt all thought it a jolly notion to turn Roth's story placed in turn-of-the-19th-century Persia and Vienna into a racy comic operetta -- while commandeering the evocative music of Johann Strauss. At least, the Strauss melodies [...]