Blondes preferred (musical)

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Title: Blondes preferred
Original title: Gentlemen Prefer Blondes
Original language: English
Music: Jule Styne
Book: Joseph Fields and Anita Loos
Lyrics: Leo Robin
Premiere: December 8, 1949
Place of premiere: Ziegfeld Theater in New York

Blondes prefer (English. Original title Gentlemen Prefer Blondes ) is a musical by Jule Styne (music) and Leo Robin (lyrics). The book about the musical is by Joseph Fields and Anita Loos , based on Loos' novel of the same name (1925), Schauspiel (1926) and the film adaptation by Malcolm St. Clair (1928). The world premiere took place on December 8, 1949 at the Ziegfeld Theater in New York . The German-language premiere was in 1988 in the Stadttheater in Pforzheim in the translation by Gabrielle Peter and Beate Rygiert-Schmidt. In 2013 the piece was newly translated by Christian Gundlach (dialogues) and Edith Jeske (lyrics) on behalf of the Felix Bloch Erben publishing house .

Carol Channing became a star through the role of Lorelei. In a rework titled Lorelei (subtitled: Gentlemen Still Prefer Blondes ), which premiered on January 27, 1974 at the Palace Theater in New York City, she again took the lead role. Styne composed additional songs for this with lyrics by Betty Comden and Adolph Green , Kenny Solms and Gail Parent wrote the book. The plot of the 1949 musical was given a framework in which the widowed Lorelei remembers the circumstances of their marriage.

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Place and time: New York, the Île de France passenger ship , Paris. 1924.
When you find something to love, you don't necessarily have to ask about class, intent or past. Mr. Esmond Sr. is doing this because his son wants to get married.
The couple is already at the port, ready to leave for Europe, when Gus Esmond is called back. The invention of the zipper threatens the company's own button manufacturing. Lorelei Lee now has to sail across the Atlantic alone, accompanied only by her friend Dorothy. During the crossing, Lorelei stirs up the high society on board, gives her friend a supplier and meets the zipper inventor Josephus Gage, while old Esmond is still poking around in her past back home. But Gus doesn't care. He goes to Paris to marry her - and finds her there in a dress with a zipper!
The longing, however, is greater than the pride. At the finale in New York, Lorelei Esmond Senior presented half of the shares in the zip company, so that they can finally get married.

Well-known music numbers

filming

The musical was published in 1953, under the title Blondes ( Gentlemen Prefer Blondes ) by Howard Hawks et al. a. filmed with Marilyn Monroe and Jane Russell .

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  1. ↑ Siren on the Rocks. In: TIME Magazine. Retrieved January 21, 2008.