Silk Stockings (Musical)

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Title: Silk stockings
Original title: Silk stockings
Original language: English
Music: Cole Porter
Book: George S. Kaufman , Leueen MacGrath, Abe Burrows
Lyrics: Cole Porter
Literary source: Ninocska by Melchior Lengyel .
Original direction: Cy fire
Premiere: February 24, 1955
Place of premiere: Imperial Theater , New York City
Playing time: approx. 120 minutes
Place and time of the action: Paris and Moscow, 1955
Roles / people

Singing roles:

  • Nina Yaschenko, called Ninotschka
  • Janice Dayton
  • Steve Canfield
  • Ivanov
  • Brankov
  • Bibinski
  • Alexis (hotel porter)

Speaking roles include:

  • Pyotr Ilyich Boroff
  • Commissioner Vasily Markowitsch
  • Vera
  • Three reporters
  • Pierre Bouchard (hotel waiter)
  • Monsieur Fabour (Couturier)

Hotel staff, Paris communists, film crew, Moscow artists and neighbors, among others

Silk Stockings is a musical by Cole Porter based on the film Ninotschka by Ernst Lubitsch , based on the play Ninocska (1937) by Melchior Lengyel . The world premiere took place on February 24, 1955 at the Imperial Theater in New York ; the Ninotschka played Hildegard Knef (under the pseudonym Hildegarde Neff) and remained the only German in a leading role on Broadway for many decades. In addition to Knef, u. a. Don Ameche and Gretchen Wyler ; the play was performed 478 times on Broadway. The German-language premiere took place on October 5, 1974 in the Linz State Theater in a translation by Wilfried Steiner.

content

During the Cold War , the Soviet secret agent Nina Yashenko, of course a staunch communist, was sent to capitalist and decadent Paris. It is supposed to bring back the Soviet national composer Pyotr Ilyich Boroff and bring three functionaries of the Moscow cultural authority, who are there for the same reason, back on ideologically. Your opponent is the American film producer Steve Canfield, who wants to keep the composer in Paris for a film score. But the hardliner soon succumbs to the charm of the metropolis on the Seine, the advantages of the western way of life and especially the seductive arts of the American, which she does not want to admit due to her fixed class position. Nina returns to Moscow, but no longer finds any real taste in her previous life, and the residential area she oversees develops into a refuge for dissidents and free-thinking artists. When Canfield appears in Moscow to win Nina back, they both escape arrest at the last moment thanks to a ruse and are able to escape together to the West.

Music numbers

I. act

  • Overture
  • 1. Lobby Music
  • 2. "Too Bad" - Alexis, Ensemble
  • 3. Too Bad (Reprise) - Alexis, Ensemble
  • 4. "Too Bad" (Change Music)
  • 5. "Paris Loves Lovers" - Canfield, Ninotschka
  • 6. "Paris Loves Lovers" (Change)
  • 7. "Stereophonic Sound" - Janice
  • 8. "Stereophonic Sound" (Change)
  • 9. "Chemical Reaction" / "All of You" - Ninotschka, Canfield
  • 10. Before Ladder
  • 11. After Ladder
  • 12. "Satin and Silk" - Janice
  • 13. "Satin and Silk" (Bridge)
  • 14. "Without Love" - ​​Ninochka
  • 15. Finale Act I - Canfield

II. Act

  • Entr'acte
  • 16. Introduction to Act II
  • 17. "Hail, Bibinski" - Ivanov, Brankow, Bibinski, ensemble
  • 18. "Hail, Bibinski" (Play Off) - Ivanov, Brankow, Bibinski, ensemble
  • 19. "As On Through the Seasons We Sail" - Canfield, Ninotschka
  • 20. "Josephine" - Janice, Ensemble
  • 21. "Siberia" - Ivanov, Brankow, Bibinsky
  • 22. Lobby (II)
  • 23. "Silk Stockings" - Canfield
  • 24. "Stereophonic Sound" (Reprise) - Janice
  • 25. Apartment Change - male voices off-stage
  • 26. "Red Blues" ensemble
  • 27. Finale ultimo: "Too Bad" - Company
  • Exit Music

filming

The musical was created in 1957 by Rouben Mamoulian u. a. Filmed with Fred Astaire , Cyd Charisse , Janis Paige and Peter Lorre (German title: silk stockings ).

literature

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Thomas Siedhoff, German (speaking) es Musical , accessed on January 17, 2020