Sigmund Romberg

As usual, we’re showcasing some of the musicals that opened this month on this week’s Dress Circle (9/6 7:00 p.m.). Since there hasn’t been a new musical open since 2020, we thought we’d do something a little different. We’re still looking at overtures and opening numbers, but this time, we’re focusing on eight operettas.

We've combined a bit of silliness with calendar art for this week's program as we scheduled fifteen marches from a variety of sources (Broadway, Hollywood, television) to celebrate the month of March - even though none of the marches really have anything to do with the month.

We’ll be looking at some forgotten operettas on this week’s Dress Circle with the help of Wooster’s Ohio Light Opera Company. For over 40 years, the company has been producing musicals, mostly over the summers, and this first of two programs showcasing some of their recordings will look at five operettas that were popular in their day but have all but disappeared today.