Sigmund Romberg

Robert Wright, 90; Composer, Lyricist for Musicals and Films

2005-07-30 00:00:00

Robert Wright, a Tony Award-winning composer and lyricist whose songwriting collaboration with George "Chet" Forrest included the hit Broadway musicals "Song of Norway," "Kismet" and "Grand Hotel," has died. He was 90. Wright, a three-time Oscar nominee,...

Suburban Stage for the week of Aug. 19-25

2011-08-17 09:09:00

"The Student Prince": Yes, beer gardens in musicals have had a sinister hue since "Tomorrow Belongs to Me" in "Cabaret." But Sigmund Romberg and Dorothy Donnelly's 1924 operetta about Karl Franz, the heir to the fictional kingdom of Karlsberg who falls in...

Theater review, 'The Student Prince' by Light Opera Works at Cahn Auditorium

2001-12-24 00:00:00

In 1924, in the middle of the Jazz Age, the biggest hit on Broadway was "The Student Prince," a sentimental operetta about the prince of a mythical European kingdom who falls in love with a beer garden waitress in old Heidelberg. The show was the...

Recent openings: 'The Student Prince,' 'Les Miserables' and 'The Forgotten Carols'

2001-12-21 00:00:00

In Sigmund Romberg's famous American operetta, the title character, Prince Karl Franz, has enrolled incognito in Heidelberg University. There he hopes to learn how to be a prince as well as a student. Love, of course, is one of the less official lessons...

Prince William had nothing on the rebellious inclinations of the hero of this Sigmund Romberg operetta. Prince Karl Franz, headed off to Heidelberg University, briefly majored in drinking and back-slapping, and promptly fell in love with an Austrian waitress at the Inn of the Three Golden Apples.

2011-09-09 12:22:47