One Touch of Venus
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For the film adaptation, see One Touch of Venus (film).
One Touch of Venus is a 1943 musical with music written by Kurt Weill, lyrics by Ogden Nash, and book by S. J. Perelman and Nash, based on the 1885 novella The Tinted Venus by Thomas Anstey Guthrie, and very loosely spoofing the Pygmalion myth. The show satirizes contemporary American suburban values, artistic fads and romantic and sexual mores. Weill had been in America for eight years by the time he wrote this musical, and his music, though retaining his early haunting power, had evolved into a very different Broadway style.[1]
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One Touch of Venus | |
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Music | Kurt Weill |
Lyrics | Ogden Nash |
Book | Ogden Nash S. J. Perelman |
Basis | Thomas Anstey Guthrie's novella The Tinted Venus |
Productions | 1943 Broadway 1948 Film 1992 Barbican Centre 1995 BBC Radio 1997 Light Opera Works 2000 Royal Opera House 2001 King's Head Theatre |
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