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BASIL HOOD
Nationality: British
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Basil Hood's plays including biography, theatres, agent, synopses, cast sizes, production and published dates
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Count Of Luxembourg, The Merry Widow, TheCount Of Luxembourg, The
Synopsis:
Grand Duke Rutzinov has fallen in love with Angele a commoner and may not marry her. He devises a way that she can get a title. He pays his friend Count Rene to marry her and then divorce her thus Angele will have a title. the marriage takes place with Angele behind a screen so she and Rene do not see each other. Later at a party they meet and are attracted to one another not knowing they are in fact married. When Angele finds out that Rene is her husband and that he only did it for the money she storms out. the Duke meanwhile has fallen in love with a Russian countess and wants her instead of Angele. Rene inherits a large sum of money and pays back the Duke.
Notes:
Music by Franz Lehar; lyrics and book by Basil Hood; Adrian Ross
1st Produced:
the Hippodrome, Bristol 1955
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Operetta
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Synopsis:
To save his country from bankruptcy Prince Danilo has agreed to marry the very rich Sonia Glawari. But he wants to back out as he thinks that he will be seen as a fortune hunter. Sonia persuades him that she is penniless
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Music by Franz Lehar; lyrics by Adrian Ross; book by Basil Hood
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