Fanny (Musical)

  • Fanny
  • Marius
  • Panisse, sailmaker
  • César, bar owner, Marius ' father
  • Honorine, Fanny's mother
  • The Admiral
  • Escartefigue
  • Brun
  • Césario, Fanny's son
  • Dancer
  • Mate
  • Louis
  • Postman
  • Three young people
  • Marseille Volkstypen

Fanny is an American musical in two acts (18 images ) by Harold Rome. The libretto authored Samuel Nathaniel Behrman and Joshua Logan. It is based on the drama trilogy " Marius, César et Fanny " by Marcel Pagnol. The lyrics are from the composer. The work was premiered on November 4, 1954 at the Majestic Theatre in New York City under the direction of Joshua Logan. It came to 888 ideas. The German version is from Günther Schwenn and Michael Freytag. The German premiere took place in 1955 in Munich.

Orchestra

Three flutes, one oboe, four clarinets, one bassoon, two horns, three trumpets, two trombones, a harp, a mandolin, percussion and strings

Stage sets

First Act: Picture 1: At the harbor, houses of César, Honorine and Panisse; Figure 2: Local sailors; Figure 3: César's Bar; Figure 4: At the dock, abfahrendes sailing vessel; Figure 5: César's Bar; Figure 6: Honor Ines fish shop; Figure 7: Panisses sailing business; Figure 8: Wedding Party; Figure 9: At the harbor

Act Two: 10: children; Figure 11: Living room; Figure 12: pram image; Figure 13: fish shop; Figure 14: cityscape; Figure 15: children; Figure 16: birthday party; Figure 17: Garage; Figure 18: bedroom house in Panisses

Action

Act I

César runs a bar in the port of Marseilles. The 19 -year-old Marius, his only son, since his childhood has been dreaming of hiring as a sailor on a ship and travel to distant lands. That he has not been implemented yet his desire into action, is only his girlfriend, the fishwife Fanny. One day, but Marius has a fateful encounter with a man who is called by all only " The Admiral ". This tells him that if he wanted, he could hire tomorrow on a research vessel. Marius is weak and says to. All the request of his girlfriend does not induce him to retune.

Several weeks have passed without that Fanny has heard of her lover. Also César has still not received news of his son. Fanny is sad because she is expecting a child of Marius and fears that it needs to grow up without a father. Since Fanny receives from her mother Honorine the Council, the wealthy sailmaker to marry Panisse, because this was the last six months a widower and had a crush on her since the death of his wife. The marriage is threaded; Panisse is pleased with his young pretty woman and does not disturb by the fact that she is pregnant by another man. He truly loves and believes that it would Marius soon forget.

As Fanny is taking her son to the world, he is given the name Césario.

Marius has received from the expedition commissioned to get the unit to France for repair. Yet his path also leads him over Marseille. Suddenly he discovers Fanny with the child. As he noted, as another fire starts to blaze within him. He implores his former lover to forgive his former abrupt departure. As Panisse matters worse, the two men got into an argument. Marius realizes that it is better for Fanny and their son, if they stay with Panisse. He passed rapidly and drives back to sea. Fanny realizes that she still loves so much as Marius in adolescence.

Second Act

Ten year later. Césario is now twelve years old and remembers in his whole being his mother again and again to Marius; because the child dreams of seafaring and of foreign countries.

Not quite randomly appeared once again on the "Admiral". He knows that Marius has now given up seafaring and has become settled in a neighboring town. He wants to merge the boy with his father. In a cloak-and -dagger operation " kidnapped " he Césario. The boy does everything happen to like, because it is this variety welcome.

It does not take long to Marius Césario will bring back to his mother. Once you reach Panisses house, heard father and son sobbing from the bedroom. The grief over the loss of his stepson has the old Panisse so upset that he has died. First, however, he has not written a letter to Marius, in which he asks him to marry his wife after his death. He knew that Fanny ultimately can only be happy with Marius. And so it happens.

Music

Fanny was the first musical in the history of the genre, which has a strong close to the opera. Comes particularly clear in the dramatic scenes and the ballet sequences for expression. The main roles were occupied at the premiere with people who had received their training of opera Ezio Pinza, Walter Slezak, Florence Henderson and Mohammed El- Bakkar. Of the songs, the following were highlighted as musical highlights ( in the German version ):

  • When I see a ship, then I say hopeful: Take me with you into the world
  • Love never comes, never too late!
  • Whether he suspects if he knows since when I love him so?
  • Do not be afraid to dance!
  • Hail, says the house, come in and rest from!
  • I have to tell you, I love ' you from the heart!
  • Oysters, mussels and lobster
  • To have a child is not easy
  • I thought day and night of you
  • When I see my child's eyes "...
  • Be nice to the parents who 's often not deserve

Filming

Joshua Logan, the director of the world premiere on Broadway, the musical 1961 filmed without vocals, but used Harold Rome's music as the soundtrack. Under his direction, Charles Boyer, Maurice Chevalier, Leslie Caron and Horst Buchholz played the lead roles. The lexicon of international film proclaims: ". Marcel Pagnol trilogy of comedies ' The Golden Anchor ' in a slightly different, somewhat superficial - gefühligen American film version with outstanding performers "

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  • Samuel Nathaniel Behrman
  • Marcel Pagnol
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