One Touch of Venus

One Touch of Venus is a musical by Kurt Weill (music) and Ogden Nash (lyrics ). The book is by SJ Perelman and Ogden Nash after the Pygmalion -inspired fabric story, The Tinted Venus by F. Anstey ( Thomas Anstey Guthrie pseudonym of (s) ). The premiere took place on October 7, 1943 at the Imperial Theatre (s) in New York. It was directed by Elia Kazan, the role of Venus was played by Mary Martin. The musical was successful with 567 performances of Weill's Broadway show.

Had One Touch of Venus ( A Touch of Venus) his German -language premiere on 17 June 1994 at the Meininger Theater, in a translation by Richard Emanuel consecration.

Action

As the barber, Rodney Hatch is on industrial home visit at the Art Collectors and Art Academy President Whitelaw Savory, it says this in front of his new acquisition, an ancient Greek statue Venus.

In an unguarded moment Rodney put the statue on the imaginary actually for his fiancée Gloria engagement ring, whereby the Venus statue come to life. She falls in love once in the first best present, in Rodney. Attempts in vain to escape the amorous Venus - the complications begin: The disappearance of the statue is Rodney charged as theft, Venus shipped Gloria, the North Pole, after Rodney gets her rival in love matters, on suspicion of murder and sent to prison. From there, he is freed by Venus, spends a night of passion with her and eventually abandoned by the back conjured Gloria.

Now, where Rodney is free and himself head over heels in love, Venus begin to wonder if her could well be granted a divine life on this man's side. So she returns to her pedestal and all turn to marble.

Well-known musical numbers

• Speak Low
• How Much I Love You
• I'm a Stranger Here Myself
• Forty Minutes for Lunch ( Ballet )
• Venus in Ozone Heights ( ballet )

Filming

The eponymous film of 1948 by William A. Seiter with Ava Gardner based on the musical and musically was established by Ann Ronell.