Aug. 22, 28, and 29

Organization: Lyric Theatre of San Jose
Venue: Southside Stage at Fort Mason
City: San Francisco
Date: Sun August 29, 2010 2:00pm
Price Range: $27
Tickets: (408) 986-9090

The Dollar Princess

San José-based Lyric Theater is taking a chance on a San Francisco venue: the Southside Theater at Fort Mason. They’re bringing a forgotten operetta, Leo Fall’s The Dollar Princess, which was a hit on Broadway in 1909 in an English revision, with a few interpolated songs by a young Jerome Kern. Barbara Reynolds and Jennifer Ashworth are the “dollar princesses” (old-time slang for an American heiress), and they are supported by a large capable cast. In the tradition of The Merry Widow, here’s another reason that the Viennese vintage survived on Broadway for so long.

Michael Zwiebach is the senior editor/ content manager for SFCV. He assigns all articles and content, manages the writing staff and does editing. A member of SFCV from the beginning, Michael holds a Ph.D. in music history from the University of California, Berkeley.