The New Moon 1989 restored 

Fantastic! Thank you. I had no idea. They certainly made the cartoon character in "Beauty and the Beast" look just like him.

You are welcome. If there are master tapes of this production, a better version could be released. I was lucky to capture a good copy.

Me, too. Especially the way they did "Softly, As In A Morning Sunrise". I love Eddy and MacDonald, but the movie downplayed its most beautiful song.

@@NinaWasamata he has a great voice

This is a treat of a production with the proper orchestrations. I'll look for more N. Y. C. productions. I think I would have cut some of the reprises. I hope you will be allowed "Try her out at Dances" & when Alexander impersonates a Judge which were included when I played Alexander in London. That was in about 1988 in a concert version. I'm still acting & singing.

Everyone knows Richard White not only for this but also for the voice of Gaston in Beauty and the Beauty.

@@bradleymonroe6443 I'd say far more people know White due to Gaston than for this ;)

@@bradleymonroe6443 and the beast

You bring up something important in the history of operetta, which was composed mostly by Europeans, and had plots usually revolving around a princess from fictional Eastern European nation, or a princess from an Arabian dynasty, or a princess from a Native American tribe, etc. The escapism found in operetta was unable to endure the harsh realities of World War I, and didn’t survive long after. New Broadway composers, mostly born in America, whose styles were shaped by swing, ragtime, and jazz (as well as klezmer and 2nd Avenue Yiddish theater) offered a new kind of escapism that appealed to the New York and American audience.

It isn't remastered, just carefully processed to bring out the best I could from a home recording of the broadcast. A remastered version would have to be from studio quality tapes of the broadcast. There is an old B&W movie I saw many years ago of "The Desert Song".

@@barbarabenz9162 Nelson Eddy had a fine voice, but was a fairly wooden actor. He needed a microphone which was typical of many Hollywood singers. He is in the movie Rosalie which also features Elenor Powell, Ray Bolger, and Frank Morgan. Actually it is a whose who of Hollywood actores such as Edna May Oliver who is a wonderful acerbic queen opposite Morgan's dotty king. My grandfather, Clay Clement, plays the West Point Commandant. He and Morgan were the only 2 cast members from the original Broadway production. Actually, only one song by Romberg from the original production made it into the movie, replaced by Cole Porter numbers. The original play had a lot of comedy scenes between my grandfather and Bolger, but the movie cut most of them and featured Powell with Eddy as a big bucks fantastical musical. Bolger did do some dancing and was good as a scattered cadet. There are no recordings of the original play, and just a few of the Romberg songs are on CD. Cole Porter was more popular than the romantic operetta style songs of Romberg.

Thank you so much for your thoughts!! I didn’t know anything about Rosalie-but changing the stage play in any way to make a movie is one of my biggest gripes! That’s why I hunger so for films of the plays themselves- I loved Eddy’s voice but I found him wooden too-such a disappointment in the roles he was playing-I think that’s why I fell in love with this version of The New Moon-I love Richard White’s voice and stage presence!

@@barbarabenz9162 Movies, books, and plays are very different experiences. Sometimes the movie is better than the play or book. When PBS did Brideshead Revisited I thought it was very good. Then I read the book and found the PBS production was just as good as it followed the book so closely. Rosalie is overdone, but very entertaining with Powell and Bolger's dancing, Eddy's singing plus the great talents of other actors lim Morgan. The original had a stiff classical cancer as the princess, according to my father, so the movie with Powell may have been much better. Powell was animated which contrasted with Eddy.

There is no commercial release of this, but there are sites that sell DVDs of various TV productions, but I do not know if there is a copy of this production..

The credits at the end state that this is the NYC Opera Orchestra.

The restoration refers to the video and sound, but not to the artistic decisions in the production. A better copy could be created from the master tapes of the production. Romberg's original shows are now only available in partially recreated form. Most musical theater has cuts and added interpolations from other sources. The movie Rosalie discarded all but one of his songs and greatly altered both the story and dialog. This is probably the closest you will ever get to the original show.

@@clementj1 I realized that after I posted. Thank you for such a beautiful job. The closest production to get back to the original 1928 show was the cncert performances by City Center Encores! which resulted in the most complete recording of the original score.

@@wlawrencemoore You are welcome. Yes, there are audio recordings, but the show should have a complete video performance. The Wikipedia lists a recording of the complete score. It is always necessary to edit the dialog on older shows to account for the changes in the audiences, but the music and lyrics should be treated with great respect.

Personally, as someone who has just now been in a local production of this show, this adaptation of the original material is much better. The dialogue is much more fluid and plot driven in this version, and the story line is easy to follow. Also having Philippe sing the Duet/Tri of Lover, Come Back to Me instead of Softly was genius. Patrons at my local theater don’t follow the story, but enjoyed the music. This adaptation is the way I believe the show should be done once it becomes public domain.

@@jackaval5998 Of course, all theatrical productions are modified from the originals. Cuts are made and sometimes new material is added. Staging often has radical changes. The original opera Carmen had spoken dialog, but recitatives replaced it so it could be performed at the "Grand Opera". The original Tales of Hoffman is seldom performed because the added music was very popular. Of course as an unfinished work, people had a free hand. The original male castrati roles are now often female cross dressing roles. Comic operas often have topical dialog added to make it funnier for modern audiences. The biggest chop job on one of Romberg's works was Rosalie where all but one song was replaced and the comedy lines involving the commandant were cut to practically nothing. In the original show my grandfather played the commandant, a straight man role, but in the movie his part was severely cut. He and Frank Morgan were the only 2 actors to be in both the stage and movie productions. Elenor Powell's tap dancing, Eddy's singing, and Bolger's dancing were emphasized. Morgan's dotty king did survive!

Sorry, that you don't find it to be interesting. It is not the type of entertainment which is currently in vogue, but it was popular and many people love Romberg's romantic music. Entertainment changes and there is no accounting for taste. Each generation likes to diss the previous generation's taste, but sometimes the old entertainments come back and become popular again.