by Michael Robson
With Edward de Souza as Jacques Offenbach and Maureen O'Brien as his wife Herminie
Edward Hardwicke as Charles Comte
Sarah Badel as Lise Tautin
and Kate Coleridge as Hortense Schneider

Paris 1858. Jacques Offenbach is already acclaimed as 'the Mozart of the Champs-Elysees', but his lavish spending on the productions of his operettas means that the theatre is losing a great deal of money. Could such an unlikely theme as Orpheus and Eurydice be turned into the glittering success that Offenbach is looking for?

(Edward de Souza is in "Night and Day" at the Phoenix Theatre, Edward Hardwicke in "Can You Hear Me at the Back!" at the Piccadilly Theatre, London)
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