{"product_id":"for-one-week-only-the-norfolk-and-norwich-operatic-society-19252025-9781837652150","title":"For One Week Only!: The Norfolk and Norwich Operatic Society, 1925–2025","description":"\u003cb\u003eExplores the 100 year history of the Norfolk and Norwich Operatic Society and celebrates the company's relationship with the Theatre Royal Norwich, one of the most successful major provincial theatres in the country.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eFor One Week Only\u003c\/i\u003e, published in time for the Norfolk and Norwich Operatic Society's centenary in January 2025, celebrates the company's relationship with the Theatre Royal Norwich, one of the most successful major provincial theatres in the country. The book charts the development of the Society over a hundred years of musical theatre, British and American. Each of the almost 100 productions has its own lively, informative and socially aware essay, accompanied by photographs revealing the development of the company from its origins in 1925, as well as showing the changing faces and styles of musical theatre throughout the century. The early years of the Society favoured such continental operettas as \u003ci\u003eThe Marriage Market \u003c\/i\u003eand the bewitching \u003ci\u003eSybil \u003c\/i\u003ebefore a long dalliance with Gilbert and Sullivan from which it broke free after World War II, although \u003ci\u003eIolanthe \u003c\/i\u003ereturned for her third outing in 1955. The Society's fascination with operetta continued through the 1960s with such sturdy favourites as \u003ci\u003eThe Student Prince\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Merry Widow \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003eRose Marie\u003c\/i\u003e, with an occasional recognition of the British musical, notably in the 1975 production of Ivor Novello's \u003ci\u003eKing's Rhapsody \u003c\/i\u003eand in the hugely successful\u003ci\u003e Betty Blue Eyes \u003c\/i\u003eof 2024. \u003ci\u003eFor One Week Only \u003c\/i\u003eexplores the history of the N\u0026amp;N and its ongoing contribution to the arts in Norfolk. Warmly and wittily, it lifts the curtain on a story of theatrical endurance and adventure.","brand":"Adrian Wright","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48280816615675,"sku":"9781837652150","price":36.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0779\/3917\/9771\/files\/9781837652150_3264fd63-a703-40e0-9f73-f78504dbff0d.jpg?v=1772487270","url":"https:\/\/indiepubs.com\/products\/for-one-week-only-the-norfolk-and-norwich-operatic-society-19252025-9781837652150","provider":"IndiePubs","version":"1.0","type":"link"}