Ward, Robert

Operetta in 2 Acts composed by Robert Ward. Commissioned by the Ohio Light Opera to honor James Stuart, Founder of the Company and Artistic Director from 1979-1999.

Libretto:
Written by James Stuart. Based on the O’Henry Prize-Winning Story by Richard Connell.

Synopsis:
Papa Chibou has come to Paris from the south of France with the idea of planting asparagus along its beautiful boulevards. Finding that such a practice is forbidden, he takes a job as watchman in a wax museum. He becomes particularly attached to a miserable statue of a man (one of his ears had come into contact with a steam radiator) wearing a three-cornered cocked hat and with his left hand shoved into his bosom. He knows nothing about this forsaken creature other than that his name is Napoleon. One spring day, Nina, a young American girl who is chaperoned by her aunt Alice, encounters at the museum the handsome Georges Dufayel, a young attorney with an extremely promising future. Papa Chibou becomes involved in their clandestine love-at-first-sight affair. What will happen when the World of Wax becomes bankrupt and Papa Chibou tries to save the statue of Napoleon from the auction block?

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