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Death Takes a Holiday is a musical with music and lyrics by Maury Yeston and a book by Peter Stone and Thomas Meehan. It is adapted from the 1924 Italian play La Morte in Vacanza by Alberto Casella, which was translated in English for Broadway in 1929 by Walter Ferris.
Death Takes a Holiday. Synopsis: Death decides to take a holiday from his usual business to see what it is like to be a mortal. Posing as Prince Sirki, he spends 3 days with Duke Lambert and his guests at his dukal estate.
He is Death! What do you mean? His Majesty, Death, amusing himself on a holiday. No, no, Lambert! Amusing himself with love. Now, you take one step to save her and she's lost. If you won't think of yourselves, think of her. Perhaps you can tell me what I have been doing. I think I can, almost. Tell me. I think you've been holding life in your ...
Death Takes a Holiday unfolds in the mystical realm between life and death. Set against the backdrop of Italy, Death takes on human form and decides to experience life by mingling with mortals.
Death Takes a Holiday is a 1934 American pre-Code romantic drama starring Fredric March, Evelyn Venable and Guy Standing. It is based on the 1924 Italian play La morte in vacanza by Alberto Casella (1891–1957), as adapted in English for Broadway in 1929 by Walter Ferris.
Music and Lyrics by Maury Yeston Book by Peter Stone and Thomas Meehan. Based on the dramatic play by Alberto Casella Rewritten for the American stage by Walter Ferris Originally produced by Messrs. Shubert. Although “death” is in the title, the operative word is “holiday!”.
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In Death Takes a Holiday, it's just after World War I and the loneliest of souls arrives at an Italian villa disguised as a handsome young Prince, and for the first time experiences the joys and heartbreaks of life.
