With a book by Anna Marie Barlow based on the German fairy tale and its treatment by the Brothers Grimm, music by Robert Colby and lyrics by Colby and Nita Jonas, Rumpelstiltskin (eventually re-tooled as Half Past Wednesday) opened April 6, 1962 at the off-Broadway Orpheum Theatre. In it, Dom De Luise, then a new comedian on the scene, played the King in the familiar märchen of a miller’s daughter who spins straw into gold with the help of an elf.
With a book by Anna Marie Barlow based on the German fairy tale and its treatment by the Brothers Grimm, music by Robert Colby and lyrics by Colby and Nita Jonas, Rumpelstiltskin (eventually re-tooled as Half Past Wednesday) opened April 6, 1962 at the off-Broadway Orpheum Theatre. In it, Dom De Luise, then a new comedian on the scene, played the King in the familiar märchen of a miller’s daughter who spins straw into gold with the help of an elf.
With a book by Anna Marie Barlow based on the German fairy tale and its treatment by the Brothers Grimm, music by Robert Colby and lyrics by Colby and Nita Jonas, Rumpelstiltskin (eventually re-tooled as Half Past Wednesday) opened April 6, 1962 at the off-Broadway Orpheum Theatre. In it, Dom De Luise, then a new comedian on the scene, played the King in the familiar märchen of a miller’s daughter who spins straw into gold with the help of an elf.