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故事描述了上世纪六十年代所谓的「人类性行为探索者」William Masters和Virginia Johnson的生活及对当时流行文化的影响。据称正是因为这两个人对性爱进行深入研究，才触发了当时西方社会特别是美国的「性革命」。

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历史上仅有的8部获普利策戏剧奖的音乐剧之一。音乐剧黄金组合R&H，Richard Rodgers和Oscar Hammerstein II的代表作。该剧当时在托尼奖上同时拿下最佳音乐剧、最佳剧本、最佳词曲、最佳男女主角、最佳导演这六项重量级奖项，实属罕见。该剧也再次验证了Richard Rodgers和Oscar Hammerstein II在音乐剧领域的重要地位，而“音乐”与“戏剧”结合的概念，也在他们的手中逐渐成为日后音乐剧的主流形式。
Act I
On a South Pacific island during World War II, two half-Polynesian children,[9] Ngana and Jerome, happily sing as they play together ("Dites-Moi"). Ensign Nellie Forbush, a naïve U.S. Navy nurse from Little Rock, Arkansas, has fallen in love with Emile de Becque, a middle-aged French plantation owner, though she has known him only briefly. Even though everyone else is worried about the outcome of the war, Nellie tells Emile that she is sure everything will turn out all right ("Cockeyed Optimist"). Emile also loves Nellie, and each wonders if the other reciprocates his/her feelings ("Twin Soliloquies"). Emile expresses his feelings for Nellie, recalling how they met at the officers' club dance and instantly were attracted to each other ("Some Enchanted Evening"). Nellie, promising to think about their relationship, returns to the hospital. Emile calls Ngana and Jerome to him, revealing to the audience that they are his children, unbeknownst to Nellie.
Meanwhile, the restless American seabees, led by crafty Luther Billis, the sailors' leading comic relief, lament the absence of women to relieve their boredom. Navy nurses are commissioned officers and thus off-limits to enlisted men. There is one civilian woman on the island, nicknamed "Bloody Mary", a sassy middle-aged Tonkinese vendor of grass skirts, who engages the sailors in sarcastic, flirtatious banter as she tries to sell them her wares ("Bloody Mary"). Billis yearns to visit the nearby island of Bali Ha'i — which is off-limits to all but officers — supposedly to witness a Boar's Tooth Ceremony; the other sailors josh him, saying that his real motivation is to see the young French women there. Billis and the sailors further lament their lack of feminine companionship ("There is Nothing Like a Dame").
U.S. Marine Lieutenant Joseph Cable arrives on the island from Guadalcanal, having been sent to take part in a dangerous spy mission whose success could turn the tide of the war against Japan. Bloody Mary tries to persuade Cable to visit "Bali Ha'i", mysteriously telling him that it is his special island. Billis, seeing an opportunity, urges Cable to go. Cable meets with his commanding officers, Captain George Brackett and Commander William Harbison, who plan to ask Emile to help with the mission because he used to live on the island where the mission will take place. They ask Nellie to help them find out more about Emile's background, for example, his politics and why he left France. They have heard, for instance, that Emile committed a murder, and this might make him less than desirable for such a mission.
After thinking a bit more about Emile and deciding she has become attracted on the basis of little knowledge of him, Nellie tells the other nurses that she intends to spurn him ("I'm Gonna Wash That Man Right Outa My Hair"). Emile arrives unexpectedly and invites Nellie to a party where he will introduce her to his friends. Seeing how much he cares about her, Nellie realizes she is still in love with him, and accepts his invitation. Emile again declares his love and asks Nellie to marry him. When she mentions politics, he speaks of universal freedom, and describes fleeing France after resisting a local bully and choking him to death in self-defense. After hearing this, Nellie agrees to marry Emile. After he exits, Nellie joyously declares her love for Emile ("I'm in Love with a Wonderful Guy").
Cable's mission is to land on a Japanese-held island and report on Japanese ship movements. The Navy officers ask Emile to be Cable's guide, but he refuses their request because of his hopes for a new life with Nellie. Commander Harbison, the executive officer, tells Cable to go on leave until the mission can take place. Billis convinces Lt. Cable to take him to Bali Ha'i. There, Billis participates in the native ceremony, while Bloody Mary introduces Cable to her beautiful daughter, Liat, with whom he must communicate in French. Believing that Liat's only chance at a better life is to marry an American officer, Mary leaves Liat alone with Cable. The two are instantly attracted to each other and make love ("Younger Than Springtime"). Billis and the rest of the crew are ready to leave the island, yet must wait for Cable who, unbeknownst to them, is with Liat ("Bali Ha'i" (Reprise)). Bloody Mary proudly tells Billis that Cable is going to be her son-in-law.
Meanwhile, after Emile's party, Emile and Nellie reflect on how happy they are to be in love (Reprises of "A Wonderful Guy", "Twin Soliloquies", "Cockeyed Optimist" and "I'm Gonna Wash That Man Right Outa My Hair"). Emile introduces Nellie to Jerome and Ngana. Though she finds them charming, she is shocked when Emile reveals that they are his children by a native woman, now deceased. Nellie is unable to overcome her deep-seated racial prejudices and tearfully leaves Emile, after which he reflects sadly on what might have been ("Some Enchanted Evening" (Reprise)).
Act II
It is Thanksgiving Day. The seabees and nurses dance in a holiday revue titled "Thanksgiving Follies". In the past week, an epidemic of malaria has hit the island of Bali Ha'i. Having visited Bali Ha'i often to be with Liat, Cable is also ill, but escapes from the hospital to be with Liat. As Liat and Cable spend more time together, Bloody Mary is delighted. She encourages them to continue their carefree life on the island ("Happy Talk") and urges them to marry. Cable, aware of his family's prejudices, says he cannot marry a Tonkinese girl. Bloody Mary furiously drags her distraught daughter away, telling Cable that Liat must now marry a much older French plantation owner instead. Cable laments that Liat is no longer part of his life ("Younger Than Springtime" [Reprise]).
For the final number of the Thanksgiving Follies, Nellie performs a comedy burlesque dressed as a sailor singing the praises of "his" sweetheart ("Honey Bun"). Billis plays Honey Bun, dressed in a blond wig, grass skirt and coconut-shell bra. After the show, Emile asks Nellie to reconsider. She insists that she cannot feel the same way about him since she knows about his children's Polynesian mother.
Emile asks Cable why he and Nellie have such prejudices. Cable, filled with self-loathing, replies that "it's not something you're born with", yet it is an ingrained part of their upbringing ("You've Got to Be Carefully Taught"). He also vows that if he gets out of the war alive, he won't go home to the United States. Emile imagines what might have been ("This Nearly Was Mine"). Dejected and feeling that he has nothing to lose, he agrees to join Cable on his dangerous mission. The mission begins with plenty of air support. Offstage, Billis stows away on the plane, falls out, and ends up in the ocean waiting to be rescued; the massive rescue operation inadvertently becomes a diversion that allows Emile and Cable to land on the other side of the island undetected. The two send back reports on Japanese ships' movements in the "Slot"; American aircraft intercept and destroy the Japanese ships. When the Japanese Zeros strafe the Americans' position, Emile narrowly escapes, but Cable is killed.
Nellie learns of Cable's death and that Emile is missing. She realizes that she was foolish to reject Emile because of the race of his children's mother. Bloody Mary and Liat come to Nellie asking where Cable is; Mary explains that Liat refuses to marry anyone but him. Nellie comforts Liat. Cable and Emile's espionage work has made it possible for a major offensive, "Operation Alligator", to begin. The previously idle sailors, including Billis, go off to battle.
Nellie spends time with Jerome and Ngana and soon comes to love them. While the children are teaching her to sing "Dites-Moi," suddenly Emile's voice joins them. Emile has returned, to discover that Nellie has overcome her prejudices and has fallen in love with his children. Emile, Nellie and the children rejoice ("Dites-Moi" (Reprise)).

第一幕
("Overture")
劇場正準備上演改編版的馴悍記，眾人都很忙碌。("Another Op'nin' Another Show")飾演男配角的比爾出了去賭錢，其女友飾演女配角的露易絲甚為不悅。("Why Can't You Behave?")男主角弗雷和莉莉出場，二人原為情侶，後分開了卻彼此仍愛著對方。二人回憶以前的事。("Wunderbar")弗雷買了些花送給露易絲以表揚她，陰差陽錯卻送了給莉莉，讓她以為二人可舊情復熾。("So In Love")
好戲上場，("We Open In Venice")故事女配角美麗溫柔的比安卡因為大姐的桀悍一直嫁不出去，使男人們十分苦惱。("Tom, Dick or Harry")男配角柳辛斯奧向男主角皮魯斯奧求助，他於是要會一會這個恐怖的姐姐。("I've Come to Wive It Weathily In Padua")女主角美麗而潑辣的姬特出場，並表明她憎恨男人。("I Hate Men")回到後台，莉莉知道那花不是弗雷為她而送而老羞成怒，並開始不合作，勉強之下完上成半場，但這使她屁股開花。("Were Thine That Speical Face")
第二幕
中場休息，人們在後台幻想表演之後風流快活。("Too Darn Hot")這時比爾欠了一身債，卻把名字填上弗雷的名字，弗雷卻順水推舟，要收數佬們監督不讓莉莉離開。露易絲想為比爾道歉，被斥退。下半場開始，皮魯斯奧回憶風流日子。("Where Is The Life That Late I Led?") 後台比爾卻捉到露易絲和來接莉莉的富翁調情，露易絲重申永遠忠於一人　－　以她的方式。("Always True To You (In My Fashion)")在露易絲演完台上後，("Bianca")弗雷發覺自己依然喜歡莉莉。("So In Love (Reprise)")
此時收數佬們接到電話，說黑幫頭目被仇殺，不能追數了，便離開他們，臨走還勉勵弗雷。("Brush Up Your Shakespeare")莉莉隨富翁離去，弗雷動之以情，不果。戲劇到了結尾部份，代替莉莉的演員遲遲不出來，一出來卻發現便是莉莉。("I Am Ashamed That Women Are So Simple")她特意向弗雷眨眨眼，弗雷會意並完結這套戲劇　－　亦是整套音樂劇。("Finale: Kiss Me, Kate")

Frank Wildhorn, Christopher Hampton and Don Black musicalize the Bram Stoker novel about a mysterious Transylvanian count in Victorian London who seduces young women for their blood.

19世纪60年代，英国女教师Anna Leonowens受聘担任暹罗国王所有孩子的私人教师，随后她将自己的经历记录下来，由Margaret Landon整理后，以传记小说形式出版。小说取得巨大成功，在20世纪上半叶先后改编成话剧和电影。1951年，百老汇音乐剧黄金组合R&H，Richard Rodgers和Oscar Hammerstein II将此改编为音乐剧，成为两人又一经典力作。剧中的名曲包括“I Whistle a Happy Tune”、“I Have Dreamed”、“We Kiss in a Shadow”等。此后在百老汇和伦敦都多次被复排，其中1996年复排版获托尼奖最佳复排音乐剧奖，1985年原版国王的扮演者Yul Brynner，因这一经典角色获托尼奖特别大奖。

风流寡妇（Die lustige Witwe）是弗朗兹·莱哈尔一部三幕的轻歌剧。脚本由维克多·里昂和莱奥·斯坦根据Henry Meilhac的轻松喜剧L'attaché d'ambassade改编而成的。首演于1905年12月30日在维也纳的维也纳剧院。歌剧长约80分钟。
风流寡妇是莱哈尔最成功的轻歌剧。从1905到作曲家逝世的1948年，该剧上演超过三千万次。
故事发生于巴黎。种种前因，如家庭出生，阻挡着伯爵丹尼洛与领地上前女仆汉娜交往。他试图通过巴黎的轻佻女郎去忘却这一不快。同时汉娜却和一个富有的银行家结婚了。但银行家在婚礼当天就去逝了。在驻巴黎大使一个宴会上他们两人重遇。汉娜现在是富甲一方的寡妇，在场的男士都莫不想和她结婚。巴黎大使却是个爱国者。他不能忍受一笔这么大的财产流出自己祖国。他要求丹尼洛尽全力和汉娜结婚。丹尼洛开始还铁口说不，但慢慢又重燃了自己对汉娜的旧情，但又不敢直言。但后来两人毕竟还是走到一起，丹尼洛答应娶汉娜为妻。汉娜说，根据前夫遗嘱，她一旦结婚，财产就被剥夺了。但丹尼洛还是要娶她。汉娜这才说，财产虽然被剥夺，但是却会转到其新夫婿身上。歌剧以大团圆结束。
ウィーンでは年末恒例のオペレッタとして有名な「メリー・ウィドウ」、優美な音楽と心沸き立つ踊り、そして笑いの洪水の中で繰り広げられる、お洒落な大人の恋物語。斬新な手法で大胆にミュージカル化する本作は、年末を飾るに相応しい豪華さと楽しさを併せ持つ作品です。