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The first act is set in
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Goldene Kale (The Golden Bride) is a 1923 comic operetta, written in the style of Gilbert and Sullivan and Viennese Operetta with elements of klezmer, Jewish cantorial music, Eastern European folk music, ragtime and jazz. Di Goldene Kale was the hit show of 1923, running for 18 weeks at Kessler's
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in New York, when the archivist, Chana Mlotek, suggested that he should speak to her son, Zalmen, artistic director of the
National Yiddish Theatre Folksbiene. Ochs and Mlotek were eventually able to assemble a "lead sheet, individual parts, a typescript of the dialogue and 13 recordings" of parts
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The second act brings
Goldele and several friends across the sea, seeking to go from rags to riches and live the American Dream. They are adapting to the hustle and bustle of New York City. The would-be grooms converge, but which one of them has found Goldele's mother and with it, the hand of the
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In the early 1990s, musicologist
Michael Ochs, discovered parts of the operetta's score and libretto in an archive at Harvard's Loeb Music Library where he was the Richard F. French Music Librarian. He translated it into English and it was displayed as part of an exhibition, then returned to
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estate and meet her birth mother, whilst potentially finding love along the way. She is suddenly pursued by every young man from her village, including the handsome university student Misha, whom she loves. But
Goldele announces that she will marry whoever can find her long lost mother.
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