# Dream City

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{{For|the business district in Surat, India|Diamond Research and Mercantile City}}
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thumb|upright=1.2|Scene from ''Dream City''
'''''Dream City''''' is an [operetta](/source/operetta) in two acts with music by [Victor Herbert](/source/Victor_Herbert) and a libretto by [Edgar Smith](/source/Edgar_Smith_(librettist)). The show contained a one-act [musical burlesque](/source/Victorian_burlesque) ''[The Magic Knight](/source/The_Magic_Knight)'' which parodies [Richard Wagner](/source/Richard_Wagner)'s opera ''[Lohengrin](/source/Lohengrin_(opera))''.<ref>[http://www.ibdb.com/production.asp?ID=426983 ''The Magic Knight''], Internet Broadway Database</ref>

The original production opened at [Weber's](/source/Joe_Weber_(vaudevillian)) Music Hall in [New York City](/source/New_York_City) on December 24, 1906, and ran for 102 performances until March 23, 1907.<ref>{{cite book|first1=Burns|last1=Mantle|first2=Garrison P.|last2=Sherwood|first3=John Arthur|last3=Chapman|title=The Best Plays of 1899-1909|year=1944|publisher=[Dodd, Mead & Co.](/source/Dodd%2C_Mead_%26_Co.)|page=529|chapter=Dream City}}</ref> Painter [Ernest Albert](/source/Ernest_Albert) designed the production's sets.<ref>{{cite book|title=American Song: A-S|first=Ken|last= Bloom|year=1996|publisher=[Schirmer Books](/source/Schirmer_Books)|isbn=9780028645735|page=271|chapter=Dream City}}</ref> 

==References==
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==External links==
* [https://www.ibdb.com/broadway-production/dream-city-6302 ''Dream City''], Internet Broadway Database

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Category:English-language operettas
Category:1906 operas
Category:Operas by Victor Herbert
Category:Musicals by Edgar Smith
Category:Musicals by Victor Herbert

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