On the Razzle

On the Razzle (Einen Jux will er sich machen)

    Alternative Title: He Will Go on a Spree; The Merchant of Yonkers; The Matchmaker

    Author: Johann Nestroy

    First Performance: 1842, Vienna

    Published: 1844

    First English Translation: 1939

    Genre: Farce with songs in 4 acts; German prose

    Setting: Vienna, and Zangler's home in a neighbouring town, early 19th c.

    Cast: 14m, 7f

Weinberl, assistant to a grocer, is put in charge of the shop while Zangler his employer is away. However, impelled to undertake a big adventure, he and the apprentice Christopherl set off for Vienna. Seeing Zangler, they seek refuge in the salon of the fashionable Madame Knorr. In order to explain his presence here, Weinberl pretends to be the new husband of the rich widow Frau von...

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