From across the room, Shubert watches uneasily as Dorothy hands a copy of the operetta to Ziegfeld, who has agreed to go along with their ruse.Īlthough he sees through their game, Shubert finally agrees to produce the show, and Maytime is a huge success, elevating Sigmund to true celebrity status. Dorothy takes Sigmund to lunch at a fashionable restaurant where Shubert and his associates regularly dine, and leads him to producer Florenz Ziegfeld's table. After Sigmund repeatedly begs Townsend to consider producing his operetta Maytime, Dorothy comes up with a scheme to get the Shubert organization's attention. Sigmund churns out a string of commercial hits for Shubert, and despite his artistic frustration quickly becomes accustomed to material success. When Dorothy privately urges him to sign the contract in order to establish a name for himself, however, Sigmund agrees. After demonstrating with Anna how his song should have been sung, Sigmund proudly rejects the offer. Shubert and his associate, Bert Townsend, offer Sigmund a five-year contract but refuse to grant him artistic control over his work. On opening night, Sigmund waits eagerly to hear his composition, but is angry to find that his lovely ballad has been turned into a gaudy production number. Encouraged by actress Dorothy Donnelly, who is quick to recognize Sigmund's talent, Shubert buys a song for the first act finale of his new Broadway show starring Gaby Deslys. A slick music promoter, Berrison, comes in and listens to Anna sing one of Sigmund's songs, but dismisses the composer's work as old-fashioned "Viennese oom-pah-pah." Sigmund takes Berrison's challenge and tries his hand at a ragtime number, "Leg of Mutton," which quickly becomes a hit and gains the attention of theater impresario J. In the years before the first World War, young Hungarian composer Sigmund Romberg goes to his job as a musician at New York's Café Vienna, which is owned by the good-hearted Anna Mueller.
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