Tags: Musical.
The Blue Paradise is a musical in a prologue and two acts with music by Edmund Eysler Sigmund Romberg and Leo Edwards lyrics primarily by Herbert Reynolds and a book by Edgar Smith based on the operetta Ein Tag im Paradies (A Day in Paradise 1913) by Eysler with original text by Leo Stein and Bela Jenbach. The story is set in a Viennese cafe where a man realizes that he cannot recapture his long lost love.The musical premiered on Broadway in 1915 and enjoyed a successful run.