Susan Graham sings the title role of the fabulous woman of the world who sets out to conquer glamorous old Paris and get the one thing that has eluded her—a commitment from her playboy first love.

Nostalgia has come home to roost on Broadway. For the fourth* time in nine months an oldtime Viennese-type operetta started packing in the customers. This time it was Franz Lehar’s The Merry Widow.

Franz Lehar, composer of Adolf Hitler’s favorite operetta, The Merry Widow, still lives in Vienna. His friends say he cannot get out. He has paid out millions of marks to safeguard his wife, a ...