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He wrote his musicals in the style of operetta and often composed his music to the libretti of Christopher Hassall. In the s, Novello turned to acting, first in British films and then on stage, with considerable success in both. On stage, Novello played the title character in the first London production of Liliom Novello briefly went to Hollywood, but he soon returned to Britain, where he had more successes, especially on stage, appearing in his own lavish West End productions of musicals.
The song soon found its way into his musical, Perchance to Dream , the plot synopsis of the last act of which reads: "In , Valentine's grandson Bay wins the hand of Melody, the girl who represents the love that he had lost in earlier generations.
The romance finally lays the ghosts to rest. Ivor's shows were lush affairs, but by no means the simple Ruritanian fantasies derided by sophisticates — The Dancing Years puts the Nazis on stage, with fierce disapproval. Brecht it isn't, but its critical picture of the menace across the water packed a considerable punch in the immediately pre-war period in which it appeared; Ivor's heart was in the right place, as it generally was.
His last show — or rather the last show in which he appeared — was King's Rhapsody , which has a now oddly topical storyline concerning the heir to the throne abdicating under pressure from his long-lived mother, Queen Elana, in favour of his infant son. Novello's very last show, which opened during the run of King's Rhapsody , for the first time contained no part for Novello himself. Under the piquant title of Gay's the Word , it was a considerable departure from his other shows.
A brisk backstage comedy, its great hit song is the wildly energetic jazz number "Vitality", and it opens with "Ruritania," an outrageous and hilarious send-up of his own shows. Novello is full of surprises, in fact, not the least of which is that though in each of his musicals he wrote the leading part for himself, he never gave himself anything to sing in them. This in itself is surely unique: almost a formal innovation.
His formidable mother, Clara Novello Davies, was a singing teacher and choral conductor of some distinction. She maintained a base in Cardiff where, as David Ivor Davies, he was born in , but she taught, very successfully, in London and New York.
She was the archetypal stage mother, but her ambitions for Ivor were all musical. She wanted him to be an opera composer, to which end he was sent, as a boy, to study counterpoint and harmony with Herbert Brewer at Gloucester cathedral. Joe Loss and His Orchestra. Winifred Atwell. Ronald Binge and His Orchestra. Eric Johnson and His Orchestra. Max Jaffa and His Orchestra. The Bill Rayner Four. Mills, musical accompaniment directed by Brian Fahey.
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