By Peter Filichia -- Long before one play by George Bernard Shaw (Pygmalion) became a musical (My Fair Lady in 1956), there was another: GBS's 1894 play Arms and the Man became the Oscar Straus operetta The Chocolate Solider opened in his hometown of Vienna in 1908, on Broadway in 1909, and in London in 1910. While some recordings made by the original London cast still exist, their sound is horrific. Think of yo…
SOURCE: Masterworks Broadway at 12:25AM on November 16, 2010