Operetta by Maurice Yvain
Book by Yves Mirande
Lyrics by Albert Willmetz
German lyrics by Hermann Haller and Rideamus
German dialogues by Kirstin Howein and Andrè Meyer
Money alone makes you happy - at least that's what an eccentric lady, who calls herself "La Comtesse", and Monsieur Du Pas de Vis believe. The only problem: Both have gambled away their entire fortune and are looking for new sources of income. So it's no wonder that they independently come up with the idea of marrying their children off to the richest possible couple. Eva, the Comtesse's daughter, and Bastien, the Monsieur's son, have fallen in love with each other. They intend to get married, but their parents know how to prevent this. From then on, a chain of misunderstandings, unhappy marriages and unexpected inheritances begins, which are immediately followed by another ruin, before the right couples finally find each other two years later. 1922 in Paris: The composer Maurice Yvain, just 31 years old, delights Parisian audiences with his operetta Ta Bouche. Within a year, the piece has been performed 416 times. In the same year, the first German-language production takes place in Berlin under the title Dein Mund... A year later, the sensational success also runs on Broadway.
Maurice Yvain composed numerous chansons for Maurice Chevalier, Polaire, Jean Gabin and Mistinguett, among others, and finally began to compose for musical theater. The music of his first imaginative operetta contains echoes of the rhythmic finesse of Jacques Offenbach's works as well as lascivious Parisian waltzes, chansons and cancans.
