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Shop o Songs
"Shop o Songs" by Leon Schiller, (sung in Polish with English narration) Polish popular songs, from the 15th century to the 1920's, presented, as musical vigniettes in a fully staged presentation with sets and costumes, with scenes from the life of Polish gentry - Sarmacja) - Troubles with the soldiers- (Klopoty z zolnierzami, Suburban life - Przedmiescie and Bochema - the Bohemians, presented by 4-5 singer/actors to piano accompaniment. Production staff of 3 to 5. Fun entertainment for young and old.
During the Warsaw Uprising of 1944 Leon Shiller led the theatre brigade, and they would make productions at the front line. After the Uprising collapsed, Schiller, by then a second lieutenant of the Home Army, was taken to the Murnau oflag. There he was involved in theatrical activities and wrote a lot. After the oflag was liberated by the US army, he moved to Lingen near the Dutch border, where he set up the Boguslawski Teatr Ludowy under the patronage of the Polish YMCA. There he produced GODY WESELNE and KRAM Z PIOSENKAMI / SHOP OF SONGS, and showed them in a number of places within the English occupation zone in Germany as well as in Holland.
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Leon Shiller
Born April 14, 1887 in Krakow
Died March 25, 1954 in Warsaw