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There seems to be little doubt that George Bernard Shaw could have been – had he so desired – as great an operetta librettist as he was a dramatist. For just as his play Pygmalion served as the basis upon which the phenomenal My Fair Lady was built, so fifty years ago it was Shaw's Arms and the Man that provided the foundation for the enchanting and enduring Chocolate Soldier. In fact, it was the Irish playwright himself who had once described Arms and the Man as “an opera bouffe without the music.”