from the hood quote it certainly looks as though it's altered enough and both versions were successful enough for each to have a separate article that's one issue although i do wonder about the sadler's wells version if it had a new book and lyrics it clearly wasn't hood and ross's version so is it a version of count or of graf does anyone know about the music as for the other i'd say it's definitely an operetta unless we can prove some substantial alteration of the music style vocal range whatnot it's the music from an operetta and the show is an operetta on an unrelated note doesn't anyone who's already worked on this article know how the plot resolves things work out okay and there's pretty music isn't quote what one hopes to get out of a synopsis