Rip Van Winkle (1910 film) Catskill Mountains hundreds of years before, and had never been heard of since. The gnomes give Rip some magic schnapps to drink, and under its influence he goes to sleep for 20 years. When he awakes, he is an old man and in ragged clothes. His dog is dead, and his rifle has rusted away. He makes his way as best he can back to the village, and his own home. But there no one knows him. He finds his wife married to another man, his daughter grown to womanhood, and most of his old friends dead and gone. Rip,
Rip Van Winkle (operetta) Rip Van Winkle (operetta) Rip Van Winkle is an operetta in three acts by Robert Planquette. The English language libretto by Henry Brougham Farnie was based on the stories "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow" and "Rip Van Winkle" by Washington Irving after the play by Dion Boucicault and Joseph Jefferson. The operetta opened at the Royal Comedy Theatre in London on October 14, 1882, adapted by Dion Boucicault, and ran for a very successful 328 performances, starring Fred Leslie, W. S. Penley, Lionel Brough, Rose Moncreiff and H. B. Farnie. Others who joined the cast during the run included Fred