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Musique: F. Osmond Carr • Paroles: Adrian Ross • Livret: Adrian Ross • James T. Tanner • Production originale: 0 version mentionnée
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Genèse: In Town was first produced by George Edwardes at the Prince of Wales Theatre, opening on 15 October 1892, and transferred to the Gaiety Theatre on 26 December 1892, running for a successful 292 performances. It starred Arthur Roberts, together with Edmund Payne, Eric Lewis, and singing star Florence St John. Topsy Sinden danced in the piece.[4] The musical was produced on Broadway, for a run of 40 performances, opening on 6 September 1897 at the Knickerbocker Theatre, starring W. Louis Bradfield as Arthur Coddington and Marie Studholme as Kitty. In Town was one of the first Edwardian musical comedies on the London stage. It was lighter than a Gilbert and Sullivan style comic opera, but more coherent in construction than a burlesque. The piece initiated Tanner's and Edwardes's famous series of modern-dress musical shows and helped set the new fashion for the series of Gaiety Theatre musical hits that followed. Many of the best-known London couturiers began to design costumes for stage productions by the 1880s. The illustrated periodicals were eager to publish photographs of the actresses in the latest stage hits, and so the theatre became an excellent way for clothiers to publicise their latest fashions. After In Town, the Edwardian musical comedies would dominate the musical stage in Britain, and contribute to musical theatre throughout the English-speaking world and beyond, until the 1920s.[10]
Résumé: Captain Coddington, a penniless lad-about-town, gives a young aristocrat friend, Lord Clanside, a tour of the slightly naughty lifestyles both high and low, to be found in London. Coddington invites all the ladies of the Ambiguity Theatre to lunch; Clanside agrees to pay the bill if he is invited to the party. Afterwards, with several uninvited guests, they visit the theatre to see a rehearsal. Coddington romances the prima donna of the theatre and wins her.
Création: 15/10/1892 - Prince of Wales Theatre (Londres) - représ.
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Musique: Leo Fall • Paroles: Adrian Ross • Livret: A.M. Willner • Fritz Grünbaum • Production originale: 0 version mentionnée
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Genèse: It was first performed at the Theater an der Wien in Vienna on 2 November 1907, conducted by the composer and starring Mizzi Günther as Alice. An English adaptation, called The Dollar Princess opened in London at Daly's Theatre on 25 September 1909 and ran for 428 performances.
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Création: 2/11/1907 - Theater an der Wien (Vienne) - représ.
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Musique: Ivan Caryll • Lionel Monckton • Paroles: Adrian Ross • Percy Greenbank • Livret: James T. Tanner • Production originale: 2 versions mentionnées
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Genèse: Produced by George Edwardes, it opened at the Gaiety Theatre in London on 23 January 1909 and ran for an extremely successful 636 performances. It starred Gertie Millar, Edmund Payne and George Grossmith, Jr. The young Gladys Cooper played the small role of Lady Connie. The show also had a short Broadway run in 1910. It was revived at the Finborough Theatre, London, in May 2006. This was the first professional London production since 1910. The piece was regularly revived by amateur theatre groups, particularly in Britain, from the 1920s into the 1950s but it has been produced only rarely since then. Our Miss Gibbs was revived by Lyric Theatre in July and August 2011 at the Mountain View Center for the Performing Arts and the Lesher Center for the Arts in Walnut Creek, California. The revival featured a cast of 22 and a 9-piece orchestra.
Résumé: Mary Gibbs, a Yorkshire Lass, works in the flower department of Garrod’s Department Store. Her heart belongs to the bank clerk Harry Lancaster (who is really Lord Eynsford in disguise). Lord Eynsford is engaged to Lady Elizabeth Thanet, but she much prefers Hughie Pierrepoint, an amateur criminal. When Mary discovers Lord Eynsford’s deception, she leaves her job and goes off to the Franco-British Exhibition at White City. Lord Eynsford follows her, proves his honourable intentions, and all gets sorted out happily.
Création: 23/1/1909 - Gaiety Theatre (Londres) - 636 représ.
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Musique: Lionel Monckton • Paroles: Adrian Ross • Percy Greenbank • Livret: James T. Tanner • Production originale: 1 version mentionnée
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Genèse: The Dancing Mistress was presented by the impresario George Edwardes at the Royal Adelphi Theatre, opening on 19 October 1912. The piece, which followed the same composer's and authors' immensely successful The Quaker Girl, featured many of the performers from the earlier show, including the romantic leads, Gertie Millar and Joseph Coyne. It ran at the Adelphi until 21 June 1913. A touring company presented the piece in the British provinces, with Adele Crispin, John T. MacCallum and Laura Wright in the leading roles of Nancy, Teddy and Virginie.
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Création: 19/10/1912 - Adelphi Theatre (Londres) - 242 représ.
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Musique: Paul Rubens • Sidney Jones • Paroles: Adrian Ross • Percy Greenbank • Livret: James T. Tanner • Production originale: 3 versions mentionnées
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Genèse: La pièce fut créée à l'Adelphi Theatre de Londres le 18 octobre 1913 et connut une première série de 195 représentations. Une version américaine a été produite par Charles Frohman qui a eu connu un beau succès de 140 représentations au Knickerbocker Theatre (ouverture le 24 août 1914). Frohman a engagé le jeune Jerome Kern pour écrire cinq nouvelles chansons pour la partition avec le parolier Herbert Reynolds pour renforcer ce qu’il considérait comme un premier acte faible. Julia Sanderson et Donald Brian ont joué dans la production. Leur chanson "They Didn’t Believe Me" est devenue un succès. La comédie musicale a également tourné dans d’autres pays, dont l’Afrique du Sud, l’Australie et la Nouvelle-Zélande.
Résumé: Una Trance fuit sa maison et son mormonisme après la décision de son père de la "céder" à un habitant particulièrement horrible de Salt Lake City. Dans sa fuite, Una rencontre des bénévoles: Lord Amesham et sa fiancée, Dora; l’acteur Sandy Blair; un petit vendeur de jambon et de bœuf plutôt étrange, Trimmit et sa fiancée, Clancy, qui est aussi la bonne de Dora. Les choses deviennent plus mélodramatiques quand le redouté polygame attire Una et la moitié du chœur du Théâtre de la Folie dans sa demeure de Brixton, tandis que la police est sur une mauvaise piste à la poursuite de Trimmitt. qui a accidentellement ramassé un chapeau de Mormon dans un restaurant. Mais les détectives amateurs sont sur la bonne piste en suivant une traînée de confettis bleus que Una a laissé tomber dans son sillage. Enfin, Trimmit, déguisé en pompier, se précipite vers l’escalier de secours et, avec l’action de la pièce, tout le monde répare le Bal des Arts pour la fin des amours.
Création: 18/10/1913 - Adelphi Theatre (Londres) - 195 représ.
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Musique: Howard Talbot • Lionel Monckton • Paroles: Adrian Ross • Percy Greenbank • Livret: Fred Thompson • Percy Greenbank • Production originale: 1 version mentionnée
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During the gloomy days of World War I, audiences, including servicemen on leave, wanted light and uplifting entertainment, and they flocked to theatres to see lighthearted musical comedies, a number of which broke box-office records. It opened at the Adelphi Theatre in London on 14 September 1917, and ran for 801 performances – one of the longest runs of any musical theatre piece up to that time.
Genèse: During the gloomy days of World War I, audiences, including servicemen on leave, wanted light and uplifting entertainment, and they flocked to theatres to see lighthearted musical comedies, a number of which broke box-office records. These included The Bing Boys Are Here (1916), Chu Chin Chow (1916), and The Maid of the Mountains (1917). Almost as popular were The Boy, The Happy Day (1916) and Yes, Uncle! (1917). Greenbank had worked on a dozen shows with each of Monckton and Ross from 1900 to the time of The Boy, and Talbot and Thompson were also frequent collaborators of theirs in the first two decades of the 20th century. The plot of The Boy closely follows that of The Magistrate, although character names have been changed, and some of the original dialogue is retained. In the Play Pictorial feature, B.W. Findon's review of the musical praised the singing of Nellie Taylor and Peter Gawthhorne, and the comedy of W. H. Berry, as well as the production in general. It opened at the Adelphi Theatre in London on 14 September 1917, directed by Robert Courtneidge, under the management of Alfred Butt, and ran for 801 performances – one of the longest runs of any musical theatre piece up to that time. The musical was later produced in Australia, starring Gladys Moncrieff. It was also adapted for Broadway as Good Morning, Judge in 1919, by the same creative team, at the Shubert Theatre, running for 140 performances and then touring successfully. Two songs by George Gershwin were added to the score, including "I am so Young," published as "I was so Young (You were so Young)." It starred George Hassell (as Mr. Meebles), Charles King (as Hughie), Mollie King (as Joy Chatterton) and Edward Martindel (as Col. Bagot). Although the piece was revived several times by amateur British groups in the 1930s, it has not been seen since then.
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Création: 14/9/1917 - Adelphi Theatre (Londres) - 801 représ.
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Musique: Harold Fraser-Simon • Paroles: Adrian Ross • Harry Graham • Livret: Seymour Hicks • Production originale: 1 version mentionnée
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Résumé: Alf Wigg, qui travaille comme acrobate dans un cirque, est pris pour Gisardi, le directeur du cirque. Le cavalier Sanguinetti poursuit Gisardi pour de l’argent qu'il lui doit et pour avoir compromis Mme Gisardi. L’ouragan Harry, un costaud boxeur, en a aussi après Gisardi, qui l’a trompé sur un achat de terre. Pour échapper à leurs griffes, Alf se déguise en héritier d’un Duché écossais. Cependant, le véritable héritier, Dick Bythesea, cache sa véritable identité pour pouvoir poursuivre Jenny, la «chérie de la bague». A la fin du spectacle, Dick aura sa Jenny, et Alf se retrouvera avec Little Bounce, son clown chéri.
Création: 8/9/1923 - Adelphi Theatre (Londres) - représ.