Chapter Ten “Come On and Hear” : Popular Music, Theater, and Dance at the Turn of the Century
Burlesque (skin & low comedy)
Vaudeville (variety - you name it) Ex. Vaudeville Ex. Song & Dance
Revues (topical spectacles) Ex. Ziegfeld Style Finale (1929)
Musical Comedy (story & songs) Oh Boy – Princess Theater (1917) "Till the Clouds Roll by" Jerome Kern, P.G. Wodehouse & Guy Bolton
Operetta / Light Opera Franz Lehar (1870-1948), The Merry Widow (1905) English Adaptations – London & US (1907)
Opera (It ain’t over till…) MUH 3633 - Music in the United States Opera (It ain’t over till…) 9/13/2018 Die Walküre, Act III La Traviata “Addio del pasato” DAY 25 (27 Oct 17)
Early Musical Comedy (simplified) The Black Crook (1866) - Faust legend, girls in tights, etc. Harrigan & Hart (1870s-80s) - ethnic humor in sketch comedy w/ songs - "Mulligan Guard" British imports (1890s-1900s) - w/ interpolations (newly added songs) - Sinbad (1918-19): "Rock-a-Bye..." , "Mammy" , - Gershwin, "Swanee" (his 1st hit song) Princess Theater shows (1915-18) - Kern, Wodehouse & Bolton in small Shubert theater - songs help move story along
George M. Cohan (1878-1942) Vaudeville Family Writer, composer, producer, star - 50 shows (1904-20) Over 300 songs ASCAP “The Four Cohans” PBS Broadway George M Cohan "I'm a Yankee Doodle Dandy" "Give My Regards to Broadway“ "Over There" - studio recording by George M. Cohan Little Johnny Jones (1904)