1. Chapter Ten
“Come On and Hear” : Popular Music, Theater, and Dance at the Turn of the Century

2. Burlesque (skin & low comedy)

3. Vaudeville (variety - you name it)
Ex. Vaudeville
Ex. Song & Dance

4. Revues (topical spectacles)
Ex. Ziegfeld Style Finale (1929)

5. Musical Comedy (story & songs)
Oh Boy – Princess Theater (1917) "Till the Clouds Roll by" Jerome Kern, P.G. Wodehouse & Guy Bolton

6. Operetta / Light Opera
Franz Lehar ( ), The Merry Widow (1905) English Adaptations – London & US (1907)

7. Opera (It ain’t over till…)
MUH 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)

8. 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 ( ): "Rock-a-Bye..." , "Mammy" , - Gershwin, "Swanee" (his 1st hit song)
Princess Theater shows ( ) - Kern, Wodehouse & Bolton in small Shubert theater - songs help move story along

9. George M. Cohan (1878-1942) Vaudeville Family
Writer, composer, producer, star shows ( )
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)