Sweet Mystery

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ellen M. Peck
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Musical Theater ◽  
Full Length ◽  
Working Relationships ◽  
Early Twentieth Century ◽  
Professional Theater ◽  
Standard Practices

Rida Johnson Young (ca. 1869–1926) was one of the most prolific female playwrights of her time, as well as a lyricist and librettist in the musical theater. She wrote more than thirty full-length plays, operettas, and musical comedies, five hundred songs, and four novels. Despite her extensive output, no significant study of her work has been produced. This book examines her musical theater works with in-depth analyses of her librettos and lyrics, as well as her working relationships with other writers, performers, and producers, particularly Lee and J. J. Shubert. Using archival materials such as original typescripts, correspondence, and reviews, the book contextualizes Young’s work within the milieu of the early-twentieth-century professional theater and provides a window into the standard practices of writing and production of the era. The works examined are Naughty Marietta, Lady Luxury, The Red Petticoat, When Love Is Young, His Little Widows, Her Soldier Boy, Maytime, Sometime, Little Simplicity, and The Dream Girl.

The Women Who Wrote

Sweet Mystery ◽  
2020 ◽  
pp. 1-14
Author(s):  
Ellen M. Peck
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Cultural Change ◽  
Physical Attractiveness ◽  
Musical Theater ◽  
Social Conditions ◽  
Victorian Era ◽  
Early Twentieth Century ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Press

This chapter introduces some of the female playwrights of the early twentieth century and examines some of the social conditions under which they worked. It argues that many of them represented a major cultural change for women of the period who were leaving the Victorian era behind and forging new paths in the young century. But the press frequently undermined their efforts by presenting them as wives instead of individuals, scrutinizing their physical attractiveness, and implying that playwriting was a hobby on the same level as gardening or homemaking. The chapter then shifts to the challenges of writing for the musical theater and collaborating with other writers. It concludes with examples of Young’s correspondence with the Shuberts and demonstrates her ability to navigate the business side of the theater.

The Golden Apple

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Howard Pollack
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Musical Theater ◽  
Early Twentieth Century ◽  
Short Run ◽  
American Musical Theater ◽  
Judgment Of Paris ◽  
Twentieth Century America ◽  
The Phoenix

One of Latouche’s masterpieces, the opera The Golden Apple, with composer Jerome Moross, reimagines the Judgment of Paris story and the Homeric epics through the prism of early-twentieth-century America. Hanya Holm directed, and William and Jean Eckart did the memorable designs. First premiering at the Phoenix Theatre off-Broadway, it moved to Broadway for a short run there. Although more a critical than a popular sucess—it won the Donaldson Award, the Page One Award, and the New York Critics’ Circle Award for the season’s best musical—it remains a favorite among connoisseurs of American musical theater.

“We Know We Belong to the Land”: The Theatricality of Assimilation in Rodgers and Hammerstein's Oklahoma!

PMLA ◽  
1998 ◽  
Vol 113 (1) ◽  
pp. 77-89 ◽  
Author(s):  
Andrea Most
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Musical Theater ◽  
United States History ◽  
Early Twentieth Century ◽  
Rodgers And Hammerstein ◽  
American Society ◽  
Theatrical Strategies ◽  
States History

In the early twentieth century, a period of mass immigration, Jewish assimilation into mainstream American society was largely a theatrical venture. The musical theater, a predominantly Jewish field that portrayed a variety of American experiences, offers powerful illustrations of theatrical strategies of Jewish assimilation. The groundbreaking Rodgers and Hammerstein musical Oklahoma! (1943), created during one of the most anti-Semitic periods in United States history, exemplifies how ethnic outsiders demonized a racial other in an effort to be considered white and thus to be included in the utopian (theatrical) community of America.

scholarly journals МІСТЕРІАЛЬНО-СЛАВОСЛОВНІ АСПЕКТИ ФРАНЦУЗЬКОГО МУЗИЧНОГО ТЕАТРУ ПОЧАТКУ ХХ СТОЛІТТЯ (НА ПРИКЛАДІ «ЖОНГЛЕРА БОГОМАТЕРІ» Ж. МАССНЕ)

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Admink Admink
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Significant Influence ◽  
Musical Theater ◽  
Early Medieval ◽  
Liturgical Movement ◽  
Early Twentieth Century

Зосереджена увага на культурному феномені уславлення, виявлено містеріально-славослівну специфіку опери Ж. Массне «Жонглер Богоматері» і особливості її жанрово-інтонаційного втілення. Висвітлено значне посилення впливу християнської містерії на жанрово-стильову специфіку французького музичного театру початку ХХ ст. Визначено не лише духовно-естетичні настанови творчості композитора, але й його епохи, позначеноїшуканнями французького «католицького відродження», пов’язано з ранньосередньовічними духовними і культурно-історичними традиціями епохи «неподіленої Церкви», що склали базис «Літургійного руху» в Франції.Ключові слова: «Жонглер Богоматері» Ж. Массне, музичний театр Ж. Массне, міракль, містерія, славослів’я, жонглер. The articlefocusesontheculturalphenomenonofglorification, reveals the mysterious and glorious specifics of J. Massne's opera «The Juggler of Our Lady» and the peculiarities of its genre-intonational transformation. The significant influence of the Christian mystery in the genre-style specificity of the French musical theater of the early twentieth century. Not only the spiritual and aesthetic attitudes of the composer's creativity, but also his epoch, marked by the quest for French "Catholic revival", connected with the early medieval spiritual and cultural-historical traditions of the «undivided Church» era, were determined, which formed the basis of the Liturgical Movement in France.Key words: «Our Lady's Juggler» by J. Massenet, the Musical Theater of J. Massenet, miracle, mystery, praise, juggler.

Chin-Chun-Chan:Popular Sinophobia in Early Twentieth-Century Mexico City

2021 ◽  
Vol 78 (2) ◽  
pp. 279-318
Author(s):  
Robert M. Buffington
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
National Identity ◽  
Working Class ◽  
Mexico City ◽  
Musical Theater ◽  
Social Commentary ◽  
Penny Press ◽  
Early Twentieth Century ◽  
Political Symbol ◽  
Popular Language

AbstractThis article looks at popular responses to the zarzuela Chin-Chun-Chan and the issues that surfaced around its timely subject in early twentieth-century Mexico City. The principal source is the Mexico City satiric penny press for workers, supplemented by somewhat less polemical broadsides, both sold on the streets of the capital. Aimed mostly at working-class Mexicans, these sources offer a glimpse at popular attitudes circulating in a public sphere otherwise dominated by the perspective of educated elites. The article has four sections. First, it briefly reviews social commentary on the democratization of musical theater. Second, it examines Chin-Chun-Chan as a political symbol that crystalized around working-class complaints about the Porfirian regime, especially its alleged disregard for Mexican workers and Mexican national identity. Third, it analyzes the ways in which the phrase “Chin-Chun-Chan” entered popular language as a racial signifier for a range of things, some of which bore little relation to its theatrical origins. Finally, it links popular Sinophobia in late Porfirian Mexico City to the virulent anti-Chinese campaigns in northern Mexico, which played a key role in defining national identity after the 1910 Revolution, and to the “hemispheric orientalism” that has characterized anti-Asian sentiments throughout the Americas.

Some Polish Composers of To-Day

Tempo ◽  
1948 ◽  
pp. 25-28
Author(s):  
Andrzej Panufnik
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Fertile Soil ◽  
Early Twentieth Century ◽  
Progressive Group ◽  
Karol Szymanowski

It is ten years since KAROL SZYMANOWSKI died at fifty-four. He was the most prominent representative of the “radical progressive” group of early twentieth century composers, which we call “Young Poland.” In their manysided and pioneering efforts they prepared the fertile soil on which Poland's present day's music thrives.

V1214: Edward Loughborough Keyes: An Early Twentieth Century Leader In Urology

2004 ◽  
Vol 171 (4S) ◽  
pp. 320-320
Author(s):  
Peter J. Stahl ◽  
E. Darracott Vaughan ◽  
Edward S. Belt ◽  
David A. Bloom ◽  
Ann Arbor
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Early Twentieth Century
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