http://operetta-research-center.org/boylesque-meet-mr-henry-e-dixey/ The #1 Archive for Musical Theater Fri, 24 Apr 2026 23:10:30 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=3.9.40 http://operetta-research-center.org/boylesque-meet-mr-henry-e-dixey/#comment-10530 Fri, 08 Jul 2022 23:56:01 +0000 http://operetta-research-center.org/?p=3735#comment-10530 Dear Mr. Gänzl,
You missed one highly important fact linking Dixey and Sandow. Sandow’s first public appearance on the US stage was immediately following the presentation of the 1893 revival of Adonis. The curtain dropped on Dixey as he turned back into stone. It reopened on Sandow in the same pose, but considerably less clothing. (See John Kasson. 2001. Houdini, Tarzan and the Perfect Man: The White Male Body and the Challenge of Modernity in America. New York: Hill and Wang, p.25.) It was at one of these performances that Zeigfeld “discovered” Sandow.

]]> http://operetta-research-center.org/boylesque-meet-mr-henry-e-dixey/#comment-10381 Tue, 19 Apr 2022 08:05:58 +0000 http://operetta-research-center.org/?p=3735#comment-10381 The original mancuscript of ADONIS ia extant, with the family of its author, William Bain Gill.

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