Operetta Research Center » Black Lives Matter http://operetta-research-center.org The #1 Archive for Musical Theater Sat, 21 Mar 2026 17:23:50 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=3.9.40 Revisting “Au Dahomey” (1892). Or: A Blackface King Béhazin? http://operetta-research-center.org/revisting-au-dahomey-1892-blackface-king-behazin/ http://operetta-research-center.org/revisting-au-dahomey-1892-blackface-king-behazin/#comments Sun, 19 Jun 2022 12:26:43 +0000 http://operetta-research-center.org/?p=23669 I came upon this grand 1892 poster this week… I didn’t know anything about the show, my experience of the

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]]> http://operetta-research-center.org/new-porgy-bess-marin-alsop-angel-blue/feed/ 0 RSC: Reconstructing Erik Charell’s Shakespeare Adaptation “Swingin’ the Dream” http://operetta-research-center.org/rsc-brings-erik-charells-shakespeare-adaptation-swingin-dream-back-concert/ http://operetta-research-center.org/rsc-brings-erik-charells-shakespeare-adaptation-swingin-dream-back-concert/#comments Fri, 01 Jan 2021 13:01:21 +0000 http://operetta-research-center.org/?p=21264 When the Shakespeare adaptation Swingin‘ the Dream opened on Broadway in 1939 it followed Erik Charell’s earlier XXL-sized Broadway hit

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