Operetta Research Center » Lydia Thompson

A Legendary American Burlesque: “Evangeline” (1874), Beautiful Country Girls & A Dancing Heifer

kevin — Sat, 03 Oct 2020 09:40:31 +0000

A burlesque of Longfellow’s poem of the same name, the extravaganza Evangeline followed the trials and tribulations of its heroine

kevin — Fri, 27 Sep 2019 09:08:44 +0000

I first came seriously in contact with F. C. Burnand’s burlesque, Ixion, when working on my biography of burlesque megastar,

kevin — Sat, 05 Jan 2019 09:08:04 +0000

Originally produced at Baden-Baden during the 1869 summer season, with the young Mdlle Périer in its principal travesty rôle, La

kevin — Sat, 01 Dec 2018 11:30:05 +0000

To say precisely who were the first English dancers to perform the cancan in the English-language theatre is pretty impossible.

kevin — Sat, 01 Jul 2017 20:38:22 +0000

Last night, I was researching in ancient texts, trying to track down the history of a burlesque blonde who went

kevin — Tue, 26 Aug 2014 05:59:21 +0000

Lydia Thompson [Eliza Hodges Thompson] is one of the theatre’s ‘legends’, and as in the case of other such legendary

kevin — Thu, 19 Jun 2014 08:58:11 +0000

“Gender Studies” are something on everyone’s lips these days. Yet, somewhat surprisingly, the operetta world has hardly taken note of