Operetta Research Center » Richard C. Norton 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 David Monod’s “Vaudeville & The Making Of Modern Entertainment” 1890-1925 http://operetta-research-center.org/david-monods-vaudeville-making-modern-entertainment-1890-1925/ http://operetta-research-center.org/david-monods-vaudeville-making-modern-entertainment-1890-1925/#comments Sat, 24 Oct 2020 09:31:36 +0000 http://operetta-research-center.org/?p=20755 David Monod, professor of American social and cultural history, has undertaken a massive challenge in presenting a history of American

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]]> http://operetta-research-center.org/david-monods-vaudeville-making-modern-entertainment-1890-1925/feed/ 1 “Eubie Blake: Rags, Rhythm and Race” By Richard Carlin & Ken Bloom http://operetta-research-center.org/eubie-blake-rags-rhythm-race-richard-carlin-ken-bloom/ http://operetta-research-center.org/eubie-blake-rags-rhythm-race-richard-carlin-ken-bloom/#comments Sat, 01 Aug 2020 18:34:49 +0000 http://operetta-research-center.org/?p=20317 Eubie Blake: Rags, Rhythm and Race arrives as a most welcome and long overdue biography of pianist and composer Eubie

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]]> http://operetta-research-center.org/eubie-blake-rags-rhythm-race-richard-carlin-ken-bloom/feed/ 0 The First Oscar Hammerstein and New York’s Golden Age of Theater and Music http://operetta-research-center.org/first-oscar-hammerstein-new-yorks-golden-age-theater-music/ http://operetta-research-center.org/first-oscar-hammerstein-new-yorks-golden-age-theater-music/#comments Wed, 20 May 2020 09:56:57 +0000 http://operetta-research-center.org/?p=19619 With such an irresistible title as this, anyone with an interest in early American musical theater would want to read this newly

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]]> http://operetta-research-center.org/first-oscar-hammerstein-new-yorks-golden-age-theater-music/feed/ 1 “One Long Gender-Bender”: Berlin’s Queer Operetta Revolution In The Years 2010-2020 http://operetta-research-center.org/berlins-queer-operetta-revolution-years-2010-2020/ http://operetta-research-center.org/berlins-queer-operetta-revolution-years-2010-2020/#comments Thu, 09 Apr 2020 15:24:55 +0000 http://operetta-research-center.org/?p=19497 The Drama Review (TDR) is planning a special issue on the developments in the German theater scene from 2010 to

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]]> http://operetta-research-center.org/berlins-queer-operetta-revolution-years-2010-2020/feed/ 0 The English Language Adventures of “Im weißen Rössl” http://operetta-research-center.org/give-regards-broadway-english-language-adventures-im-weisen-rossl/ http://operetta-research-center.org/give-regards-broadway-english-language-adventures-im-weisen-rossl/#comments Fri, 15 Jun 2018 15:58:34 +0000 http://operetta-research-center.org/orca/?p=2098 The overwhelming and instant success of Erik Charell’s operetta spectacle Im weißen Rössl at Berlin’s Großes Schauspielhaus (the so-called “Theater

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]]> http://operetta-research-center.org/give-regards-broadway-english-language-adventures-im-weisen-rossl/feed/ 1 It’s Eliza’s Show: A “My Fair Lady” For The 21st Century http://operetta-research-center.org/elizas-show-fair-lady-21st-century/ http://operetta-research-center.org/elizas-show-fair-lady-21st-century/#comments Sat, 12 May 2018 10:57:51 +0000 http://operetta-research-center.org/?p=14798 It’s Eliza’s show; My Fair Lady for the 21st century opens at Lincoln Center’s Vivian Beaumont Theatre, 62 years after

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]]> http://operetta-research-center.org/elizas-show-fair-lady-21st-century/feed/ 0 Rediscovering The 1945 Broadway Hit “Marinka” http://operetta-research-center.org/rediscovering-1945-broadway-hit-marinka/ http://operetta-research-center.org/rediscovering-1945-broadway-hit-marinka/#comments Tue, 20 Dec 2016 10:57:22 +0000 http://operetta-research-center.org/?p=11480 Writing from the point of view as an American visiting Berlin, the Komische Oper’s second concert performance of Emmerich Kálmán’s

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]]> http://operetta-research-center.org/rediscovering-1945-broadway-hit-marinka/feed/ 0 Butchering Irving Berlin: The Screen-To-Stage Adaptation of “Holiday Inn” http://operetta-research-center.org/irving-berlin-holiday-inn-broadway/ http://operetta-research-center.org/irving-berlin-holiday-inn-broadway/#comments Sun, 16 Oct 2016 08:25:20 +0000 http://operetta-research-center.org/?p=11123 When was the last time you saw a new 1947 musical for the first time? Roundabout Theatre Company and Universal

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]]> http://operetta-research-center.org/irving-berlin-holiday-inn-broadway/feed/ 0 Reviewing The Operetta Aspects In “New York’s Yiddish Theater” http://operetta-research-center.org/review-new-yorks-yiddish-theater/ http://operetta-research-center.org/review-new-yorks-yiddish-theater/#comments Thu, 13 Oct 2016 08:11:30 +0000 http://operetta-research-center.org/?p=11068 As a companion volume to its recent exhibition on New York’s Yiddish Theater: From the Bowery to Broadway, the Museum

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]]> http://operetta-research-center.org/review-new-yorks-yiddish-theater/feed/ 0 “The Black Crook” Returns To New York For Its 150th Anniversary http://operetta-research-center.org/black-crook-returns-new-york-150th-anniversary/ http://operetta-research-center.org/black-crook-returns-new-york-150th-anniversary/#comments Wed, 31 Aug 2016 06:57:29 +0000 http://operetta-research-center.org/?p=10854 You might truly hold your breath for a second: the famous show The Black Crook is being revived in New

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]]> http://operetta-research-center.org/black-crook-returns-new-york-150th-anniversary/feed/ 0 A Re-Written And New “Paint Your Wagon” In Seattle http://operetta-research-center.org/re-written-new-paint-wagon-seattle/ http://operetta-research-center.org/re-written-new-paint-wagon-seattle/#comments Mon, 27 Jun 2016 07:00:24 +0000 http://operetta-research-center.org/?p=10259 How very much I wish I could recommend the all new version of Paint Your Wagon in its world premiere

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]]> http://operetta-research-center.org/re-written-new-paint-wagon-seattle/feed/ 0 Ghostlight Records New Lerner & Loewe “Paint Your Wagon”: Starring Keith Carradine http://operetta-research-center.org/ghostlight-records-new-lerner-loewe-paint-wagon-starring-keith-carradine/ http://operetta-research-center.org/ghostlight-records-new-lerner-loewe-paint-wagon-starring-keith-carradine/#comments Sat, 21 May 2016 16:05:37 +0000 http://operetta-research-center.org/?p=10028 In November 1951, composer Frederick Loewe and librettist Alan Jay Lerner premiered Paint Your Wagon, their homage to the American

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