The Red Petticoat
The Red Petticoat is a 1912 musical-comedy in 3 acts with book and lyrics by Rida Johnson Young and Paul West, music by Jerome Kern, and directed by Joseph W. Herbert. The Western-genre musical starred Helen Lowell as tough lady barber Sophie Brush in the rough silver-mining town of Lost River, Nevada, who gets her man.[1][2] Songs included "I Wonder", "My Peaches and Cream", "Oh You Beautiful Spring", "The Ragtime Restaurant", and "Since the Days of Grandmamma".[3] The musical was based on a 1911 farcical melodrama by Young titled Next!.[4] It was Kern's first complete score.
It opened at Daly's 30th St. Theatre on 13 November 1912 and moved to the Broadway Theatre, closing on January 4, 1913, after 61 performances.[3]
References[]
- ^ Green, Stanley (1980). "Chapter Six: Jerome Kern", The World of Musical Comedy: The Story of the American Musical Stage as Told Through the Careers of Its Foremost Composers and Lyricists, p. 54, Da Capo Press, ISBN 0306802074
- ^ Bordman, Gerald Martin and Richard Norton (2010). American Musical Theatre: A Chronicle, p. 329 Oxford University Press ISBN 0199729700
- ^ a b Hischak, Thomas S. (2013). The Jerome Kern Encyclopedia, p. 163 ISBN 0810891689
- ^ Banfield, Stephen (2006)."First Triumphs", Jerome Kern, Yale University Press ISBN 0300138334
External links[]
- The Red Petticoat at the Internet Broadway Database
Categories:
- 1912 musicals