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The Century Revue
''The Century Revue'' is a musical revue in two acts with music by Jean Schwartz, lyrics by Alfred Bryan, and a book by Howard Emmett Rogers. The revue was directed by J. J. Shubert and produced on Broadway by the Shubert brothers The Shubert family was responsible for the establishment of Broadway theaters in New York City's Theater District, as the hub of the theatre industry in the United States. Through the Shubert Organization, founded by brothers Lee, Sam, and Jac .... It premiered at the Century Grove Theatre (located on the roof of the Century Theatre ) on July 12, 1920; closing after 150 performances on January 1, 1921.Stagg, p. 411 References Citations Bibliography * * * External links * {{DEFAULTSORT:Century Revue, The Broadway musicals Revues 1920 musicals Musicals by Alfred Bryan Musicals by Jean Schwartz ...
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Musical Revue
''Musical Revue'' is a live album featuring Prince Far I and Suns of Arqa released on ROIR Europe in 1988. The album was produced by Phil Rainford and features a live recording of Prince Far I with Suns of Arqa at Band on the Wall in Manchester on 7 December 1982. The sound is fairly rough with Suns of Arqa low in the mix and Prince Far I a little too close. There is much dub mixing, delays, reverbs, and repeats flying left and right, and the music appears improvised in places. The music here is more complex than reggae, sometimes moving towards variations on jazz/highlife (e.g. "Brujo Magic"). This album captured Prince Far I's last concert. He was murdered in Kingston, Jamaica in 1983. Track listing # "Steppin' To The Music" – 1:33 # "Throw Away Your Guns" – 10:15 # "Brujo Magic" – 6:15 # "Version Galore" – 5:36 # "83 Struggle" – 7:48 # "Trancedance Music" – 4:34 # "Foggy Road" – 4:56 # "What You Gonna Do On The Judgement Day" – 8:53 Personnel *Prince Far I ...
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Jean Schwartz
Jean Schwartz (November 4, 1878 – November 30, 1956) was a Hungarian-born Jewish American composer and pianist. He is best known for his work writing the scores for more than 30 Broadway theatre, Broadway musicals, and for his creation of more than 1,000 popular songs with the lyricist William Jerome. Schwartz and Jerome also performed together on the vaudeville stage in the United States; sometimes in collaboration with Maude Nugent, Jerome's wife, and the Dolly Sisters. Schwartz was married to Jenny Dolly from 1913 to 1921. With Jerome, Schwartz created a large body of work for both Broadway and Tin Pan Alley, with the majority of their songs written between the years 1901 and 1910. Many of their popular songs were interpolated into Broadway musicals created by others during the 1900s, 1910s, and 1920s. The pair were also the primary creators of eight Broadway musicals, the most successful of which were ''Piff! Paff!! Pouf!!!'' (1904) and ''The Ham Tree'' (1905). Their most end ...
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Alfred Bryan (lyricist)
Alfred Bryan (September 15, 1871 – April 1, 1958) was a Canadian lyricist. Bryan was born in Brantford, Ontario. He worked as an arranger in New York and wrote lyrics for many Broadway shows in the late 1910s and early 1920s; often collaborating with composer Jean Schwartz. In the 1920s he moved to Hollywood to write lyrics for screen musicals. Bryan worked with several composers during his career. Among his collaborators were Henriette Blanke-Belcher, Fred Fischer, Al Sherman, Larry Stock and Joe McCarthy. Perhaps his most successful song was " I Didn't Raise My Boy to Be a Soldier" (1915), with music by Al Piantadosi. The song sold 650,000 copies during the first three months and became one of 1915's top-selling songs in the United States. Although Bryan himself was not a committed pacifist, he described the American public's anti-war sentiments in his lyrics. He died in Gladstone, New Jersey, aged 86. Musicals *''Shubert Gaieties of 1919'' *''Hello, Alexander'' (1919) *' ...
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Howard Emmett Rogers
Howard Emmett Rogers (1890–1971) was an American screenwriter, playwright, lyricist, and theatre director. As a playwright he wrote the books for three Broadway musicals: ''The Midnight Rounders of 1920'', ''The Century Revue'' (1920), and ''Luana'' (1930); the latter of which he also directed. He also wrote the lyrics to the 1922 Broadway musical '' Red Pepper''. He was an active anti-communist member of the Screen Writers Guild.Critchlow p.50 He worked for several studios during his career. Two of his last films ''Calling Bulldog Drummond'' (1951) and ''The Hour of 13'' (1952) were made by MGM-British. Selected filmography * '' Tin Gods'' (1926) * ''So's Your Old Man'' (1926) * '' Paradise for Two'' (1927) * ''Feel My Pulse'' (1928) * '' Gypsy of the North'' (1928) * ''Speedy'' (1928) * '' The Forward Pass'' (1929) * ''The Bad One'' (1930) * '' Dancers in the Dark'' (1932) * ''Stepping Sisters'' (1932) * '' The Nuisance'' (1933) * '' Hold Your Man'' (1933) * ''Don't Bet on L ...
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Broadway Theatre
Broadway theatre,Although ''theater'' is generally the spelling for this common noun in the United States (see American and British English spelling differences#-re, -er, American and British English spelling differences), many of the List of Broadway theaters, extant or closed Broadway venues use or used the spelling ''Theatre'' as the proper noun in their names. Many performers and trade groups for live dramatic presentations also use the spelling ''theatre''. or Broadway, is a theatre genre that consists of the theatrical performances presented in 41 professional Theater (structure), theaters, each with 500 or more seats, in the Theater District, Manhattan, Theater District and Lincoln Center along Broadway (Manhattan), Broadway, in Midtown Manhattan, New York City. Broadway and London's West End theatre, West End together represent the highest commercial level of live theater in the English-speaking world. While the Broadway (Manhattan), Broadway thoroughfare is eponymous ...
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Shubert Family
The Shubert family was responsible for the establishment of Broadway theatre, Broadway theaters in New York City's Theater District, Manhattan, Theater District, as the hub of the theatre industry in the United States. Through the The Shubert Organization, Shubert Organization, founded by brothers Lee, Sam, and Jacob Shubert, they dominated the legitimate theatre and vaudeville in the first half of the 20th century. History The family's history in America began when Duvvid Schubart (Transliteration, transliterated to "Shubert") and his wife Katrina (Gitel) Helwitz left their native town of Vladislavov in the Russian Empire (now Kudirkos Naumiestis, Kudirkos Naumiestis, Lithuania) with their eight children, two of whom died after the journey. They arrived in New York City from Hamburg, via England, on June 12, 1881 on the ''S.S.'' ''Spain''. They then settled in Syracuse, New York.
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Century Theatre (Central Park West)
The Century Theatre, originally the New Theatre, was a theatre at 62nd Street and Central Park West on the Upper West Side of Manhattan in New York City. Opened on November 6, 1909, it was noted for its fine architecture but due to poor acoustics and an inconvenient location it was financially unsuccessful. It was briefly renamed the Century Opera House in 1913, until reverting back to the Century Theatre in 1915. The theatre was demolished in 1930 and replaced by The Century apartment building. History New Theatre The New Theatre was once called "New York's most spectacularly unsuccessful theater" in the ''WPA Guide to New York City''. Envisioned in 1906 by Heinrich Conried, a director of the Metropolitan Opera House, its construction was an attempt to establish a great theatre at New York free of commercialism, one that, broadly speaking, would resemble the Comédie Française of Paris. Thirty founders each subscribed $35,000 at the start, and a building designed to be th ...
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Small, Maynard & Company
Small, Maynard & Company (Small, Maynard and Company in bibliographies) is a defunct publishing house located in Boston. In its day it was a highly reputable house in literature, and several U.S. authors were published by it, including Walt Whitman. The company opened its doors in 1897 at 6 Beacon St. in Boston. New editions of Whitman's ''Leaves of Grass'' and an edition of his complete works among the first to be published, after acquiring the rights to these works from the poet's executors. The company motto, which it published decoratively and in Latin, on title pages of its books was '' Scire quod sciendum,'' and translates as ''Knowledge worth knowing.'' In 1899, Small, Maynard & Co. took over the Copeland & Day publishing house. A year later, founder Herbert Small retired due to ill health. The business was sold at auction to Norman H. White, of Brookline, Massachusetts, owner of the Boston Bookbinding Company. White left the firm in 1907, but later returned. In the sum ...
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Random House
Random House is an imprint and publishing group of Penguin Random House. Founded in 1927 by businessmen Bennett Cerf and Donald Klopfer as an imprint of Modern Library, it quickly overtook Modern Library as the parent imprint. Over the following decades, a series of acquisitions made it into one of the largest publishers in the United States. In 2013, it was merged with Penguin Group to form Penguin Random House, which is owned by the Germany-based media conglomerate Bertelsmann. Penguin Random House uses its brand for Random House Publishing Group and Random House Children's Books, as well as several imprints. Company history 20th century Random House was founded in 1927 by Bennett Cerf and Donald Klopfer, two years after they acquired the Modern Library imprint from publisher Horace Liveright, which reprints classic works of literature. Cerf is quoted as saying, "We just said we were going to publish a few books on the side at random", which suggested the name Random ...
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Broadway Musicals
Broadway theatre,Although ''theater'' is generally the spelling for this common noun in the United States (see American and British English spelling differences), many of the extant or closed Broadway venues use or used the spelling ''Theatre'' as the proper noun in their names. Many performers and trade groups for live dramatic presentations also use the spelling ''theatre''. or Broadway, is a theatre genre that consists of the theatrical performances presented in 41 professional theaters, each with 500 or more seats, in the Theater District and Lincoln Center along Broadway, in Midtown Manhattan, New York City. Broadway and London's West End together represent the highest commercial level of live theater in the English-speaking world. While the Broadway thoroughfare is eponymous with the district, it is closely identified with Times Square. Only three theaters are located on Broadway itself: the Broadway Theatre, Palace Theatre, and Winter Garden Theatre. The rest are ...
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Revues
A revue is a type of multi-act popular theatrical entertainment that combines music, dance, and sketches. The revue has its roots in 19th century popular entertainment and melodrama but grew into a substantial cultural presence of its own during its golden years from 1916 to 1932. Though most famous for their visual spectacle, revues frequently satirized contemporary figures, news or literature. Similar to the related subforms of operetta and musical theatre, the revue art form brings together music, dance and sketches to create a compelling show. In contrast to these, however, revue does not have an overarching storyline. Rather, a general theme serves as the motto for a loosely related series of acts that alternate between solo performances and dance ensembles. Owing to high ticket prices, ribald publicity campaigns and the occasional use of prurient material, the revue was typically patronized by audience members who earned more and felt even less restricted by middle-class ...
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1920 Musicals
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