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Who's the Boss single work   musical theatre   revue/revusical   humour  
Issue Details: First known date: 1917... 1917 Who's the Boss
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AbstractHistoryArchive Description

Revusical.

Notes

  • Australian Variety records that although the Bridge Theatre season had audiences packed to the doors, and invited 'encouraging applause' for the performers, the revusical was 'rather weak and on the empty side', taken on the whole. Variety's editor, Harry Kitching, proposed that the flow had been broken, 'there being too much talk before getting to business', and thus 'more musical numbers [needed to] be introduced to knock it into shape' (7 February 1917, n. pag.).

Production Details

  • 1917: Bridge Theatre, Newtown (Sydney), 3-9 February.

    • Director Arthur Morley; Producer Clay's Bridge Theatre Ltd; Scenic Art Alec Stagpoole; Stage Manager Ted Gabriel.
    • Cast incl. Ted Sutton, Olive Stephens, Arthur Baron, Eloise Taylor, Harry Carlton, Daisy Sylvester, Winnie Shaw, Winnie Trevail, Sybil Shaw.

    1917: Harry Clay's Sydney suburban and south-west NSW circuit, ca. February.

    • Cast and production mostly as for previous Bridge Theatre season.

Publication Details of Only Known VersionEarliest 2 Known Versions of

Works about this Work

Harry Clay's Bridge Theatre, Newtown Harry Kitching , 1917 single work review
— Appears in: Australian Variety and Show World , 7 February 1917; (p. n. pag.)

— Review of Who's the Boss Arthur Morley , 1917 single work musical theatre
Harry Clay's Bridge Theatre, Newtown Harry Kitching , 1917 single work review
— Appears in: Australian Variety and Show World , 7 February 1917; (p. n. pag.)

— Review of Who's the Boss Arthur Morley , 1917 single work musical theatre

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Note:
This entry has been sourced from research undertaken by Dr Clay Djubal into Australian-written popular music theatre (ca. 1850-1930). See also the Australian Variety Theatre Archive
Last amended 29 May 2014 12:55:36
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