Adrian Wright

For One Week Only!: The Norfolk and Norwich Operatic Society, 1925-2025 (eBook, ePUB)

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Produktbeschreibung

Explores the 100 year history of the Norfolk and Norwich Operatic Society and celebrates the company's relationship with the Theatre Royal Norwich, one of the most successful major provincial theatres in the country.

For One Week Only, published in time for the Norfolk and Norwich Operatic Society's centenary in January 2025, celebrates the company's relationship with the Theatre Royal Norwich, one of the most successful major provincial theatres in the country. The book charts the development of the Society over a hundred years of musical theatre, British and American. Each of the almost 100 productions has its own lively, informative and socially aware essay, accompanied by photographs revealing the development of the company from its origins in 1925, as well as showing the changing faces and styles of musical theatre throughout the century. The early years of the Society favoured such continental operettas as The Marriage Market and the bewitching Sybil before a long dalliance with Gilbert and Sullivan from which it broke free after World War II, although Iolanthe returned for her third outing in 1955. The Society's fascination with operetta continued through the 1960s with such sturdy favourites as The Student Prince, The Merry Widow and Rose Marie, with an occasional recognition of the British musical, notably in the 1975 production of Ivor Novello's King's Rhapsody and in the hugely successful Betty Blue Eyes of 2024. For One Week Only explores the history of the N&N and its ongoing contribution to the arts in Norfolk. Warmly and wittily, it lifts the curtain on a story of theatrical endurance and adventure.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Wits University Press
• Seitenzahl: 272
• Erscheinungstermin: 7. Januar 2025
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781805434900
• Artikelnr.: 72808289

Autorenporträt

ADRIAN WRIGHT is a performer, novelist and writer. His previous books with Boydell include A Tanner's Worth of Tune: Rediscovering the Post-War British Musical (2010), West End Broadway: The Golden Age of the American Musical in London (2012) and Must Close Saturday: The Decline and Fall of the British Musical Flop (2017). He has previously written on the subject of film music in his biography of William Alwyn, The Innumerable Dance (2008), and his fiction includes the Francis and Gordon Jones Mysteries series: The Voice of Doom, The Coming Day and Forget Me Not.

Inhaltsangabe

List of Illustrations Preface and Acknowledgements Opening Night Beginnings The 1920s
Dorothy
Les Cloches de Corneville
The Gondoliers
The Little Michus The 1930s
The Marriage Market
Sybil
The Mikado
The Yeomen of the Guard
The Rebel Maid
Iolanthe
The Gondoliers
Trial by Jury/H. M. S. Pinafore
Merrie England The 1940s
Iolanthe
The Mikado
Ruddigore The 1950s
The Gondoliers
Trial by Jury/H. M. S. Pinafore
The Pirates of Penzance/Cox and Box
The Yeomen of the Guard
The Maid of the Mountains
Iolanthe
The Quaker Girl
The Belle of New York
White Horse Inn
Show Boat The 1960s
The Desert Song
The Gypsy Princess
The Student Prince
Oklahoma!
Pink Champagne
The Merry Widow
Brigadoon
Song of Norway
Rose Marie
Kismet The 1970s
White Horse Inn
Annie Get Your Gun
Carousel
The Dubarry
Hello, Dolly!
King's Rhapsody
South Pacific
Camelot
Gigi
The Merry Widow The 1980s
Fiddler on the Roof
Kiss Me, Kate
Die Fledermaus
Oklahoma!
The Most Happy Fella
The King and I
My Fair Lady
Guys and Dolls
Brigadoon
The Sound of Music The 1990s
Annie Get Your Gun
The Music Man
Oliver!
42nd Street
Meet Me in St Louis
Barnum
Hello, Dolly!
Carousel The 2000s
Me and My Girl
Mack and Mabel
South Pacific
My Fair Lady
Kiss Me, Kate
Jesus Christ Superstar
Oklahoma!
42nd Street
Titanic
West Side Story The 2010s
The Producers
Fiddler on the Roof
Hello, Dolly!
Sweeney Todd
Anything Goes
Sister Act
Sunset Boulevard
The Witches of Eastwick
Top Hat
Guys and Dolls The 2020s
Made in Dagenham
The Sound of Music
Kinky Boots
Betty Blue Eyes Envoi Appendix 1: The Norwich Amateur Operatic Company Appendix 2: Directors and Musical Directors Notes Select Bibliography Index of Musical Works General Index