The Red Petticoat

The Red Petticoat is a 1912 musical musical in 3 acts with book and lyrics by Rida Johnson Young and Paul West, and music by Jerome Kern. The Western-genre musical starred Helen Lowell as a 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 opened at Daly's 30th St. Theatre on 13 November 1912 and later moved to the Broadway Theatre, closing on January 4, 2013 after 61 performances.[3]

References

  1. ↑ 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
  2. ↑ Bordman, Gerald Martin and Richard Norton (2010). American Musical Theatre: A Chronicle, p. 329 Oxford University Press ISBN 0199729700
  3. 1 2 Hischak, Thomas S. (2013). The Jerome Kern Encyclopedia, p. 163 ISBN 0810891689
  4. ↑ Banfield, Stephen (2006)."First Triumphs", Jerome Kern, Yale University Press ISBN 0300138334

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