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Louis Harrison, the Glossary

Louis Harrison (1859, Philadelphia – October 23, 1936, New York City) was an actor, playwright, comedian, lyricist, librettist, and theatre director.^[1]

68 relations: A Million Dollars, Alfred Baldwin Sloane, Arch Street Theatre, Ben Jerome, Bijou Theatre (Manhattan, 1878), Billboard (magazine), Boccaccio (operetta), Broadway theatre, Broadway Theatre (41st Street), Broadway to Tokio, BroadwayWorld, Buffalo, New York, Cambridge Scholars Publishing, Cambridge University Press, Casino Theatre (New York City), Charles Alfred Byrne, Columbia University Press, Comic opera, Dodd, Mead & Co., Edmond Audran, Edward E. Rice, Fatinitza, Fifth Avenue Theatre, Franz von Suppé, Fritzi Scheff, Garden Theatre, George V. Hobart, Grand Opera House (Manhattan), Grover Cleveland, Gustave Kerker, Irving Berlin, Ivan Caryll, Jack O'Lantern (musical), Jean Schwartz, Jerome Kern, La belle Hélène, La cigale et la fourmi, Libretto, Lillian Russell, Louisa Lane Drew, Ludwig Engländer, Maurice Hennequin, May Irwin, McFarland & Company, Musical Courier, New Amsterdam Theatre, New York City, Olympia Theatre (New York City), Oscar Hammerstein I, Oscar Hammerstein II, ... Expand index (18 more) »
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A Million Dollars

A Million Dollars is a musical in three acts with music by A. Baldwin Sloane, lyrics by George V. Hobart, and a book co-authored by Hobart and Louis Harrison.

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Alfred Baldwin Sloane (28 August 1872, Baltimore – 21 February 1925, Red Bank, New Jersey) was an American composer, considered the most prolific songwriter for Broadway musical comedies at the beginning of the 20th century. Louis Harrison and Alfred Baldwin Sloane are Broadway composers and lyricists.

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Arch Street Theatre

The Arch Street Theatre, popularly referred to as The Arch, was one of three Philadelphia-based theaters for plays during the 19th century; the other two were the Walnut Street Theatre and the Chestnut Street Theatre.

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Ben Jerome

Benjamin M. Jerome (1881 – March 29, 1938), also known by the stage name Ben Jerome, was an American composer, arranger, lyricist, songwriter, pianist, and conductor.

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Bijou Theatre (Manhattan, 1878)

The Bijou Theatre was a former Broadway theater in New York City that opened in 1878 as Theatre Brighton and was demolished in 1915.

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Billboard (magazine)

Billboard (stylized in lowercase since 2013) is an American music and entertainment magazine published weekly by Penske Media Corporation.

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Boccaccio (operetta)

Boccaccio, oder Der Prinz von Palermo (Boccaccio, or the Prince of Palermo) is an operetta in three acts by Franz von Suppé to a German libretto by Camillo Walzel and Richard Genée, based on the play by Jean-François Bayard, Adolphe de Leuven, Léon Lévy Brunswick and Arthur de Beauplan, based in turn on The Decameron by Giovanni Boccaccio.

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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), many of the extant or closed Broadway venues use or used the spelling Theatre as the proper noun in their names.

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Broadway Theatre (41st Street)

The Broadway Theatre near 41st Street was a Manhattan theatre in operation from 1888 to 1929.

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Broadway to Tokio

Broadway to Tokio is a musical in three acts with music by Alfred Baldwin Sloane and lyrics and book co-authored by George V. Hobart and Louis Harrison.

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BroadwayWorld

BroadwayWorld is a theatre news website based in New York City covering Broadway, Off-Broadway, regional, and international theatre productions.

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Buffalo, New York

Buffalo is a city in the U.S. state of New York and the county seat of Erie County.

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Cambridge Scholars Publishing

Cambridge Scholars Publishing (CSP) is an academic book publisher based in Newcastle upon Tyne, England.

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Cambridge University Press

Cambridge University Press is the university press of the University of Cambridge.

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Casino Theatre (New York City)

The Casino Theatre was a Broadway theatre located at 1404 Broadway and West 39th Street in New York City.

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Charles Alfred Byrne

Charles Alfred Byrne (1848 – 1909) was an American journalist and playwright. Louis Harrison and Charles Alfred Byrne are 19th-century American dramatists and playwrights.

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Columbia University Press

Columbia University Press is a university press based in New York City, and affiliated with Columbia University.

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Comic opera

Comic opera, sometimes known as light opera, is a sung dramatic work of a light or comic nature, usually with a happy ending and often including spoken dialogue.

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Dodd, Mead & Co.

Dodd, Mead and Company was one of the pioneer publishing houses of the United States, based in New York City.

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Edmond Audran

Achille Edmond Audran (12 April 184017 August 1901) was a French composer best known for several internationally successful comic operas and operettas.

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Edward E. Rice

Edward Everett Rice (December 21, 1847 – November 16, 1924) was an American musical theatre composer and producer active during the late 19th and early 20th centuries, known as a pioneer of American musical theatre, who introduced to Broadway Clorindy, a musical by African-American writers with African-American performers.

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Fatinitza

Fatinitza was the first full-length, three-act operetta by Franz von Suppé.

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Fifth Avenue Theatre

The Fifth Avenue Theatre was a Broadway theatre in Manhattan, New York City, United States, at 31 West 28th Street and Broadway (1185 Broadway).

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Franz von Suppé

Franz von Suppé, born Francesco Ezechiele Ermenegildo de Suppé (18 April 181921 May 1895) was an Austrian composer of light operas and other theatre music.

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Fritzi Scheff

Fritzi Scheff (born Friederike Scheff; August 30, 1879 – April 8, 1954) was an American actress and singer.

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Garden Theatre

The Garden Theatre was a major theater on Madison Avenue and 27th Street in Manhattan, New York City.

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George V. Hobart

George Vere Hobart (1867–1926) was a Canadian-American humorist who authored more than 50 musical comedy librettos and plays as well as novels and songs.

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Grand Opera House (Manhattan)

Pike's Opera House, later renamed the Grand Opera House, was a theater in New York City on the northwest corner of 8th Avenue and 23rd Street, in the Chelsea neighborhood of Manhattan.

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Grover Cleveland

Stephen Grover Cleveland (March 18, 1837June 24, 1908) was an American politician who served as the 22nd and 24th president of the United States from 1885 to 1889 and from 1893 to 1897.

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Gustave Kerker

Gustave Adolph Kerker, sometimes given as Gustav or Gustavus Kerker, (February 28, 1857 – June 29, 1923) was a Kingdom of Prussia-born composer and conductor who spent most of his life in the United States.

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Irving Berlin

Irving Berlin (born Israel Beilin; ישראל ביילין; May 11, 1888 – September 22, 1989) was an American composer and songwriter. Louis Harrison and Irving Berlin are Broadway composers and lyricists.

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Ivan Caryll

Félix Marie Henri Tilkin (12 May 1861 – 29 November 1921), better known by his pen name Ivan Caryll, was a Belgian-born composer of operettas and Edwardian musical comedies in the English language, who made his career in London and later New York.

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Jack O'Lantern (musical)

Jack O'Lantern is a musical in two acts and 8 scenes with music by Ivan Caryll and both lyrics and book co-authored by Anne Caldwell and R. H. Burnside.

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Jean Schwartz

Jean Schwartz (November 4, 1878 – November 30, 1956) was a Hungarian-born Jewish American composer and pianist.

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Jerome Kern

Jerome David Kern (January 27, 1885 – November 11, 1945) was an American composer of musical theatre and popular music. Louis Harrison and Jerome Kern are Broadway composers and lyricists.

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La belle Hélène

La belle Hélène (The Beautiful Helen) is an opéra bouffe in three acts, with music by Jacques Offenbach and words by Henri Meilhac and Ludovic Halévy.

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La cigale et la fourmi

La cigale et la fourmi (The Grasshopper and the Ant) is a three-act opéra comique, with music by Edmond Audran and words by Henri Chivot and Alfred Duru.

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Libretto

A libretto (an English word derived from the Italian word libretto) is the text used in, or intended for, an extended musical work such as an opera, operetta, masque, oratorio, cantata or musical.

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Lillian Russell

Lillian Russell (born Helen Louise Leonard; December 4, 1860 or 1861 – June 6, 1922) was an American actress and singer.

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Louisa Lane Drew

Louisa Lane Drew (January 10, 1820 – August 31, 1897) was an English-born American actress and theatre owner and an ancestor of the Barrymore acting family.

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Ludwig Engländer

Ludwig Engländer (October 20, 1853 Vienna, Austrian Empire – September 13, 1914) was an Austrian Empire-born American composer of more than 30 musicals.

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Maurice Hennequin

Maurice Hennequin (10 December 1863 – 3 September 1926) was a French-naturalized Belgian playwright.

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May Irwin

May Irwin (born Georgina May Campbell; June 27, 1862 – October 22, 1938) was an actress, singer and star of vaudeville.

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McFarland & Company

McFarland & Company, Inc., is an American independent book publisher based in Jefferson, North Carolina, that specializes in academic and reference works, as well as general-interest adult nonfiction.

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Musical Courier

The Musical Courier was a weekly 19th- and 20th-century American music trade magazine that began publication in 1880.

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New Amsterdam Theatre

The New Amsterdam Theatre is a Broadway theater at 214 West 42nd Street, at the southern end of Times Square, in the Theater District of Manhattan in New York City.

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New York City

New York, often called New York City (to distinguish it from New York State) or NYC, is the most populous city in the United States.

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Olympia Theatre (New York City)

The Olympia Theatre (1514–16 Broadway at 44th Street), also known as Hammerstein's Olympia and later the Lyric Theatre and the New York Theatre, was a theater complex built by impresario Oscar Hammerstein I at Longacre Square (later Times Square) in Manhattan, New York City, opening in 1895.

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Oscar Hammerstein I

Oscar Hammerstein I (8 May 1846 – 1 August 1919) was a German-born businessman, theater impresario, and composer in New York City.

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Oscar Hammerstein II

Oscar Greeley Clendenning Hammerstein II (July 12, 1895 – August 23, 1960) was an American lyricist, librettist, theatrical producer, and (usually uncredited) director in musical theater for nearly 40 years. Louis Harrison and Oscar Hammerstein II are Broadway composers and lyricists.

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Otto Harbach

Otto Abels Harbach, born Otto Abels Hauerbach (August 18, 1873 – January 24, 1963) was an American lyricist and librettist of nearly 50 musical comedies and operettas. Louis Harrison and Otto Harbach are Broadway composers and lyricists.

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Oxford University Press

Oxford University Press (OUP) is the publishing house of the University of Oxford.

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Paul Bilhaud

Paul Bilhaud (31 December 1854 – 8 January 1933) was a French playwright and librettist.

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Philadelphia

Philadelphia, colloquially referred to as Philly, is the most populous city in the U.S. state of Pennsylvania and the sixth-most populous city in the nation, with a population of 1,603,797 in the 2020 census.

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Random House

Random House is an imprint and publishing group of Penguin Random House.

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Reginald De Koven

Henry Louis Reginald De Koven (April 3, 1859January 16, 1920) was an American music critic and prolific composer, particularly of comic operas.

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Rowman & Littlefield

Rowman & Littlefield Publishing Group is an American independent academic publishing company founded in 1949.

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Stanislaus Stange

Stanislaus Stange (1862–1917) was a playwright, librettist and lyricist who created many Broadway shows in the fin-de-siecle era and early 20th century.

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Sunny (musical)

Sunny is a musical comedy with music by Jerome Kern and a libretto by Oscar Hammerstein II and Otto Harbach.

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Sydney Rosenfeld

Sydney Rosenfeld (1855–1931) was an American playwright who wrote numerous plays, and adapted many foreign plays.

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T. Allston Brown

Thomas Allston Brown (January 16, 1836 – April 2, 1918) was an American theater critic, newspaper editor, talent agent and manager, and theater historian, best known for his books, History of the American Stage (Dick & Fitzgerald: New York, 1870) and A History of the New York Stage from the First Performance in 1732 to 1901 (Dodd Mead: New York, 1902).

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louis_Harrison

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American librettists

American musical theatre actors

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