Harry B. Smith
Dean of American Librettists
By John Franceschina
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- ISBN: 978-0-415-93862-4
- Binding: Hardback
- Published by: Routledge
- Publication Date: 23rd June 2003
- Pages: 288
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About the Book
Harry B. Smith was the most prolific writer of librettos for the American musical theatre in history with nearly half of his 300 works actually opening in New York City. In addition, Smith was instrumental in adapting and popularizing foreign musicals in America, enabling a significant influence of writing and composing styles on American shows. He worked with every major composer in American between 1880 and 1920, and consequently this examination of his work and process is highly instructive of the history of the American musical.
About the Author(s)
John Franceschina is professor of theatre history at the Pennsylvania State University. He is the author of
Sisters of Gore,
Gore on Stage,
Homosexualities in the English Theatre from Lyly to Wilde,
Duke Ellington's Music for the Theatre, a three-volume translation of the
Plays of the Marquis de Sade, and
David Braham: The American Offenbach.
