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This innovative account of the Gilbert and Sullivan partnership provides a unique insight into the experience of both attending and performing in the original productions of the most influential and enduring pieces of English-language musical theatre.
In the 1870s, Savoy impresario Richard D’Oyly Carte astutely realized that a conscious move to respectability in a West End which, until then, had favored the racy delights of burlesque and French operetta, would attract a new, lucrative morally ‘decent’ audience.
This book examines the commercial, material and human factors underlying the Victorian productions of the Savoy operas. Unusually for a book on ‘G&S’, it focuses on people and things rather than author biography or literary criticism. Examining theatre architecture, interior design, marketing, and typical audiences, as well as the working conditions and personal lives of the members of a Victorian theatre-company, ‘Respectable Capers’ explains how the Gilbert and Sullivan operas helped to transform the West End into the family-friendly ‘theatre land’ which still exists today.
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Book Title: Gilbert and Sullivan's 'Respectable Capers'
Book Subtitle: Class, Respectability and the Savoy Operas 1877–1909
Authors: Michael Goron
Series Title: Palgrave Studies in British Musical Theatre
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-59478-5
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan London
eBook Packages: Literature, Cultural and Media Studies, Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2016
Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-137-59477-8Published: 27 September 2016
Softcover ISBN: 978-1-349-95537-4Published: 27 June 2018
eBook ISBN: 978-1-137-59478-5Published: 16 September 2016
Series ISSN: 2946-4137
Series E-ISSN: 2946-4145
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XVIII, 249
Number of Illustrations: 8 b/w illustrations, 1 illustrations in colour
Topics: Theatre History