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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