This book tells the story of producer, actor, and author Oscar
Asche, one of the most commercially successful actor/managers in
the first half of the 20th century. Though virtually written out of
theatre history because of his triumph on the musical comedy stage,
he is most frequently remembered today as having had a successful
career as an actor and producer of Shakespeare. Asche was an
innovator in stage lighting and one of the first to use it as a
language of the stage rather than as mere illumination. During
World War I, he captured the public imagination and provided
audiences with escapist musicals set in fictional orients.
Oscar Asche excelled in many theatre genres, including musical
comedy, pantomime, music hall, melodrama, and Shakespeare. He
provided exotic erotica in orientalist musicals from "Kismet" to
"Mecca" and brought unprecedented numbers of spectators to the
theatre at its most difficult time. He was responsible for
extending the life of musical comedy and orientalism in the theatre
before cinemas would appropriate both genre and style.
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