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Gilbert and Sullivan's 'Respectable Capers' - Class, Respectability and the Savoy Operas 1877-1909 (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2016)
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Gilbert and Sullivan's 'Respectable Capers' - Class, Respectability and the Savoy Operas 1877-1909 (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2016)
Series: Palgrave Studies in British Musical Theatre
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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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