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Charles H. Hoyt

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Book WriterDirector 1859–1900

Charles Hale Hoyt (July 26, 1859 – November 20, 1900) was an American dramatist and playwright. He was married twice, to stage actresses Flora Walsh and Caroline Miskel Hoyt, both of whom died young. The shock of the death of his second wife contributed towards his mental health issues and the alcohol consumption which culminated in his death.

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A Trip to Chinatown

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In the literature4 passages

  • 5 As Stanley Green has noted, Hello , Dolly! shares certain plot and character similarities with the 1891 musical farce A Trip to Chinatown by Charles H. Hoyt (cf. Stanley Green, Broadway Musicals Show By Show [New York: Hal Leonard Books, 1996], 5, 204). In Hoyt’s work, a coy young widow persuades a rich old man to allow her to chaperone…ebooks/Gilvey, John Anthony/Before the Parade Passes By_ Gower Champion and the Glorious American Musical - John Anthony Gilvey.txt
  • Hoyt, Charles H. A Trip to Chinatown. In Five Plays by Charles H. Hoyt, ed. Douglas L. Hunt, 105-148. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1941.ebooks/Gilvey, John Anthony/Before the Parade Passes By_ Gower Champion and the Glorious American Musical - John Anthony Gilvey.txt
  • Farces became the rage, and if Nate Salsbury was their father, Charles H. Hoyt became their master. Hoyt had a gimmick: his titles began with the indefinite article: A Bunch Of Keys (1883), A Parlor Match (1884), A Black Sheep (1896), A Day and a Night in New York (1898). Manager Florenz Ziegfeld’s first Broadway production was a revival…ebooks/Mordden, Ethan/Anything Goes_ A History of American Musical Theatre - Ethan Mordden.txt
  • Did Charles H. Hoyt, producer, co-director, librettist and co-lyricist of A Trip to Chinatown , sense any of this when he decided to interpolate ‘After The Ball’ into his show? For 25 years we’d had American musicals of one sort or another – burlesques and farce-comedies – but, although they had music in them, their pleasures weren’t chie…ebooks/Steyn, Mark/Broadway Babies Say Goodnight_ Musicals Then and Now - Mark Steyn.txt

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