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Charles M. Barras

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Book Writer

Charles M. Barras wrote the book for The Black Crook (1866), the melodrama-with-ballet often cited as the first American musical.

Also credited on1 work

The Black Crook

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In the literature3 passages

  • no place to perform. A melodrama in town was floundering. Its impressario decided to add the ballet troupe to his play. The Black Crook, by Charles M. Barras. Here was the forerunner of the Ziegfeld girls, for the stage hadtheatre-pdfs/McGraw-Hill Encyclopedia of World Drama, v. 3 (I-N).txt
  • American musicals follows. The Black Crook (1866). Book: Charles M. Barras; music (mostly adaptations): Giuseppe Operti. Musical extravaganza, replete with opulent stage effects, ballets,theatre-pdfs/McGraw-Hill Encyclopedia of World Drama, v. 3 (I-N).txt
  • Based on “The Black Crook” by Charles M. Barras; ProducerDirector, George Zagoren. No other details submitted. Novembertheatre-pdfs/Theatre World/Theatre World, 1978-79, v. 35 (Willis).txt

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What this page does not know

  • What this person played. No cast list we hold records a character against a performer.
  • Any staging. This name appears in no production cast list we hold — 1,877 of 7,139 people are in that position, most of them writers, composers and designers rather than performers.
  • Birth or death year. Neither is on the record.
  • Any portrait. 1,626 of 7,139 people have one, so this is the usual case rather than the exception.
  • Which of the credits above the roles on this record — book writer — apply to. The roles sit on the person and never on a credit, so a director who also acted looks the same here as one who did not.

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