On stage 1 production
| 1894 | Tabasco Broadway Theatre · Original · directed by C. D. Marius | 48 perf. |
Each row is a staging this name appears in the cast list of, read from the production record rather than from the person record. The person record names works instead, and a work cannot say which run somebody was in — that is how Elaine Stritch ends up filed under Show Boat 1927 when she was in the 1994 revival. No row here says what part was played, because no cast list records it.
Also credited on2 works
The Blue Paradise
The Rose Girl
These come off the person record, which names a work and not a production. So we can say this name is attached to the work and we cannot say which staging, or in what capacity. For a composer or a writer that is the whole career we hold; there is no cast list to find them in.
In the literature2 passages
- 107 . Edgar Smith, lyrics, and A. Baldwin Sloane, music, “Heaven Will Protect the Working Girl (A Burlesque Ballad)” (New York: Charles K. Harris, 1909). Sheet Music Consortium, http://digital.library.ucla.edu/sheetmusic/ , accessed April 7, 2009. According to Gerald Bordman, this song, “the most famous song A. Baldwin Sloane ever compose…ebooks/Magee, Jeffrey/Irving Berlin's American Musical Theater (Broadway Legacies) - Jeffrey Magee.txt
- Even the Rogerses’ scores were imitations. Weber and Fields used composer John Stromberg and lyricist Edgar Smith, and the Rogerses had, mainly, composers Maurice Levi and Max Hoffmann. But one cannot tell the two series apart by their songs. We know “Come Down Ma Evenin’ Star” is a Weberfields piece (from Twirly Whirly ) because a famous…ebooks/Mordden, Ethan/Anything Goes_ A History of American Musical Theatre - Ethan Mordden.txt
Passages naming this person, found by keyword across 178 books. A keyword match is not a biography, and a common name will pull in the wrong one.
What this page does not know
- What this person played. No cast list we hold records a character against a performer.
- 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 — lyricist, 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.