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Henry Blossom

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LyricistBook Writer 1866–1919

Henry Martyn Blossom Jr. (May 10, 1866 – March 23, 1919) was an American writer, playwright, novelist, opera librettist, and lyricist. He first gained wide attention for his second novel, Checkers: A Hard Luck Story (1896), which was successfully adapted by Blossom into a 1903 Broadway play, Checkers. It was Blossom's first stage work and his first critical success in the theatre. The play in turn was adapted by others creatives into two silent films, one in 1913 and the other in 1919, and the play was the basis for the 1920 Broadway musical Honey Girl. Checkers was soon followed by Blossom's first critical success as a lyricist, the comic opera The Yankee Consul (1903), on which he collabor…

Also credited on3 works

Mlle. Modiste
The Red Mill
The Century Girl

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In the literature7 passages

  • And in 1905 the fecund Henry Blossom wrote the words for Victor Herbert's successful M11e. Modiste containing lines like:ebooks/Engel, Lehman/Words with Music_ Creating the Broadway Musical Libretto - Lehman Engel.txt
  • Mlle. Modiste inaugurated the partnership of composer Victor Herbert and librettist-lyricist Henry Blossom (they wrote eight scores together), and was their second in popularity to The Red Mill . The operetta was closely identified with prima donna Fritzi Scheff, who would be called upon to sing “Kiss Me Again” for the rest of her life (i…ebooks/Green, Stanley/Broadway Musicals, Show By Show - Seventh Edition - Stanley Green & Cary Ginell.txt
  • I f Harry B. Smith was more or less the dependable but uninspired lion king of librettist-lyricists, Henry Blossom, nine years Smith’s junior, was the young tiger. Though Blossom tended to write for the more accomplished composers in comic opera, he had a musical-comedy mentality. The aforementioned Yankee Consul that couldn’t decide whet…ebooks/Mordden, Ethan/Anything Goes_ A History of American Musical Theatre - Ethan Mordden.txt
  • Herbert then scored two successive hits with Mlle Modiste and The Red Mill , both with librettos by Henry Blossom (1866–1919). Mlle Modiste starred Fritzi Scheff in the role of the milliner Fifi. The Viennese-born Scheff (1879–1954) had trained as an opera singer and performed at the Metropolitan Opera House before decamping to Broadway w…ebooks/Music, The Cambridge Companion To The Musical Cambridge Companions To/Cambridge Companion to the Musical (Cambridge Companions to Music), The - The Cambridge Companion To The Musical Cambridge Companions To Music.txt
  • Boys and Betty;” Fritzi Scheff was appearing in “The Prima Donna,” a comic opera by Victor Herbert and Henry Blossom; Eddie Foy was in “Mr. Hamlet of Broadway;” Richard Carle was in “Mary’s Lamb;” Mabel Barrison starred in “The Blue Mouse;” “Sporting Days” was the spectacular musical production at the Hippodrome; in “The American Idea” ca…theatre-pdfs/A Pictorial History of the American Theatre, 1860-1985 (Blum).txt
  • Mile. Modiste (1905). Book and lyrics: Henry Blossom; music: Victor Herbert. Comic opera that takes place in Paris, involving the love affair of Captain Etienne de Bouvray and Fifi, an employee in Mme. Cecile's hat shop on the Rue de la Paix. Objections to the marriage bytheatre-pdfs/McGraw-Hill Encyclopedia of World Drama, v. 3 (I-N).txt

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