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Ivan Caryll

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Composer 1861–1921

Félix Marie Henri Tilkin (12 May 1861 – 29 November 1921), better known by his pen name Ivan Caryll, was a Belgian-born composer of operettas and Edwardian musical comedies in the English language, who made his career in London and later New York. He composed (or contributed to) some forty musical comedies and operettas. Caryll's career encompassed three eras of the musical theatre, and unlike some of his contemporaries, he adapted readily to each new development. After composing a few musical burlesques, his first great successes were made in light musical comedies, epitomised by the George Edwardes productions at London's Gaiety Theatre, such as The Shop Girl, The Circus Girl, The Gay Pari…

Also credited on2 works

The Pink Lady
The Canary

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  • After winning success in London, composer Ivan Caryll indited the scores for 14 Broadway musicals. His most celebrated production was The Pink Lady , which contained the durable song “My Beautiful Lady” and gave Hazel Dawn a memorable role that allowed her to play the violin. The story, adapted from a French play, Le Satyr , takes place i…ebooks/Green, Stanley/Broadway Musicals, Show By Show - Seventh Edition - Stanley Green & Cary Ginell.txt
  • Perhaps musical comedy was simply the earthier form, on the risqué side. Ivan Caryll and C. M. S. McLellan’s The Pink Lady (1911) and Oh! Oh! Delphine (1912) were each billed as a “musical comedy,” and the erotic does rather hover over the action. The Pink Lady tells of a satyr loose in Paris stealing kisses, and Delphine ’s heroine has a…ebooks/Mordden, Ethan/Anything Goes_ A History of American Musical Theatre - Ethan Mordden.txt
  • McLellan; music: Ivan Caryll. Operetta based on the French farce Le Satyre by Georges Berr and Marcel Guil-theatre-pdfs/McGraw-Hill Encyclopedia of World Drama, v. 3 (I-N).txt

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