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Poster for Evangeline (1878) Evangeline; or, The Belle of Acadia is a musical Extravaganza, with music by Edward E. Rice (arranged and orchestrated by John J. Braham) and lyrics and book by J. Cheever Goodwin. [1] It was a comedy loosely based on Henry Wadsworth Longfellow's 1847 serious epic poem Evangeline. [2]
The poem was first adapted into a theatrical musical in 1874, as Evangeline; or, The Belle of Acadia, which was a Broadway success through the late 19th century. [ 37 ] The Canadian folk singer-songwriter Susan Crowe mentions the "statue of Evangeline" in her song "Your One and Only Life", the first track on an album entitled The Door to the ...
In another version, he saw the English production of The Black Crook and became interested in creating an American musical. [3] In 1874 Rice and Goodwin created an extravaganza, Evangeline; or, The Belle of Acadia, a musical burlesque of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow's Evangeline, that became the first American production billed as a musical comedy.
Performed by Eliza Weathersby in the Victorian burlesque musical Evangeline "Oh! Dat Watermelon!" by Luke Schoolcraft "Ninety and Nine" w. Elizabeth Clephane (1868), m. Ira Sankey (1874) "We met by chance, sweet Jenny," words by Samuel N. Mitchell, music by William A. Huntley [1] "Won't You Buy My Pretty Flowers?" w. Arthur W. French, m. George ...
Evangeline (1874 musical), an 1874 musical with music by Edward E. Rice, the first American production billed as musical comedy; Evangeline, a 1946 West End musical by George Posford and Harry Jacobson; Evangeline (1999 musical), a 1998 Canadian musical by Jamie Wax and Paul Taranto; Evangeline, a 2014 Canadian opera, composed by Colin ...
Evangeline is a musical with a book by Jamie Wax, lyrics by Wax and Paul Taranto, and music by Paul Taranto.. Peopled by characters introduced by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow in his 1847 epic poem of the same name, it tells the tale of Evangeline Bellefontaine and Gabriel Lajeunesse, born on the same mid-18th century day in the Acadian village of Grand-Pré in Nova Scotia.
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[27] [28] The same year, The Black Domino/Between You, Me and the Post was the first show to call itself a "musical comedy." In 1874, Evangeline or The Belle of Arcadia, by Edward E. Rice and J. Cheever Goodwin, based loosely on Longfellow’s Evangeline, with an original American story and music, opened successfully in New York and was revived ...