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Posted by:	MFeingold (feinpress@earthlink.net) 04:36 pm EST 01/21/14
In reply to:	Female authors on Broadway - 1912 & 2012 ... - NewtonUK 01:19 pm EST 01/21/14

Some of these are in fact extremely intresting pieces. Githa (not Gita) Sowerby's RUTHERFORD & SON has been one of feminist scholarship's big rediscoveries & is now in a lot of anthologies of women playwrights. It's had revivals in England & Canada (at the Shaw Festival) and was staged here by the Mint 2-3 years ago. Lady Gregory's one-acts are really charming and it's a puzzle to me why our Irish-dedicated theatres don't revive them. SPREADING THE NEWS, btw, is the model for the "I Just Heard" number in FIDDLER ON THE ROOF. Mary Roberts Rinehart was better known as a mystery novelist. Her best-selling thriller THE BAT (no relation to DIE FLEDERMAUS!) was a gigantic hit when she and Avery Hopwood adapted it for the stage in 1920; it's had multiple revivals and film versions. Frances Hodgson Burnett was also a famous novelist, writing mainly for children, who frequently adapted her own work for the stage. Her best-known work (as both novel & play) in her own time was LITTLE LORD FAUNTLEROY, but she's probably best-known now as the author of THE SECRET GARDEN (also adapted for the stage, but not by her). Anne Caldwell and Rida Johnson Young both had extensive careers in operetta/musical comedy. Interestingly, after the 1912-1913 season items you list, it was Caldwell who mainly collaborated with Jerome Kern, and Young with Victor Herbert. Broadway last heard a lyric of Young's when Herbert's "I'm Falling in Love with Someone" was used in THOROUGHLY MODERN MILLIE.

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