Historical Dictionary of the Broadway Musical by William A. Everett

Author:William A. Everett
Language: eng
Format: epub, pdf
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Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Published: 2012-04-15T00:00:00+00:00

MANDEL, FRANK (1884–1958)

He began his career as a journalist and wrote librettos for musical comedies before teaming up with Laurence Schwab on No, No, Nanette! (1925). Mandel and Schwab produced a series of successful shows in the 1920s, including the sports-themed musical comedies Good News! (1927) and Follow Thru (1929) and the operettas The Desert Song (1926) and The New Moon (1928). They continued to produce operettas with scores by Sigmund Romberg in the 1930s, including East Wind (1931) and May Wine (1935), but after the failure of these shows, Mandel went to Hollywood, where he directed films until his retirement in 1942. Mandel and Schwab helped inaugurate a new type of operetta, one that was not purely escapist in nature but rather addressed contemporary social issues and in many ways prefigured the “musical drama” so closely associated with the work of Richard Rodgers and their own collaborator Oscar Hammerstein II.

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