For One Week Only!: The Norfolk and Norwich Operatic Society, 1925–2025
Boydell & Brewer (Verlag)
978-1-83765-215-0 (ISBN)
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For One Week Only, published in time for the Norfolk and Norwich Operatic Society's centenary in January 2025, celebrates the company's relationship with the Theatre Royal Norwich, one of the most successful major provincial theatres in the country. The book charts the development of the Society over a hundred years of musical theatre, British and American. Each of the almost 100 productions has its own lively, informative and socially aware essay, accompanied by photographs revealing the development of the company from its origins in 1925, as well as showing the changing faces and styles of musical theatre throughout the century. The early years of the Society favoured such continental operettas as The Marriage Market and the bewitching Sybil before a long dalliance with Gilbert and Sullivan from which it broke free after World War II, although Iolanthe returned for her third outing in 1955. The Society's fascination with operetta continued through the 1960s with such sturdy favourites as The Student Prince, The Merry Widow and Rose Marie, with an occasional recognition of the British musical, notably in the 1975 production of Ivor Novello's King's Rhapsody and in the hugely successful Betty Blue Eyes of 2024. For One Week Only explores the history of the N&N and its ongoing contribution to the arts in Norfolk. Warmly and wittily, it lifts the curtain on a story of theatrical endurance and adventure.
ADRIAN WRIGHT is a performer, novelist and writer. His previous books with Boydell include A Tanner's Worth of Tune: Rediscovering the Post-War British Musical (2010), West End Broadway: The Golden Age of the American Musical in London (2012) and Must Close Saturday: The Decline and Fall of the British Musical Flop (2017). He has previously written on the subject of film music in his biography of William Alwyn, The Innumerable Dance (2008), and his fiction includes the Francis and Gordon Jones Mysteries series: The Voice of Doom, The Coming Day and Forget Me Not.
List of Illustrations
Preface and Acknowledgements
Opening Night
Beginnings
The 1920s
- Dorothy
- Les Cloches de Corneville
- The Gondoliers
- The Little Michus
The 1930s
- The Marriage Market
- Sybil
- The Mikado
- The Yeomen of the Guard
- The Rebel Maid
- Iolanthe
- The Gondoliers
- Trial by Jury/H. M. S. Pinafore
- Merrie England
The 1940s
- Iolanthe
- The Mikado
- Ruddigore
The 1950s
- The Gondoliers
- Trial by Jury/H. M. S. Pinafore
- The Pirates of Penzance/Cox and Box
- The Yeomen of the Guard
- The Maid of the Mountains
- Iolanthe
- The Quaker Girl
- The Belle of New York
- White Horse Inn
- Show Boat
The 1960s
- The Desert Song
- The Gypsy Princess
- The Student Prince
- Oklahoma!
- Pink Champagne
- The Merry Widow
- Brigadoon
- Song of Norway
- Rose Marie
- Kismet
The 1970s
- White Horse Inn
- Annie Get Your Gun
- Carousel
- The Dubarry
- Hello, Dolly!
- King's Rhapsody
- South Pacific
- Camelot
- Gigi
- The Merry Widow
The 1980s
- Fiddler on the Roof
- Kiss Me, Kate
- Die Fledermaus
- Oklahoma!
- The Most Happy Fella
- The King and I
- My Fair Lady
- Guys and Dolls
- Brigadoon
- The Sound of Music
The 1990s
- Annie Get Your Gun
- The Music Man
- Oliver!
- 42nd Street
- Meet Me in St Louis
- Barnum
- Hello, Dolly!
- Carousel
The 2000s
- Me and My Girl
- Mack and Mabel
- South Pacific
- My Fair Lady
- Kiss Me, Kate
- Jesus Christ Superstar
- Oklahoma!
- 42nd Street
- Titanic
- West Side Story
The 2010s
- The Producers
- Fiddler on the Roof
- Hello, Dolly!
- Sweeney Todd
- Anything Goes
- Sister Act
- Sunset Boulevard
- The Witches of Eastwick
- Top Hat
- Guys and Dolls
The 2020s
- Made in Dagenham
- The Sound of Music
- Kinky Boots
- Betty Blue Eyes
Envoi
Appendix 1: The Norwich Amateur Operatic Company
Appendix 2: Directors and Musical Directors
Notes
Select Bibliography
Index of Musical Works
General Index
| Erscheint lt. Verlag | 7.1.2025 |
|---|---|
| Zusatzinfo | 72 b/w illus. |
| Verlagsort | Woodbridge |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 156 x 234 mm |
| Gewicht | 634 g |
| Themenwelt | Literatur ► Lyrik / Dramatik ► Dramatik / Theater |
| Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Musik ► Klassik / Oper / Musical | |
| Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Theater / Ballett | |
| Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Neuzeit (bis 1918) | |
| ISBN-10 | 1-83765-215-5 / 1837652155 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-1-83765-215-0 / 9781837652150 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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