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Chauncey Olcott (born John Chancellor Olcott) (July 21, 1858 – March 18, 1932) was an American stage actor, songwriter and singer of Irish descent. ==Biography== He was born in Buffalo, New York. His mother, Margaret (née Doyle), was a native of Killeagh, County Cork.〔Axel Klein: "Olcott, Chauncey", in: ''The Encyclopaedia of Music in Ireland'', ed. by Harry White & Barra Boydell (Dublin: UCD Press, 2013), p. 775–76; ISBN 978-1-906359-78-2.〕 In the early years of his career Olcott sang in minstrel shows, before studying singing in London during the 1880s. Lillian Russell played a major role in helping make him a Broadway star.〔One of his shows not listed in the IBDb database is ''Pepita; or, the Girl with the Glass Eyes''. See Welch, Deshler. ( - ''The Theatre'' ), vol. 1, 1886, p. 150, accessed June 27, 2013; and Brown, Thomas Alston. ( ''A History of the New York Stage'' ), 1903, p. 176, accessed June 27, 2013.〕 When the producer Augustus Pitou approached him in 1893 to succeed William J. Scanlan as the leading tenor in sentimental operettas on Irish themes, Olcott accepted and performed pseudo-Irish roles for the remainder of his career. Olcott combined the roles of tenor, actor, lyricist and composer in many productions. He wrote the complete scores to Irish musicals such as ''Sweet Inniscara'' (1897), ''A Romance of Athlone'' (1899), ''Garret O'Magh'' (1901), and ''Old Limerick Town'' (1902). For other productions he collaborated with Ernest R. Ball and George Graff in works such as ''The Irish Artist'' (1894), ''Barry of Ballymore'' (1910), ''Macushla'' (1912), and ''The Isle o' Dreams'' (1913). There are some 20 such works between 1894 and 1920.〔Klein (2013), as above.〕 He was a good songwriter who captured the mood of his Irish-American audience by combining melodic and rhythmic phrases from traditional Irish music with melancholy sentiment. Some numbers from his musicals became very popular, such as "My Wild Irish Rose" from ''A Romance of Athlone'', "Mother Machree" from ''Barry of Ballymore'', and "When Irish Eyes Are Smiling" from ''The Isle o' Dreams''. Sometimes he borrowed tunes from others, such as the title track from ''Macushla'' from Irish composer Dermot Macmurrough (pseudonym of Harold R. White) or ''Too Ra Loo Ra Loo Ral'' (''Irish Lullaby'') by James Royce Shannon for his production ''Shameen Dhu'' (1914). In 1925, a serious illness forced him to retire, and he moved to Monte Carlo where he died of pernicious anemia in 1932. His body was brought home and interred in the Woodlawn Cemetery in The Bronx. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Chauncey Olcott」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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