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''The Cabaret Girl'' is a musical comedy in three acts with music by Jerome Kern and book and lyrics by George Grossmith, Jr. and P. G. Wodehouse.〔''Play Pictorial'', 1922, p. 114〕 It was produced by Grossmith and J. A. E. Malone at the Winter Garden Theatre in London's West End in September 1922 and featured Dorothy Dickson, Grossmith, Geoffrey Gwyther, and Norman Griffin (later replaced by Leslie Henson) in the leading roles. The first performance was originally scheduled for Thursday, 14 September 1922, with Henson in a leading role,〔''The Times'', 7 September 1922〕 but he fell ill on the morning of the scheduled opening,〔Davis 1993〕 which was delayed to allow Griffin to prepare for the part. The show finally opened the following Tuesday, 19 September. According to the reviewer in ''The Times'', "Last night the piece received the warmest of receptions and thoroughly deserved it."〔''The Times'', 20 September 1922〕 The production ran for 361 performances, closing on 11 August 1923.〔''The Times'', 11 August 1923〕 Henson took over from Griffin in January 1924〔''The Times'', 22 January 1923〕 and the latter then took the show on tour.〔''The Manchester Guardian'', 31 March 1923〕 ''The Cabaret Girl'' was first given an American production in 2004 when San Francisco's 42nd Street Moon company produced a staged concert of the show. Its first full American production was in 2008, when the Ohio Light Opera gave seven performances, between 26 June and 8 August, as part of their 30th Anniversary season.〔''Opera News'', June 2008〕 The same company released a commercial recording of the work in 2009 on Albany Records.〔''Fanfare'', August 2009〕〔''Opera News'', July 2009〕 The recording is the earliest work composed by Kern to be restored and recorded in its original form.〔''Playbill'', 15 March 2009〕 The first New York City production was given in March 2009, in a concert staging by the semi-professional troupe Musicals Tonight!〔''TheatreMania'', 12 February 2009〕 ==Background== Actor-manager George Grossmith, Jr. and his partner Edward Laurillard bought the New Middlesex Theatre in London's West End in 1919 and, after its refurbishment, re-opened it as the Winter Garden Theatre. The first production was ''Kissing Time'', written by P. G. Wodehouse and Guy Bolton and starring Grossmith and Leslie Henson. After Grossmith's partnership with Laurillard broke up two years later, Grossmith retained control of the Winter Garden〔Gänzl 2004〕 where, between 1921 and 1926, in partnership with Pat Malone, he produced a series of shows, many of which were adaptations of imported shows and featured Henson. The first production by the Grossmith-Malone partnership was ''Sally'', with music by Jerome Kern, a book by Bolton and some of the lyrics by Wodehouse, which was the London transfer of a Broadway hit. The second, with an original book, was ''The Cabaret Girl''. Kern and Wodehouse had both worked with Grossmith early in their careers and had, together with Bolton, created an innovative series of musicals for the Princess Theatre on Broadway.〔〔Byrnside, Ronald and Andrew Lamb. ("Kern, Jerome (David)" ). ''Grove Online'', Oxford Music Online, accessed May 10, 2010 (requires subscription).〕 In his 1933 autobiography, Grossmith described how he, Wodehouse and Kern managed their collaboration. While the two writers travelled to New York, drafting the lyrics of the ensemble numbers and finales on the boat, Kern was already at work at his home in Bronxville, New York, composing the melodies. When the trio gathered at Bronxville, Kern began setting the completed lyrics to music, while Grossmith and Wodehouse prepared "dummy" lyrics for Kern's melodies, the actual lyrics being completed on the return voyage. The trio worked from piano or "fiddle" copies of the music, leaving Kern to follow them to London with the completed orchestration a few weeks later.〔Banfield 2006, p. 40〕 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「The Cabaret Girl」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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