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''The Circus Girl'' is a musical comedy in two acts by James T. Tanner and Walter Apllant (Palings), with lyrics by Harry Greenbank and Adrian Ross, music by Ivan Caryll, and additional music by Lionel Monckton.〔("The Circus Girl" ), ''The Guide to Musical Theatre'', accessed October 23, 2012〕 The musical was produced at George Edwardes's Gaiety Theatre, beginning 5 December 1896, and ran for a very successful 497 performances.〔 It starred Seymour Hicks as Dick Capel and his wife Ellaline Terriss as Dora Wemyss. Edmund Payne and Arthur Williams also appeared. The show also had a successful New York run at two theatres in 1897 for a total of 172 performances. It was produced by Charles Frohman.〔 Mabelle Gilman Corey played Lucille and Nancy McIntosh played La Favorita in New York.〔Brown, Thomas Allston. ("A history of the New York stage" ). Dodd, Mead and company (1903), pp. 580–82〕 Set in Paris, the plot concerns a group of English tourists who get mixed up with a circus troupe. Two of the famous songs from the show are "A Little Bit of String" and "The Way to Treat a Lady". ==Background== Ellaline Terriss wrote: :One night Sir Arthur Sullivan came to see ''The Circus Girl'' and was good enough to come round after the play to my dressing-room. I was a little afraid that he might be contemptuous of our gay, light-hearted trifle, but no, not at all, he said he had been delighted with everything, the comedy, the charm, the setting – it is true that the play was beautifully mounted. Edwardes had caught the atmosphere of the circus ring and the last scene, "The Artists' Ball," was one of the finest The Guv'nor had ever staged. It got rounds of applause when the curtain went up, at every performance. Sullivan was loud in his praises of the music, too – there was no criticism from him. And he expressed great pleasure in my own performance, going so far as to say that he hoped I would be able to create a part in one of his next works.〔Shepherd, Marc. (Views of W. S. Gilbert, by Ellaline Terriss and Seymour Hicks ), Cris.com, accessed October 23, 2012〕 Later during the London production, Terriss's father, actor William Terriss, was murdered outside the Adelphi Theatre in London, creating a sensation in the press and an outpouring of sympathy for Terriss and Hicks.〔Taylor, C.M.P. (Terriss, Ellaline. ''Oxford Dictionary of National Biography'' ), Oxford University Press, accessed 7 January 2012〕 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 Circus Girl」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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