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Extravaganza King: Robert Barnet and Boston Musical Theatre.(book)(Book Review)
Extravaganza King: Robert Barnet and Boston Musical Theater
by Anne Alison Barnet
Northeastern University, Press, 223 pp. $28.95
A forgotten page of musical-theater history is uncovered in this unusual, thoroughly engaging little book. Robert Barnet (1853-1933), a prosperous Boston sugar merchant, helped raise money to build Boston's magnificent downtown armory by staging hugely popular amateur "extravaganzas"--lavish musical farces rooted in the Hasty Pudding Club tradition, featuring huge all-male casts bedecked in fantastic costumes and frolicking in elaborate sets. The actors were mostly members of the First Corps of Cadets, a volunteer militia of upper-class Boston businessmen who believed that a municipal armory was a necessity due to the threat of local immigrant uprisings during the late-nineteenth century. From 1884 through 1906, Barnet wrote, directed, produced and appeared in fifteen of these block-busters. The most elite members of Boston society--including the Governor of Massachusetts--would regularly attend opening nights, sitting back and roaring at the antics of the drag divas cramming the stage.
This book, written by Robert Barnet's great-granddaughter, represents a heroic job of ...
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