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COPYRIGHT 2005 Metropolitan Opera Guild, Inc.
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...
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