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Musicals Set in Early 1900s

mamajunebug95
#1Musicals Set in Early 1900s
Posted: 5/4/12 at 10:50pm

Wondering if anybody knows of any musicals that are set in the early 1900s on a farm?

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#2Musicals Set in Early 1900s
Posted: 5/4/12 at 11:34pm

Oklahoma! is set in 1906, I believe, and on a farm.

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ChenoKahn
#2Musicals Set in Early 1900s
Posted: 5/4/12 at 11:36pm

Correct me if I'm wrong but Ragtime.

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#3Musicals Set in Early 1900s
Posted: 5/4/12 at 11:39pm

I don't recall any farm scenes in Ragtime.

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#4Musicals Set in Early 1900s
Posted: 5/4/12 at 11:40pm

Oh haha just looked at early 1900's.

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henrikegerman
#5Musicals Set in Early 1900s
Posted: 5/5/12 at 12:47am

Fiddler On The Roof. The Yearling also comes to mind although that's late 1800s I think.

Updated On: 5/5/12 at 12:47 AM

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#6Musicals Set in Early 1900s
Posted: 5/5/12 at 2:17am

Although, again, Fiddler on the Roof is not really set on a farm...

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#7Musicals Set in Early 1900s
Posted: 5/5/12 at 2:48am

The Wizard of Oz ... at least the beginning and the end.


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#8Musicals Set in Early 1900s
Posted: 5/5/12 at 4:09am

"Titanic"

"The Music Man"

"The Unsinkable Molly Brown" (whose score was written by the same man who wrote "The Music Man" and whose title character is rescued from the "Titanic")

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winston89
#9Musicals Set in Early 1900s
Posted: 5/5/12 at 6:09am

Ragtime would count.

The first line in the show has the year in it. "In 1902, Father built a house, on the crest of the Broadview Avenue hill, in New Rochelle, New York."


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chewy5000
#10Musicals Set in Early 1900s
Posted: 5/5/12 at 6:13am

Well, I suppose that the Titanic did plow the ocean .

I'm here all week, try the fish.

Updated On: 5/5/12 at 06:13 AM

Inigomontoya
#11Musicals Set in Early 1900s
Posted: 5/5/12 at 6:46am

Does A little night music count?

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henrikegerman
#12Musicals Set in Early 1900s
Posted: 5/5/12 at 7:27am

"Although, again, Fiddler on the Roof is not really set on a farm..."

In what universe is Fiddler not really set on a farm? Tevye is a dairy farmer. Where do dairy farmers live? They live on dairy farms.




dairy farmer + horse + cow + hay + barn = dairy farm = farm Updated On: 5/5/12 at 07:27 AM

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#13Musicals Set in Early 1900s
Posted: 5/5/12 at 7:34am

"The house in New Rochelle," however, is not a farm.

None of the action of Music Man takes place on a farm. Or A Little Night Music, or Titanic.


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#14Musicals Set in Early 1900s
Posted: 5/5/12 at 8:06am

^for some people anything north of the Bronx River Parkway is farm country.

Perhaps Inigo might have been referring to Mme. Armfeldt's chateau, which I never thought of as a working farm in the musical, although it seems to be in Smiles of a Summer Night. I believe Frid is a groom/farmhand in the movie and a manservant in the show.

All of this has got me thinking, perhaps it is time for BABE the musical. I'm only half joking.


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Inigomontoya
#15Musicals Set in Early 1900s
Posted: 5/5/12 at 8:31am

Oh, didn't read the farm part

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#16Musicals Set in Early 1900s
Posted: 5/5/12 at 12:35pm

Though it ran only 37 performances in 1951, COURTIN' TIME. THE ROBBER BRIDEGROOM also, the father is a tobacco farmer, though do not recall what year it is set in - anyone?

minicko88
#17Musicals Set in Early 1900s
Posted: 5/5/12 at 1:53pm

What about Parade? 1913 and the South?

ChildrenwillListen
#18Musicals Set in Early 1900s
Posted: 5/5/12 at 1:54pm

Why does it need to be on a farm?

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#19Musicals Set in Early 1900s
Posted: 5/5/12 at 2:35pm

Oklahoma is the best bet!

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ClapYo'Hands
#20Musicals Set in Early 1900s
Posted: 5/5/12 at 2:38pm

He has some animals, but it's not really a farm.

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henrikegerman
#21Musicals Set in Early 1900s
Posted: 5/5/12 at 3:27pm

About ten minutes near the beginning of The Will Rogers Follies takes plays at a ranch in around 1900. There's also a musical of Anne of Green Gables, although I don't believe it's ever been done in New York.

Updated On: 5/5/12 at 03:27 PM

Gaveston2
#22Musicals Set in Early 1900s
Posted: 5/5/12 at 3:32pm

Wikipedia puts THE ROBBER BRIDEGROOM in the late 18th century. I haven't seen it in almost 40 years, but I believe the action takes place on the Natchez Trace, before roads were built and probably decades before Mississippi was cleared for farming.

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#23Musicals Set in Early 1900s
Posted: 5/5/12 at 3:35pm

^ Correct!


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Gaveston2
#24Musicals Set in Early 1900s
Posted: 5/5/12 at 3:45pm

Thank you, b12.

I don't know how loosely "early 1900s" can be being defined by the OP, but PLAIN AND FANCY takes place in the mid-1900s and really emphasizes the city-folks-in-the-country theme. I've only read the libretto, but the score has some fanatical adherents.


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