Musicals Set in Early 1900s
Musicals Set in Early 1900s
mamajunebug95
Swing Joined: 5/4/12
#1Musicals Set in Early 1900s
Posted: 5/4/12 at 10:50pmWondering if anybody knows of any musicals that are set in the early 1900s on a farm?
#2Musicals Set in Early 1900s
Posted: 5/4/12 at 11:34pmOklahoma! is set in 1906, I believe, and on a farm.
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henrikegerman
Broadway Legend Joined: 4/29/05
#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
#6Musicals Set in Early 1900s
Posted: 5/5/12 at 2:17amAlthough, again, Fiddler on the Roof is not really set on a farm...
#7Musicals Set in Early 1900s
Posted: 5/5/12 at 2:48amThe Wizard of Oz ... at least the beginning and the end.
"Jaws is the Citizen Kane of movies."
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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")
winston89
Broadway Legend Joined: 6/18/06
#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."
"If you try to shag my husband while I am still alive, I will shove the art of motorcycle maintenance up your rancid little Cu**. That's a good dear"
Tom Stoppard's Rock N Roll
chewy5000
Broadway Legend Joined: 12/1/09
#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
Featured Actor Joined: 6/24/07
henrikegerman
Broadway Legend Joined: 4/29/05
#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
#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.
"Jaws is the Citizen Kane of movies."
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henrikegerman
Broadway Legend Joined: 4/29/05
#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.
There is no better life than this!
Updated On: 5/5/12 at 08:06 AM
Inigomontoya
Featured Actor Joined: 6/24/07
#16Musicals Set in Early 1900s
Posted: 5/5/12 at 12:35pmThough 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
Featured Actor Joined: 7/12/07
ChildrenwillListen
Featured Actor Joined: 3/12/12
#20Musicals Set in Early 1900s
Posted: 5/5/12 at 2:38pmHe has some animals, but it's not really a farm.
henrikegerman
Broadway Legend Joined: 4/29/05
#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
Broadway Legend Joined: 6/28/11
#22Musicals Set in Early 1900s
Posted: 5/5/12 at 3:32pmWikipedia 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.
#23Musicals Set in Early 1900s
Posted: 5/5/12 at 3:35pm^ Correct!
"Jaws is the Citizen Kane of movies."
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Gaveston2
Broadway Legend Joined: 6/28/11
#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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