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Wondering if anybody knows of any musicals that are set in the early 1900s on a farm?
Oklahoma! is set in 1906, I believe, and on a farm.
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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
Although, again, Fiddler on the Roof is not really set on a farm...
The Wizard of Oz ... at least the beginning and the end.
"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")
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."
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
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"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
"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.
^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
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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?
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He has some animals, but it's not really a farm.
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
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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.
^ Correct!
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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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