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George Edwardes (1855–1915) was a leading producer in London in the decades surrounding the turn of the twentieth century. His fame at the Gaiety Theatre, Daly’s Theatre, and Prince of Wales’s Theatre established him as a leader in the post-Gilbert and Sullivan generation of musical theatre creators. He was a driving force behind a new type of burlesque that lasted for an entire evening and a particular style of musical comedy that blended elements of comic opera and music hall. After the turn of the century, he began producing translations of Continental shows, most famously The Merry Widow in 1907.
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Everett, W.A. (2017). George Edwardes: The Guv’nor of Late Victorian Musical Theatre. In: MacDonald, L., Everett, W. (eds) The Palgrave Handbook of Musical Theatre Producers. Palgrave Macmillan, New York. https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-43308-4_5
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