Champagne Sparkle - Maggie Mitchell, the First Musical Comedy Star of the American Stage

This, the first biography of the first American musical comedy star, Maggie Mitchell (1836-1918), elucidates her explosive talent, her manifold challenges, and her indomitable perseverance in delighting audiences for forty years. As an icon of respectability in a field often condemned by moralists, she left a legacy of unparalleled achievement.

List of contents

Introduction

Chapter 1: "a wild, restless, spritely little thing"

Chapter 2: "emphatically the People's Pet"

Chapter 3: "quivering masculine hearts"

Chapter 4: Fanchon

Chapter 5: "talked about as much as the war"

Chapter 6: "she will never be more idolized than she was by the soldiers"

Chapter 7: "everything has been deranged"

Chapter 8: "Maggie Mitchell stands unrivaled"

Chapter 9: California and "Cricket Lodge"

Chapter 10: "she does not counterfeit it, but feels it"

Chapter 11: "everything she attempts is Fanchon"

Chapter 12: "bathed in the fountain of perennial youth"

Chapter 13: "she can't quit the stage"

Chapter 14: "completely under his influence"

Chapter 15: "dissipated and untrue"

Chapter 16: "it is the music of the heart"

Acknowledgments

About the author

Thomas A. Bogar is a professor at Hood College in Frederick, Maryland, a judge for Washington, D.C.'s Helen Hayes Theatre Awards, and a consultant for the American Council on Education. He has written numerous journal articles and lives in Silver Spring, Maryland.

Summary

This, the first biography of the first American musical comedy star, Maggie Mitchell (1836-1918), elucidates her explosive talent, her manifold challenges, and her indomitable perseverance in delighting audiences for forty years. As an icon of respectability in a field often condemned by moralists, she left a legacy of unparalleled achievement.

Product details

• Authors: Thomas A Bogar, Thomas A. Bogar, Bogar Thomas A.
• Publisher: Rowman and Littlefield
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.09.2020
• EAN: 9781538143483
• ISBN: 978-1-5381-4348-3
• No. of pages: 368
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature > Letters, diaries; Humanities, art, music > History > Regional and national histories; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; USA, Modern history to 20th century: c 1700 to c 1900, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Entertainment & Performing Arts, HISTORY / United States / Civil War Period (1850-1877), HISTORY / United States / 19th Century, c 1800 to c 1900, Biography: arts & entertainment, United States of America, USA, History of the Americas, Biography: arts and entertainment