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.

Product details

• Authors: Thomas A. Bogar, Bogar Thomas A.
• Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 24.03.2023
• EAN: 9781538183557
• ISBN: 978-1-5381-8355-7
• Dimensions: 151 mm x 227 mm x 18 mm
• Weight: 426 g
• Illustrations: 12 BW Photos
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Regional and national histories; 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