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04102aam a2200505 i 4500 001 CB7940FC68DD11EA9C5A9E4D97128E48 003 SILO 005 20200318010024 008 190709t20202020enkab b 001 0beng 010 $a 2019025501 020 $a 1108487890 020 $a 9781108487894 035 $a (OCoLC)1110663025 040 $a LBSOR/DLC $b eng $e rda $c DLC $d OCLCO $d YDX $d OCLCF $d OCL $d OCLCA $d QGK $d YDX $d SILO 042 $a pcc 043 $a n-us--- 050 00 $a PN2287.B1644 $b B35 2020 082 00 $a B $a B $2 23 100 1 $a Balme, Christopher B., $e author. 245 14 $a The globalization of theatre 1870-1930 : $b the theatrical networks of Maurice E. Bandmann / $c Christopher B. Balme. 264 1 $a Cambridge, United Kingdom ; $b Cambridge University Press, $c 2020. 300 $a xiv, 276 pages : $b illustrations, map ; $c 24 cm. 490 1 $a Cambridge studies in modern theatre 504 $a Includes bibliographical references and index. 505 0 $a Family networks -- Mobile enterprises -- The micropolitics of locality -- Repertoires and publics -- Transported actors -- Contested contracts -- Infrastructure : from theatre to cinema -- Legacies. 520 $a "When the Anglo-American theatre manager and actor, Maurice E. Bandmann, died of enteric fever at the Colonial Hospital in Gibraltar on 9 March 1922 shortly before his fiftieth birthday, the event was reported across the English-speaking world from Madras to Singapore, and from Cairo to Hong Kong, with many newspapers carrying lengthy obituaries: The Times of India called him 'the pioneer of musical comedy in this part of the world' having 'brought to the East some forty or fifty companies. The Straits Times in Singapore claimed that 'he inaugurated the system that will remain as a monument to his memory in theatrical circles. The Era, London's theatrical trade paper, emphasized 'the fine plays and well-equipped companies he presented (which) became famous in all parts of the world, many stars appearing under his management, and the Bandman Opera Company, with all the latest musical comedy successes, was exceedingly popular everywhere in the East. As these statements indicate, Maurice Bandmann was at the time considered a key figure in what will be called in this book, the globalization of theatre. For over two decades, Bandmann was a household name in the theatre world of the time, a guarantor of quality itinerant theatrical entertainment, especially of musical comedy performed by the legendary Bandmann Opera Company. The Bandmann Circuit, as it was known, extended from Gibraltar to Tokyo and included more than two dozen towns and cities, across the Asian continent as well as occasional forays across to the West Indies and even South America. In terms of sheer reach and territory covered, Bandmann was a global theatrical entrepreneur, who, while certainly concentrating on English-speaking settlements also performed regularly in Japan to Japanese audiences, before Chinese in Shanghai and Peking and numerous cities where audiences were linguistically mixed"-- $c Provided by publisher. 600 10 $a Bandmann, Maurice E. $q (Maurice Edward), $d 1872-1922. 650 0 $a Theatrical managers $z United States $v Biography. 650 0 $a Actors $z United States $v Biography. 650 0 $a Traveling theater $x History. 650 0 $a Theater and globalization. 650 0 $a Actors $x Social networks. 650 0 $a Actor-network theory. 650 7 $a Actor-network theory. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01736774 650 7 $a Actors. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00796296 650 7 $a Theater and globalization. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01745966 650 7 $a Theatrical managers. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01149423 650 7 $a Traveling theater. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01155791 651 7 $a United States. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01204155 655 7 $a Biographies. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01919896 655 7 $a History. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01411628 830 0 $a Cambridge studies in modern theatre. 941 $a 1 952 $l OVUX522 $d 20220317020344.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=CB7940FC68DD11EA9C5A9E4D97128E48Initiate Another SILO Locator Search