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30-432: Pink Lady or The Pink Lady may refer to: Arts and entertainment [ edit ] The Pink Lady (musical) , a 1911 musical by Ivan Caryll Pink Lady (art) , a short-lived 1966 painting on a rock face near Malibu, California Pink Lady (duo) , a 1970s–80s Japanese pop music duo Pink Lady (1979 album) , a studio album by the duo Pink Lady (1981 album) ,

60-405: A card game in the same family as Newmarket Transportation [ edit ] Pink Lady (quartzite) , railroad track ballast The Pink Lady (aircraft) , a B-17G Flying Fortress bomber Ella's Pink Lady , the yacht used by Australian sailor Jessica Watson during her round-the-world voyage People [ edit ] Hazel Dawn (1890–1988), nicknamed "The Pink Lady" and one of

90-536: A cold and unloving wife. Lucien says that Claudine is Dondidier's wife, but Angele is not fooled ... until Claudine appears and backs up this story. Angele demands to know where in Paris Claudine and her husband reside. Claudine smoothly gives her an address, adding that Mr. Dondidier is an antiques dealer. It turns out that Bebe provided Claudine with the necessary facts, so that Angele would go ahead and marry Lucien. Having overheard Lucien claim that Dondidier

120-454: A compilation album by the duo Pink Lady Monogatari , a 1978 Japanese anime based on the duo Pink Lady (TV series) or Pink Lady and Jeff , a 1980 American television show starring the duo The Pink Ladies, female companions of the T-Birds in the two Grease movies and their stage musicals Food and medicine [ edit ] Cripps Pink , an apple cultivar sold under

150-470: A man named Dondidier, like Algernon's Bunbury, so that he may visit him in the country. His bride-to-be has a jealous admirer, Maurice, who persuades her to follow her future husband to witness his philandering. Angele insists on meeting Dondidier, whom Lucien identifies as the Satyr. Angele sees Lucien having lunch with Claudine. Angele vows to marry Bebe, although she is not attracted to him and plans to be

180-661: A man to his wife. Edwardian musical comedy Edwardian musical comedy is a genre of British musical theatre that thrived from 1892 into the 1920s, extending beyond the reign of King Edward VII in both directions. It began to dominate the English musical stage, and even the American musical theatre, when the Gilbert and Sullivan operas' dominance had ended, until the rise of American musicals by Jerome Kern , Rodgers and Hart , George Gershwin and Cole Porter following

210-639: A record setting 1,074 performances in London and 376 in New York. The story concerns couples who honeymoon in China and inadvertently break the kissing laws (shades of The Mikado ). Later enormously popular hits included Chu Chin Chow (1916), which ran for 2,238 performances (more than twice as many as any previous musical), Theodore & Co (1916), The Boy (1917), Yes, Uncle! (1917) and The Maid of

240-409: A resident company of artists, and the greatest stars of the era included actresses Marie Tempest , Gertie Millar , Lily Elsie , Ellaline Terriss and Phyllis Dare , leading men such as Hayden Coffin and Harry Grattan , and comics such as Rutland Barrington , George Grossmith, Jr., Huntley Wright and Edmund Payne . One critic wrote of Joseph Coyne that, like other stars of musical comedy, "It

270-559: A very successful 312 performances on Broadway in 1911 before becoming an ongoing favorite of regional producers in the Midwest. The story and lyrics by C.M.S. McLellan , about an antiques dealer, were adapted from a French farce , The Satyr , by Georges Berr and Marcel Guiltemand The musical premiered at the New Amsterdam Theatre in New York, running for 312 performances from March 13, 1911 to December 9, 1911. In

300-473: Is no good their pretending to be any one else. We go to see themselves, and all we ask is that the authors and others shall give them every chance of being themselves in the most pronounced and personal fashion". The Arcadians is generally regarded as the masterpiece of the genre. The composers were Monckton and Talbot, both at the height of their powers. The story, about the havoc wreaked when truth-telling Arcadians arrive in corrupt London, neatly parallels

330-745: Is the Satyr, everyone wishes to meet him in Paris. In Paris at the home of the curmudgeonly little antique dealer, his wife and the townswomen encourage the mousy man to demonstrate his talents as the famous Satyr. Two Greek statues, one of Aphrodite, the other of a satyr, have mysteriously disappeared from his shop. At the Ball of the Nymphs and Satyrs, the Pink Lady resolves all of the complications, so that Lucien eventually marries Angele, Bebe remains faithful to his Canadian girlfriend, and Dondidier becomes more of

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360-719: The First World War . Between In Town in 1892 and The Maid of the Mountains , premiering in 1917, this new style of musical theatre proliferated across the musical stages of Britain and the rest of the English-speaking world. The popularity of In Town and A Gaiety Girl (1893), led to an astonishing number of hits over the next three decades, into the 1920s, the most successful of which included The Shop Girl (1894), The Geisha (1896), Florodora (1899), A Chinese Honeymoon (1901), The Earl and

390-550: The "girl" musicals, the Gaiety also presented a series of what could be described as "boy" musicals, such as The Messenger Boy (1900), The Toreador (1901), The New Aladdin (1906) and Theodore and Co. (1916) . Edwardes expanded his empire to other theatres and presented slightly more complex comedy hits beginning with An Artist's Model (1895). The Geisha (1896) and San Toy (1899) each ran for more than two years and found great international success, capitalizing on

420-1062: The British craze for all things oriental. Other Edwardes hits included The Girl from Kays (1902), The Earl and the Girl (1903) and The Quaker Girl (1910). The chief glories of Edwardian musical comedies lie in their musical scores. At their best, these combined the delicacy and sophistication of operetta with the robust tunefulness of the music hall . The major composers of the genre were Sidney Jones ( The Geisha ), Ivan Caryll ( Our Miss Gibbs ), Lionel Monckton ( The Quaker Girl ), Howard Talbot ( A Chinese Honeymoon ), Leslie Stuart ( Florodora ) and Paul Rubens ( Miss Hook of Holland ). Scores were constantly refreshed with "additional" or "specialty" numbers and re-arranged, often by several different composers and lyricists, to keep audiences coming back. Important writers included Adrian Ross , Harry Greenbank , Percy Greenbank , Owen Hall , Charles H. Taylor and Oscar Asche . Generally,

450-600: The First World War. The Gaiety Theatre 's well-loved but racy burlesques were coming to the end of their popularity, and so was the phenomenally successful series of family-friendly Gilbert and Sullivan operas. These two genres had dominated the musical stage in English-speaking countries since the 1870s. A few lighter, more romantic comic operas , beginning with Dorothy (1886) found success and showed that audiences wanted something lighter than operetta, but more coherent in construction than burlesque, that featured

480-540: The Girl (1903), The Arcadians (1909), Our Miss Gibbs (1909), The Quaker Girl (1910), Betty (1914), Chu Chin Chow (1916) and The Maid of the Mountains (1917). Edwardian musical comedy began in the last decade of the Victorian era and captured the optimism, energy and good humour of the new century and the Edwardian era , as well as providing comfort to audiences seeking light entertainment during

510-449: The book, lyrics and music were each written by different people, which was a first for the musical stage, although now this is the usual way of doing things. Adrian Ross wrote the lyrics for well over 50 Edwardian musicals. Besides Edwardes, American producer Charles Frohman and actor-managers like Seymour Hicks , Robert Evett and George Grossmith, Jr. were responsible for many of these shows. The musicals were frequently built around

540-499: The brand name Pink Lady Pink Lady (cocktail) , a gin-based cocktail, popular in the United States in the 1920s and 30s Pink lady (medicine) , a drug cocktail used to treat gastroesophageal reflux Pink lady, a denaturant mixture added to discourage World War II-era US Navy submariners from drinking torpedo juice Games [ edit ] Pink Lady (card game) , a variant of Hearts and Black Lady Pink Nines ,

570-466: The link to point directly to the intended article. Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Pink_Lady&oldid=1160160962 " Category : Disambiguation pages Hidden categories: Short description is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages The Pink Lady (musical) The Pink Lady is an Edwardian musical comedy composed by Ivan Caryll , which ran for

600-575: The modern fashions and culture of the day. The father of the Edwardian musical was George "The Guv'nor" Edwardes . He took over London's Gaiety Theatre in the 1880s and, at first, improved the quality of the Gaiety Theatre's earlier burlesques. Perceiving that their time had passed, he experimented with a modern-dress, family-friendly musical theatre style, with breezy, popular songs, snappy, romantic banter, and stylish spectacle. These drew on

630-464: The musical and visual fun. These shows were immediately widely copied at other London theatres and then in America. The first Edwardian musical comedy was In Town in 1892. Its success, together with the even greater sensation of A Gaiety Girl in 1893, confirmed Edwardes on the path he was taking. These "musical comedies", as he called them, revolutionized the London stage and set the tone for

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660-411: The next three decades. According to musical theatre writer Andrew Lamb , "The British Empire and America began to fall for the appeal of the [Edwardian] musical comedy from the time when A Gaiety Girl was taken on a world tour in 1894." Edwardes' early Gaiety hits included a series of light, romantic "poor maiden loves aristocrat and wins him against all odds" shows, usually with the word "Girl" in

690-586: The position of Edwardian musical comedies in theatrical history, with operetta -singing Arcadians, representing the past, meeting with music hall -singing Londoners, representing the future. This is an example of a common feature of shows of this period: sophistication with a common touch. Florodora (1899) by Leslie Stuart and Paul Rubens made a splash on both sides of the Atlantic, as did A Chinese Honeymoon (1901), by British lyricist George Dance and American-born composer Howard Talbot , which ran for

720-621: The second act, for instance, not a musical number occurs which does not carry the plot along further, instead of halting it, and yet no songs in the piece were more persistently applauded than these." The maidens in a European village not far from Paris are frightened, but secretly thrilled, by a mysterious man called Satyr, who kisses and embraces them if they venture into the woods to pick mushrooms. Lucien, an engaged young man arrives, soon followed by his fiancée, Angele, and her idiot-savant cousin, Bebe. Lucien wishes to have one last fling with his mistress, Claudine, before he marries; he has made up

750-465: The stars of the musical of the same name Ri Chun-hee (born 1943), nicknamed "The Pink Lady", a North Korean news presenter "The Pink Lady", a smear nickname given to American politician Helen Douglas (1900–1980) by opponents to imply Communist sympathies Topics referred to by the same term [REDACTED] This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the title Pink Lady . If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change

780-655: The theatre and soon toured successfully. The show was so popular that its costume designs inspired some ladies' fashions. After a brief London run at the Globe Theatre from April 11, 1912, the musical returned to the New Amsterdam for a further 24 performances from August 26, 1912 to September 14, 1912. Unlike most Edwardian musicals, wrote the New York Times critic, the show's "fun is developed logically out of its situations, and so are its songs. In

810-416: The title role of Claudine, Hazel Dawn was nineteen years old when the show opened. She played the violin during the show. Others in the cast included Maurice Hegeman as Dr. Mazou, Alice Dovey as Angele, Florence Walton as Minette, and Ida Adams as Desirée, and the production was directed by Herbert Gresham and choreographed by Julian Mitchell . The run set the record for receipts and attendance at

840-426: The title. After A Gaiety Girl came The Shop Girl (1894), The Circus Girl (1896) and A Runaway Girl (1898) and eleven other "girl" musicals followed. The heroines were independent young women who often earned their own livings. The stories followed a familiar plot line – a chorus girl breaks into high society or a shop girl makes a good marriage to a wealthy aristocrat (who is often in disguise). There

870-514: The traditions of Savoy opera and also used elements of burlesque and of Americans Harrigan and Hart . Their plots were simple, and they included elaborate displays of contemporary fashion and settings, and lighthearted parody of modern social convention and topical issues. He replaced the bawdy women of burlesque with his "respectable" corps of dancing, singing Gaiety Girls who wore the latest fashions, and also showed off their bodies in chorus lines and bathing attire, as well as singing, to complete

900-469: Was always a misunderstanding during act one and an engagement at the end. In the words of a contemporary review, Edwardes’ musicals were "Light, bright and enjoyable." Later Gaiety Theatre "girl" musicals included The Orchid (1903), The Spring Chicken (1905), The Girls of Gottenberg (1907), Our Miss Gibbs (1909), The Sunshine Girl (1912) and The Girl on the Film (1913). Perhaps to balance

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