1st Edition

The Collected Works of Alfred B. Sedgwick

Edited By Michael Meckna Copyright 1994

    First Published in 1994. This is volume 7 of a 16-volume series providing comprehensive set of works from a full century of musical theatre in the United States of America. The contents of this volume represent the most ubiquitous, yet probably the least well documented or described forms of musical theatre in the United States during the nineteenth century. Alfred B. Sedgwick, this volume's focus, was one of the most prolific published authors of playlets with music – especially popular with middle-class families whose ancestors had emigrated from the British Isles.

    Dualities: Leap Year (`875); My Walking Photograph (1876); The Spelling Match (1875) * Sketches: Tootle, Tootle, Too (1875); There's Millions in It (1875); the Big Banana (`875); A Gay Old Man am I (1875); Let Those Laugh Who Win (`875); A Mad Astronomer (1875); I Love Your Wife (1875); Molly Moriarty (1876); The Law Allows It (1875); The Tail of a Shark or, The Wailing (Whaling) Experiences of Sally Simpkins (1875); the Charge of the Hash Brigade (1876); The Decree of Divorce (1875) * Operettas: Estranged (1876); The Queerest Courtship; A Single Married Man; (1883) The Twin Sisters (1876); Circumstances Alter Cases (1876); Sold Again and Got the Money (1876) * Burlesques: Africanus Blue Beard (1876); Gambrinus, King of Lager Beer (1876)

    Biography

    Michael Meckna