The Red Petticoat Explained

The Red Petticoat is a 1912 musical-comedy in 3 acts with book and lyrics by Rida Johnson Young and Paul West, music by Jerome Kern, and directed by Joseph W. Herbert. Set in the fictional town of Lost River, Nevada, the Western-genre musical starred Helen Lowell as tough lady barber Sophie Brush in the rough silver-mining town of Lost River, Nevada, who gets her man.^{[1] [2]} Songs included "I Wonder", "My Peaches and Cream", "Oh You Beautiful Spring", "The Ragtime Restaurant", and "Since the Days of Grandmamma".^[3] The musical was based on a 1911 farcical melodrama by Young titled Next!.^[4] It was Kern's first complete score.

It opened at Daly's 30th St. Theatre on 13 November 1912 and moved to the Broadway Theatre, closing on January 4, 1913, after 61 performances.^[3]

External links

• The Red Petticoat at the Internet Broadway Database

Notes and References

1. Green, Stanley (1980). "Chapter Six: Jerome Kern", The World of Musical Comedy: The Story of the American Musical Stage as Told Through the Careers of Its Foremost Composers and Lyricists, p. 54, Da Capo Press,
2. Bordman, Gerald Martin and Richard Norton (2010). American Musical Theatre: A Chronicle, p. 329 Oxford University Press
3. Hischak, Thomas S. (2013). The Jerome Kern Encyclopedia, p. 163
4. Banfield, Stephen (2006)."First Triumphs", Jerome Kern, Yale University Press