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020			_a9781108487894 _q(hardback)
040			_cAE-ShPAA
050			_aPN2287 _bB35 2020
082			_a792.02/3092 _aB _223
100	1		_aBalme, Christopher B., _eauthor. _917762
245	1	4	_aThe globalization of theatre 1870-1930 : _bthe theatrical networks of Maurice E. Bandmann / _cChristopher B. Balme.
264		1	_aCambridge ; _aNew York, NY : _bCambridge University Press, _c2020.
300			_apages cm.
336			_atext _btxt _2rdacontent
337			_aunmediated _bn _2rdamedia
338			_avolume _bnc _2rdacarrier
490	0		_aCambridge studies in modern theatre
501			_aP.B
504			_aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
505	0		_aFamily 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"--
600	1	0	_aBandmann, Maurice E. _q(Maurice Edward), _d1872-1922. _917763
650		0	_aActor-network theory. _917764
650		0	_aActors _xSocial networks. _917765
650		0	_aActors _zUnited States _vBiography.
650		0	_aTheater and globalization. _91498
650		0	_aTheatrical managers _zUnited States _vBiography. _917766
650		0	_aTraveling theater _xHistory. _917767
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