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The importance of opera houses to the cultural and community life in nonmetropolitan areas of the country from the last quarter of the nineteenth century to the advent of motion pictures in the 1920s has seldom been documented. The stories the reader will encounter here--related with a healthy dose of humor--are based on historical facts, anecdotes, urban legends, and tall tales associated with three of the more than one hundred opera houses that existed in Michigan during this period. As there are similar stories about similar structures throughout Michigan as well as in other Midwestern and…mehr

Produktbeschreibung
The importance of opera houses to the cultural and community life in nonmetropolitan areas of the country from the last quarter of the nineteenth century to the advent of motion pictures in the 1920s has seldom been documented. The stories the reader will encounter here--related with a healthy dose of humor--are based on historical facts, anecdotes, urban legends, and tall tales associated with three of the more than one hundred opera houses that existed in Michigan during this period. As there are similar stories about similar structures throughout Michigan as well as in other Midwestern and Western states, this could be considered a storybook about the golden age of opera houses in many of America's rural regions.
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Autorenporträt
JAMES BERTON HARRIS is Professor Emeritus in the Department of Theatre at University of Illinois at Urbana- Champaign. He has been active in both academic and professional theatre for more than forty-five years.