| 词条 | Lola Montez (musical) |
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|name = Lola Montez |subtitle = |image = Lola_Montez_original_cast_recording.png |image size = |caption = Original cast recording |music = Peter Stannard |lyrics = Peter Benjamin |book = Alan Burke |basis = |premiere_date = |premiere_location = |productions = 1958 Melbourne 1958 Brisbane/Sydney |awards = }} Lola Montez is a 1958 Australian musical. It was written by Alan Burke, Peter Stannard and Peter Benjamin and focuses on four days of Lola Montez visiting the Ballarat Goldfields. BackgroundStannard, Benjamin and Burke were all friends from university who wanted to write a musical together. Alan Burke says he had never heard of Lola Montez until he heard her mentioned in a program on the ABC. He was attracted to the subject because it was Australian but had international appeal - he did not want to make something along the lines of On Our Selection. Also, since the lead was a performer, the songs would come naturally.[1] ProductionsOriginal productionHugh Hunt of the Australian Elizabethan Theatre Trust heard several auditions of the work and agreed to fund a trial production at the Union Theatre Repertory Company in Melbourne in early 1958. It was directed by John Sumner. The production was very popular. Cast
Australian Elizabethan Theatre Trust productionThe Trust took up their option and launched a professional production. George Carden was brought in to direct.[2][2] Alan Burke says his dream Lola was Vivien Leigh but that he wanted Moyra Fraser to star.[1] Hugh Hunt wanted a star so they imported 25 year old Mary Preston from the United Kingdom to play the lead.[3] Burke said Preston was hopelessly miscast playing a 37 year old aging beauty.[1] The show trialled in Brisbane for a short season. Michael Cole, who was playing Daniel, was sacked in Brisbane because of his voice. He was replaced by Eric Thornton who Burke said was too old - a 45 year old man playing a 19 year old. The play moved to Sydney where it opened on 22 October 1958. Burke says it lost £30,000 and "was a show loved by very few people but it went into legend."[1] However the show did run for more than three months.[4] Michael Cole's single recording of "Saturday Girl" became a minor hit.[2] Cast
1962 TV Play{{Infobox film| name = Lola Montez | image = | border = | alt = | caption = | director = Alan Burke | producer = | writer = Alan Burke | screenplay = | story = | based on = | starring = Brigid Lenihan | music = | cinematography = | editing = | studio = ABC | distributor = | released =7 May 1962 (Sydney)[5] | runtime = 90 mins | country = Australia | language = English | budget = | gross = }} Lola Montez was adapted for TV by the ABC in 1962.[6] The TV production was directed by Alan Burke, who had written the book for the musical. Cast
ProductionBurke says because he directed, things were not misunderstood. Johnny Rohan was cast as Daniel after Burke saw him singing on a pop show.[1] It was filmed in the ABC's Southbank Studios in Melbourne. Choreography was by Rex Reid, and Mary Duchesne danced the Lola in the Bavaria sequence. The dance ensemble included Kelvin Coe and Barry Moreland. [2][7] ReceptionThe Sydney Morning Herald thought the character of Lola remained "the most intractable fact" of the production thinking she was better used to "material for a sensitive play which hardly in with the lusty, simplicity of a musical that sounds like a marriage of Oklahoma and Paint Your Wagon... All the same, it was interesting to have the chance of seeing again a. musical that promised so much for the talents that combined to devise it; and also a little saddening to think how little has been heard of these talents since."[8] The Sunday Herald said "it was a brilliant piece of work, sizzling in pace from start to finish, with a cast and chorus as perfectly rehearsed and drilled as an Army platoon. "Lola Montez" was good on stage; it emerges on television even better; almost as though it had been originally written with the small screen in mind. The only flaw in the entire 90 minutes so far as I was concerned, and it was a minor one, was [the]... dream sequence flashback to Lola's days as a court beauty. It was competently done, but it dragged a little toward the end."[9] Revised EditionThe musical has been much revived since in amateur and school productions.[10] The musical was heavily revised in 1988 for a production in Canberra.[2][11][12] See also
References1. ^1 2 3 4 {{cite website|url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.obj-216544746/listen|title=Alan Burke interviewed by Bill Stephens in the Esso Performing Arts collection|website=National Library of Australia}} 2. ^1 2 3 {{cite web|url=http://www.janusentertainment.com.au/project.php?project_id=146 |title=Lola Montez the musical|website=Janus Entertainment}} 3. ^{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article46241233 |title=English star is "Lola Montez" |newspaper=The Australian Women's Weekly |volume=26, |issue=21 |location=Australia, Australia |date=29 October 1958 |accessdate=9 April 2016 |page=39 |via=National Library of Australia}} 4. ^1 Alan Burke obituary at Sydney Morning Herald 5. ^TV Guide May 7 Sydney Morning Herald 1962 6. ^[https://www.ausstage.edu.au/pages/event/106251 1962 TV adaptation] at Ausstage 7. ^{{cite news|newspaper=Sydney Morning Herald|date= April 23, 1962|title=Lola Montez for Sydney|page=14}} 8. ^{{cite news|newspaper=Sydney Morning Herald|title="Lola Montez" Televised|date=May 8, 1962|page=10}} 9. ^{{cite news|newspaper=Sydney Morning Herald|date=May 13, 1962|title=TV Merry Go Round|page=102}} 10. ^Lola Montez at David Spicer Productions 11. ^{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article110617537 |title=Arts and entertainment Lola Montez inspired Australian musical |newspaper=The Canberra Times |volume=63, |issue=19,411 |location=Australian Capital Territory, Australia |date=28 November 1988 |accessdate=27 May 2018 |page=17 |via=National Library of Australia}} 12. ^{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article102035926 |title=Goldfield spirit in light, bright 'Lola' |newspaper=The Canberra Times |volume=63, |issue=19,418 |location=Australian Capital Territory, Australia |date=5 December 1988 |accessdate=27 May 2018 |page=20 |via=National Library of Australia}} External links
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