Do it Now single work   musical theatre   revue/revusical   humour  
Issue Details: First known date: 1918... 1918 Do it Now
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Revusical.

Described in the Brisbane Courier as a 'burlesque revue', Do it Now is:

The first episode in a story which is revealed more full in the sequel Get the Habit. The revusical's setting is in the stockbroking office of Will Cheatem, with Ike Cohen (Bert Le Blanc) and Morris Levi (Jake Mack) as unsuspecting speculators who soon learn that stockbroking is the art of buying stock that doesn't exist with money you don't possess and selling it for more than it cost (11 November 1918, p.5).

Production Details

  • 1918: Empire Theatre, Brisbane, 9-15 November.

    • Director Bert Le Blanc; Producer Fullers' Theatres Ltd.
    • Troupe Bert Le Blanc's Musical Travesty Stars.
    • Cast incl. Bert Le Blanc (Ike Cohen), Jake Mack (Morris Levi), Mike Connors, Queenie Paul, Lillian Colenzo, Winnie Knight [aka Mrs Bert Le Blanc], Lance Vane, Will Raynor; and the Pony Ballet (Violet Penson, Rita Penson, Vera Tandy, Rose Brennan, Hilda Lynn, Annie Henry).

    1919: Fullers National Theatre, Sydney, 8-14 March.

    • Director Bert Le Blanc; Producer Fullers' Theatres Ltd.
    • Troupe Bert Le Blanc Revue Company.
    • Cast incl. Bert Le Blanc, Jake Mack, Jim Gerald (A. Long Reach), Essie Jennings, Lance Vane (Russian anarchist), Queenie Paul (Cassia Roland), Mike Connors (Will Cheatem, the lover), Winnie Knight [aka Mrs Bert Le Blanc], D'Arcy Kellway, Neville Royal, Lillian Colenzo, Nellie Fallon; and the Pony Ballet (Lucy Cliff, Annie Henry, Hilda Lynn, Rosie Downie, Thelma Gourlay, Bertha Bush, Alma Hilson, Alice Lewis, Vera Tandy, Essie Davis).

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First known date: 1918
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Get the Habit Bert Le Blanc , Bert Le Blanc's Travesty Stars , Fullers' Theatres , 1918 single work musical theatre revue/revusical humour

Revusical.

Little is known about this sequel to Le Blanc's Do it Now revusical. The Brisbane Courier records that Get the Habit was produced for the first time in Australia during the 1918 Empire Theatre season. No other revivals have been located to this date and the only insight provided in reviews during the week of 23-29 November is the following: 'Its action will disclose what a crazy Russian Nihilist did with certain missing stock certificates' (23 November 1918, p.12).
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Works about this Work

The Empire Theatre 1918 single work review
— Appears in: The Brisbane Courier , 11 November 1918; (p. 5)
— Review of Do it Now Bert Le Blanc , 1918 single work musical theatre
The Month in Vaudeville X-Ray , 1918 single work review
— Appears in: The Theatre Magazine , April 1918; (p. 27)
— Review of Do it Now Bert Le Blanc , 1918 single work musical theatre
Fullers' New Theatre : Successful Opening 1918 single work review
— Appears in: The Sydney Morning Herald , 10 March 1918; (p. 5)
— Review of Do it Now Bert Le Blanc , 1918 single work musical theatre
Fullers' New Theatre : Successful Opening 1918 single work review
— Appears in: The Sydney Morning Herald , 10 March 1918; (p. 5)
— Review of Do it Now Bert Le Blanc , 1918 single work musical theatre
The Month in Vaudeville X-Ray , 1918 single work review
— Appears in: The Theatre Magazine , April 1918; (p. 27)
— Review of Do it Now Bert Le Blanc , 1918 single work musical theatre
The Empire Theatre 1918 single work review
— Appears in: The Brisbane Courier , 11 November 1918; (p. 5)
— Review of Do it Now Bert Le Blanc , 1918 single work musical theatre
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Note:
This entry has been sourced from research undertaken by Dr Clay Djubal into Australian-written popular music theatre (ca. 1850-1930). See also the Australian Variety Theatre Archive
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