Wy Wurrie? single work   musical theatre   revue/revusical   humour  
Issue Details: First known date: 1922... 1922 Wy Wurrie?
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Revusical.

Billed in Sydney Morning Herald advertisements as 'a score of merry men and maids and the niftiest little pony ballet that ever kicked across the footlights' (7 October 1922, p.2), the 1922 Grand Opera House 'musical comedy concotion', is described by the same paper's theatre as a series of incidents 'strung together in such a way as to produce very humorous character sketches and a great deal of clever and dexterous miming. The author's knack of adaptation in rhyme gave piquancy to the vocal pieces [and] several attractive ballet's were introduced' (9 October 1922, p.10).

Production Details

  • 1922: Grand Opera House, Sydney, 7-13 October.

    • Director Bert Le Blanc; Producer George Marlowe.
    • Troupe Bert Le Blanc's Big Revue Company.
    • Cast incl. Bert Le Blanc (Ike Cohen), Jake Mack (Morris Levi), Charles Delavale, Elvie Stagpoole, Mark Erickson, Hartley Court, Winnie Knight [aka Mrs Bert Le Blanc], Dolly McIntosh, Molly Warren, Ernest Barraclough, Fred Garland, Nell Fleming, Dulcie Melva, Tilly Dalbro, Florrie Dalbro, Dot Neville, Germaine Casier, Rene Esler, Florrie Parkes.

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First known date: 1922
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Works about this Work

Grand Opera House 1922 single work review
— Appears in: The Sydney Morning Herald , 9 October no. 26446 1922; (p. 10)
— Review of Wy Wurrie? Bert Le Blanc , 1922 single work musical theatre
Grand Opera House 1922 single work review
— Appears in: The Sydney Morning Herald , 9 October no. 26446 1922; (p. 10)
— Review of Wy Wurrie? Bert Le Blanc , 1922 single work musical theatre
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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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