My Mountain Maid single work   musical theatre   revue/revusical   humour  
Alternative title: The Mountain Maid
Issue Details: First known date: 1926... 1926 My Mountain Maid
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Revusical.

Described as an 'alluring... picturesque and romantic revue,' this production was unlike most of the Moon and Morris Revue Company repertoire in that it was plot-driven. According to the Brisbane Courier, the story dealt largely with Spanish bandits and marauding gypsies. 'George Moon,' writes the paper's theatre critic, 'was funny as the proverbial circus as 'Tony' a sort of suburban mountaineer. Especially comical was when he confided in song to his hearers how he "hated women like 'ell," not merely because they were "blots on the landscape of life" but because they were ''slugs on the cabbage of bliss"' (2 August 1926, p.10).

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Production Details

  • 1926: Empire Theatre, Brisbane, 31 July - 6 August.

    • Director Ed. Warrington; Producer Fullers' Theatres Ltd.
    • Troupe Moon and Morris Revue Company.
    • Cast incl. George Moon (Tony), Dan Morris, Nell Fleming, Shannon Raye, Alec Kellaway (Brigand Chief), Ed. Warrington, Irene Vando, Tony O'Brien, Durham Marcel, Syd Burchell, Ena Gordon, Vera Sewell.

    1926: Fullers' Theatre, Sydney, 6-12 November (as The Mountain Maid).

    • Director Ed. Warrington; Producer Fullers' Theatres Ltd; Stage Manager Durham Marcel.
    • Troupe Moon and Morris Revue Company.
    • Cast incl. George Moon, Dan Morris, Ed. Warrington, Alec Kellaway, Nell Fleming, Durham Marcel, Vernon Sellars, Ena Gordon, Doreen May, Patsy Hill.

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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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