From Buffalo to burlesque -- Burlesque to Broadway -- "Come to Sherwood; join our jolly crew" -- "Am I a Wiz?" -- "I'd like to have a photograph of that" -- "If I only had a theatre on Broadway" -- Follies of the year -- German imports -- Jerome Kern and Irving Berlin -- "Harry-B-Smithing" -- "A long walk uphill against the wind."
Summary
Harry B. Smith was the most prolific writer for the American musical theatre in history, working with every major American composer between 1880 and 1920. This examination of his work is thus highly instructive of the history of the American musical
