Glen MacDonough

b. 12 November 1870, Stamford, Connecticut, USA, d. 30 March 1924, Stamford, Connecticut, USA. A mentioned songwriter and librettist from the past due nineteenth and early twentieth generations, MacDonough’s first functions created for the stage had been plays, including Sister Mary (1899), Chris And THE BEAUTIFUL Lamp (1900) as well as the Belle Of Bridgeport (1900). Then wrote lyrics to get a creation of Vienna Existence (1901) and adopted this using the publication for the musical humor THE BRAND NEW Yorkers (1901). After another play, Among Those Present (1902), arrived the work where MacDonough remains greatest remembered today. This is Babes In Toyland (1903), that he had written the publication lyrics, the music becoming made up by Victor Herbert. Even though the show had just a short operate of 192 shows it captured imaginations and was revived on many events between 1905 and 1930. In 1934 it became a film starring Laurel And Hardy, was reprised as an bout of tv’s Musical Humor Period (1950) and Disneyland (1954), the second option subsequently shown often under different game titles, and in addition in 1961 and 1986. Among the Herbert and MacDonough tracks from the display are ‘Floretta’, ‘I Can’t Perform The Amount’, ‘Slumber Deep’, ‘Our Castle In Spain’, ‘Rock-a-bye Baby’, ‘My Rag Doll Young lady’, ‘An Old-Fashioned Rose’, ‘Before And After’ and ‘Probably The Moon CAN HELP YOU Out’. After another play, Parrot Middle (1904), MacDonough came back to musicals composing reserve and lyrics for this Occurred In Nordland (1904), the reserve for Wonderland (1905) as well as the Midnight Sons, reserve and lyrics for The Rose Of Algeria (both 1909), the reserve for The Jolly Bachelors and THE SUMMERTIME Widowers (both 1910), The Hen-Pecks as well as the Hardly ever Homes (both 1911), The Count number Of Luxembourg and Eva (both 1912), reserve and lyrics for The Queen Of THE FILMS (1914), the reserve for Fads And Fancies (1915), and reserve and lyrics for the revue Hitchy-Koo (1917) as well as the musical The Kiss Burglar (1918). His last Broadway function was the play Within Four Wall space (1923). A regular collaborator of MacDonough’s was lyricist Anne Caldwell with whom he composed dozens of music and musical sketches, including ‘Moon Of Appreciate’, ‘By The Ocean’, ‘Canjoharie’, ‘Raggedy Ann’ and ‘Bring ’Em Back again’. In 1980 the Broadway revue Tintypes highlighted a few of MacDonough’s music. He was among the founders of ASCAP (the American Culture of Composers, Writers and Web publishers).