Wang (musical)

Wang is a musical (the sheet music indicates "comic opera") with music by Woolson Morse and book and lyrics by J. Cheever Goodwin. It was first produced in New York in 1891 by DeWolf Hopper and his company and featured Della Fox.[1]

The show mixed comic opera material with burlesque and was set in Siam. The music does not have "Oriental" color, except for the title character's first entrance – on a "full scale imitation elephant" – and the wedding and coronation marches. The show was termed an "operatic burletta" because of the burlesque convention of having Fox wearing tights.[1]

  1. ^ a b Smith, Cecil Michener and Glenn Litton, Musical Comedy in America: From The Black Crook Through Sweeney Todd (London: Routledge, 1981), 55-57 ISBN 0-87830-564-5.