The Music Went 'Round and Around
Subtitle: The Story of Musicarnival (Cleveland Theatre)
Publisher: Kent State University Press
Published: May 2004
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 148
ISBN-13: 9780873387989
Subjects: Musical theatre; Musical theater; History; Music/Songbooks; Music; Ohio; Musicarnival (Warrensville Hei; Genres & Styles - Opera; General; Cleveland; Musicarnival (Warrensville Heights, Ohio)
Description: "Spotting a trend in the early 1950s of staging summer theater in the round under tents, Clevelander John L. Price Jr. decided to give it a try. Consulting a local statistician to determine the geographical center of the culturally inclined population, the bull's-eye fell in Warrensville Heights, a Cleveland suburb that was also the home to Thistledown Race Track. Price opened his Musicarnival there, on the grounds of the race track, with a production of Oklahoma! in the summer of 1954. The Music Went 'Round and Around tells the story of this summer theater and of its ebullient founder."--BOOK JACKET.