Leslie Stuart
Subtitle: composer of Floradora
By: Andrew Lamb
Series: Forgotten stars of the musical theatre
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2002
Place of publication: New York; London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 295
Subjects: Stuart, Leslie, -- 1864-1928; Composers -- United States -- Biography; Dramatists -- United States -- Biography; Musical theater -- United States
Genres: Biography
Other titles: Leslie Stuart :
Description: "Leslie Stuart was a leading composer of English-language musical theater at the start of the twentieth century. His greatest musical comedy success, Floradora, was a huge hit in America and made him extremely rich. However, Stuart's subsequent extravagant spending on gambling, drinking, and entertaining, as well as his generous gifts to the needy, left him bankrupt.

This book sets out the facts of Stuart's life, from his original compositions for concert and vaudeville performers through his major hit shows. Much of this information has been extracted from newspapers and other original sources, and will amuse and inform both the theater historian and the general reader interested in the history of the musical."--BOOK JACKET.