A note from Doug: Occassionally throughout this series I will invite other musical theater scholars with expertise in a particular show to write a few guest blog posts. This month I have invited Tracey Chessum, a Ph.D. candidate at the University of Maryland, to write about one of the topics of her dissertation: the 1898 John Philip Sousa musical, The Charlatan. As she describes below, Chessum has provided a transcri…
SOURCE: The New York Public Library at 07:47AM on September 16, 2011