Glen MacDonough, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

    

Glen MacDonough

American writer

Date of Birth: 12-Nov-1870

Place of Birth: New York City, New York, United States

Date of Death: 30-Mar-1924

Profession: writer, librettist

Nationality: United States

Zodiac Sign: Scorpio


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About Glen MacDonough

  • Glen MacDonough (1870 – March 30, 1924) was an American writer, lyricist and librettist.
  • He was the son of theater manager Thomas B.
  • MacDonough and actress/author Laura Don.
  • Glen MacDonough married Margaret Jefferson in 1896 in Buzzard's Bay, Massachusetts. MacDonough was born in Brooklyn, New York.
  • He is best-remembered today as the librettist of Victor Herbert's operetta, Babes in Toyland (1903).
  • MacDonough started out as a feature/human interest journalist in New York City, and according to one source (Atlanta Constitution, Feb.
  • 4, 1894), "...four years ago [MacDonough] was a reporter earning 15 to 20 dollars a week...but was rapidly advanced in salary and prominence.
  • In one year on the New York Advertiser, he wrote 1,008 short stories...He [then] determined to abandon journalism and turn to the drama for a livelihood..." The Prodigal Father (1892) is MacDonough's first work that received any note in reviews of the day.
  • It was a comedy with songs, a form generally called "musical extravaganzas" at the time.
  • His second work, The Algerian (1893), was a collaboration with prominent songwriter Reginald DeKoven.
  • In the 1890s he devoted much time to writing farces and comedies or the book and song lyrics to a string of musical comedies.
  • These musical comedies include Miss Dynamite (1894) and Delmonico's at 6 (1895).
  • MacDonough's name is associated with more than two dozen plays and musical works.
  • Most of them have become obscure with the passage of time, but some—besides Babes in Toyland—are worthy of mention and present certain points of historical interest.That is: He wrote the lyrics for the operetta, Chris and the Wonderful Lamp (1899), with music by march king John Philip Sousa, a work that undergoes periodic revival even today.
  • MacDonough was also one of the many lyricists called to help out in the first musical production of L.
  • Frank Baum's The Wizard of Oz (1902).
  • Between 1896 and 1909, MacDonough collaborated with Victor Herbert on four other operettas besides Babes in Toyland: The Gold Bug (1896), It Happened in Nordland (1905), Wonderland (1905), and Algeria (1908, revised in 1909 as The Rose of Algeria).
  • MacDonough was also the American adapter of Johann Strauss' last work, Vienna Life (1901), and of Franz Lehár's The Count of Luxembourg (1912).
  • In 1909 he wrote the book for The Midnight Sons.
  • He was one of the nine founding members of ASCAP in 1914. Glen MacDonough wrote continuously until the year before his death in Stamford, Connecticut, in 1924.
  • His last work was in 1923, Within Four Walls, a play.

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