Charles Frohman (15 Juli 1856 – 7 Mei 1915) adalah seorang produser teatrikal Amerika. Frohman memproduksi drama-drama pada 1889 dan mengakuisisi teater Broadway pertamanya pada 1892. Ia memajukan dan mentenarkan beberapa bintang teater Amerika. Pada 1896, Frohman menjadi salah satu pendiri Theatrical Syndicate, yang bertumbuh menjadi pengkontrol monopoli atas industri teater AS selama hampir dua dekade. Ia juga mengambil alih Duke of York's Theatre di London, mempromosikan para pengarang drama seperti J. M. Barrie, memproduksi Peter Pan, or The Boy Who Wouldn't Grow Up karya Barrie, yang ia adakan debutnya di Duke of York's pada Desember 1904 dan ditampilkan di AS pada Januari 1905. Penampilan di Amerika dibintangi oleh pemeran kesukaan Frohman, Maude Adams. Ia bermitra dengan para produser Inggris, termasuk Seymour Hicks, yang bersama dengannya memproduksi hit-hit London sebelum 1910, yang meliputi Quality Street, The Admirable Crichton, The Catch of the Season, The Beauty of Bath, dan A Waltz Dream. Beberapa kesuksesannya di Inggris juga dialami di New York. Frohman memproduksi lebih dari 700 acara. Pada puncak kariernya, ia wafat saat RMS Lusitania tenggelam pada 1915.

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Referensi

Denison, Chuck, and Duncan Schiedt. The Great American Songbook. Bandon, Oregon, Robert D. Reed Publishers, 2004. ISBN 978-1-931741-42-2. Frohman, Daniel and Isaac Frederick Marcosson. Charles Frohman, Manager and Man (John Lane, The Bodley Head, 1916). McLean, Lorraine Arnal. Dorothy Donnelly. Jefferson, North Carolina, McFarlan, 1999. ISBN 978-0-7864-0677-7. Preston, Diana. Lusitania, An Epic Tragedy (Walker & Company, 2002). Skinner, Otis. Footlights and Spotlights (Blue Ribbon Books, 1924). Zecher, Henry. William Gillette, America’s Sherlock Holmes (Xlibris Corporation, 2011).

Bacaan tambahan

Anderson, John. The American Theatre (The Dial Press, 1938). Atkinson, Brooks. Broadway (The MacMillan Company, 1970). Bailey, Thomas A. & Paul B. Ryan. The Lusitania Disaster (The Free Press, 1975). Binns, Archie. Mrs. Fiske and the American Theatre (Crown Publishers, Inc., 1955). Bordman, Gerald. The Concise Oxford Companion to American Theatre (Oxford University Press, 1984). Burke, Billie. With a Feather on My Nose (Appleton-Century-Crofts, Inc., 1949). Churchill, Allen. The Great White Way (E. P. Dutton & Co., Inc., 1962). Frohman, Daniel. Daniel Frohman Presents, An Autobiography (Claude Kendall & Willoughby Sharp, 1935). Frohman, Daniel. Encore (Lee Furman, Inc., 1937). Hughes, Glenn. A History of the American Theatre 1700-1950 (Samuel French, 1951). Marker, Lise-Lone. David Belasco: Naturalism in the American Theatre (Princeton University Press, 1974). Morehouse, Ward. Matinee Tomorrow, Fifty Years of Our Theater (Whittlesey House, 1949). Robbins, Phyllis. The Young Maude Adams (Marshall Johns Company, 1959). Stagg, Jerry. The Brothers Shubert (Random House, 1968). Timberlake, Craig. The Bishop of Broadway (Library Publishers, 1954).

Pranala luar

Karya oleh/tentang Charles Frohman di Internet Archive (pencarian dioptimalkan untuk situs non-Beta) Charles Frohman di Internet Broadway Database Biography of Frohman at The Lusitania Resource Brief profile of Frohman Detailed profile of Frohman Production and cast lists for a number of London shows produced by Frohman Includes an anecdote about Frohman's last words and deeds on the Lusitania Frohman and Edna May Site dedicated to Charles Frohman Charles Frohman: Manager and Man di Proyek Gutenberg