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Joe´s Music Rack George H. Broderick |
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George H. Broderick
Speaker and Bass Vocal
Born Philadelphia, PA - May 6, 1855
Died Aurora, IL, - May 10, 1905 aged 49
George Broderick´s lone engagement with the D´Oyly Carte was on tour with Carte´s Third American
Ruddygore Company in New York and New England in 1887. He appeared first as Sir Roderick in April of that year,
but by May 4 had shifted to Sir Despard. Broderick was married to contralto Emma Baker, who appeared as Dame Hannah
in the same production. Among his earlier roles on tour was Zapeter in Gilbert & Clay´s Princess Toto
(Chicago Museum, May 1884).This was not, however, his first venture into Gilbert & Sullivan, nor would it be his last. He was Pish-Tush in Sydney Rosenfeld´s much-maligned pirate production of The Mikado that played briefly at New York´s Union Square Theatre on July 20, 1885, nearly a month before the arrival of the D´Oyly Carte. Only one performance was given in violation of a temporary injunction. The cast was brought back on August 17, just two days before the Carte Mikado opening, but lasted just two weeks at the Union Square before shifting to the Grand Opera House in Brooklyn. Mr. Broderick later played Pooh-Bah with the Templeton Opera Company in various New York area theatres between December 1885 and March 1886.
On February 25, 1888 George H. Broderick stared in AIDA, presented by the National Opera Season. Also starring; Clara Poole and Charlotte Walker. Then from June 4 through June 9, 1888 doing the THE MIKADO by Gilbert and Sullivan. Presented as part of the Summer Opera Season by the Grau Opera Comique Company, managed by E.G. Stone. Also starring N.S. Burnham, C.J. Campbell.
In October 1888, he appeared as the Lieutenant of the Tower in the first New York production, sanctioned by D´Oyly Carte, of The Yeomen of the Guard at the Casino Theatre with Rudolph Aronson´s Company, and later played the role in other American cities when Aronson took the production on tour in 1889.
In January 1893, he appeared again in New York as Elvino in Gilbert and Cellier´s The Mountebanks, in a cast that included Lillian Russell.
I did find an ad dated August 7, 1895 in The San Francisco Call, stating the George H. Borderick, with Laura Millard, Alice Gable, Martin Packe, John T. Raffael, and W. H. West were going to appear at the Tivoli Opera House, for one week only, doing Flowtow´s Lyric Opera of "MARTHA".
In 1900 Broderick made numerous recordings, both musical and recitation, for the leading recording companies in New York. While they included many songs from opera, his only Sullivan recording appears to have been "The Absent Minded Beggar." His recording career ended abruptly at the end of the year when he and his wife moved to Illinois. Broderick continued to appear on stage, however, and also sang as a soloist at Christ Episcopal Church in Chicago. He was the uncle of Helen Broderick, a well-known film actress. Helen Broderick's son was Broderick Crawford, himself a popular television and film actor, perhaps best remembered for the TV series "Highway Patrol."
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| Victor Pre-matrix A-1 | June 28, 1900 | Departure | George Broderick | Recitation |
| Victor Pre-matrix A-3 | June 28, 1900 | The Birth of Saint Patrick | George Broderick | Recitation |
| Victor Pre-matrix A-4 | June 28, 1900 | Fuzzy-Wuzzy | George Broderick | Recitation |
| Victor Pre-matrix A-5 | June 28, 1900 | On The Road To Mandalay | George Broderick | Recitation |
| Victor Pre-matrix A-6 | June 28, 1900 | Danny Deever | George Broderick | Recitation |
| Victor Pre-matrix A-7 | June 28, 1900 | Limburger Cheese | George Broderick | Recitation |
| Victor Pre-matrix A-66 | June 8, 1900 | Father O´Flynn | George Broderick | Male vocal solo |
| Victor Pre-matrix A-67 | June 8, 1900 | King Sol | George Broderick | Male vocal solo |
| Victor Pre-matrix A-69 | June 9, 1900 | Faust - Mephisto´s Serenade | George Broderick | Male vocal solo |
| Victor Pre-matrix A-70 | June 9, 1900 | Simon The Cellarer | George Broderick | Male vocal solo |
| Victor Pre-matrix A-73 | June 9, 1900 | The Magic Flute He Who Treads The Path Of Duty [Zauberflöte - In Diesen heil´gen Hallen] | George Broderick | Male vocal solo |
| Victor Pre-matrix A-75 | June 9, 1900 | Rocked In The Cradle Of The Deep | George Broderick | Male vocal solo |
| Victor Pre-matrix A-76 | June 9, 1900 | Rob Roy - The Turnkey´s Song | George Broderick | Male vocal solo |
| Victor Pre-matrix A-77 | June 9, 1900 | The Yarn Of The Dates | George Broderick | Male vocal solo |
| Victor Pre-matrix A-79 | June 9, 1900 | Deep, Down Deep | George Broderick | Male vocal solo |
| Victor Pre-matrix A-80 | June 9, 1900 | Thy Sentinel Am I | George Broderick | Male vocal solo |
| Victor Pre-matrix A-81 | June 9, 1900 | The Absent-Minded Beggar | George Broderick | Male vocal solo |
| Victor Pre-matrix A-139 | May 1, 1900 | Friar of Orders Grey | George Broderick | Recitation |
| Victor Pre-matrix A-141 | May 1, 1900 | Robin Hood - The Armorer´s Song | George Broderick | Male vocal solo |
Source:
victor.library.ucsb.edu
boisestate.edu
webapp1.dlib.indiana.edu
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