Leslie Stuart: Composer of Florodora

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Series Introduction
1. Irish Ancestry, Lancashire Boyhood
2. Early Career
3. Expanding Horizons
4. Concert Promoter and Song Composer
5. Leslie Stuart - Popular Songwriter
6. Eugene Stratton and Musical Piracy
7. Floradora
8. From West End to Broadway
9. The Silver Slipper
10. Across America
11. The School Girl
12. Fruits of Success
13. The Belle of Mayfair
14. Havana
15. Captain Kidd and The Slim Princess
16. Peggy, Bankruptcy, and Bubbles
17. World War I, America, and Nina
18. Death and Legacy

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Leslie Stuart (1864-1928) was a British songwriter best remembered as the composer of the hit show, Florodora. He began writing popular songs as a teenager, first for blackface and vaudeville performers, and eventually for more "legitimate" shows and revues. Florodora (1899), written in collaboration with London's most fashionable librettist, Owen Hall, was a musical-comedy sensation. Its combination of the traditional slow love ballads and waltzes with more rhythmic and long-lined numbers made it a worldwide success. He continued to compose through the first decade of the 20th century, laying the groundwork for the coming innovations in British and American musical theater.

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