Headdress designs for Mannequin in Chu Chin Chow

Maker and role
Artist: Percy Anderson, British, 1851-1928
 Year
ca. 1918
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Media/Materials
Watercolor, graphite, and metallic paint on board
Credit line
Gift of The Tobin Endowment
Accession number
TL2002.19.7
Object type
Drawings and Watercolors
Department
Theatre Arts
Location
Not on view
Theatre production
Musical by Oscar Asche with music by Frederic Norton. Produced at His Majesty's Theatre, London, 1916. "Re-dressed" by Percy Anderson, 1918.
Further information
Puccini began work on Turandot in 1920 when Chu Chin Chow was breaking records for the longest running musical. Like Puccini's opera, Chu Chin Chow was inspired by a story from the so-called Arabian Nights, Ali-Baba and the Forty Thieves. The musical also brought together characters and costumes from the Silk Road, linking the Arabian Peninsula and China.
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