4/16 In Music Theater History
On this day in 1906 John Phillip Sousa’s “The Free Lance” (35p) opens for a short run at the New Amsterdam Theater. Harry B Smith writes the lyrics and as always Sousa fashions a march from songs in the Operetta. On this day in 1952 a revival of the Vergil Thompson/Gertrude Stein opera “Four Saints... Sign in to see full entry.