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Revision as of 16:11, 9 October 2014
The word refers to a management position in the entertainment industry, but has also been used as the name of a TV documentary series on the theatre industry in South Africa.
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the Impresario as a personage in theatre
Definition
A director of entertainments, one who finances and directly participates in running entertainments. While apparently used of individuals in the more formal forms (ballet and opera) in Britain and Europe, the terms is more commonly applied to the person responsible for the financial and management side of popular musical and other lighter commercial forms of entertainment in South Africa.
Prominent local "impresarios" of the 20th century would include Harry Stodel and his sons, Schlesinger Bertha Slosberg, Ike Brookes, Alfred Herbert, Griffiths Motsieloa, Brian Brooke, Joan Brickhill and Louis Burke, the Quibell Brothers, Taubie Kushlick, Pieter Toerien, Richard Loring and Mbongeni Ngema.
See also Producer.
Sources
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Impresario
http://www.thefreedictionary.com/impresario
Impresario: The documentary TV series
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