The Climax

The Climax is a play in three acts by Edward Locke (1869-1945)[1], with incidental music by Joseph Carl Breil (1870 - 1926)[2].

This play has also been ascribed to both Clifford Bax (1886-1962)[3] and Paul Géraldy (1885-1983)[4] by various South African sources.

The play premiered on 12 April 1909, at Joseph W. Weber's Music Hall, New York City.[5] Revived at Weber's Music Hall, New York in May 1910. An adapted version was produced at the Bijou Theatre, New York, in 1933, opening on 13 June, now with further additional music by Rachmaninov.[6]

The sheet music for the incidental music by Joseph Carl Breil was published as Song of the Soul: From the Incidental Music to Edward Locke's Drama "The Climax"on by Chappell & Co., Ltd., New York in 1909.

Translated into Afrikaans as Die Nagtegaal ("The Nightingale") by ** in 19**.

Filmed in in 1930 and again in 1944. The latter film, a horror movie produced by Universal Pictures and first released in the United States in 1944, is claimed by the producers to have been based on the play, but there is only a tenuous relationship between the play and the film.

Produced by André Huguenet in 194* with a predominantly male cast plus a very young Sandra van der Merwe as "the voice" of the nightingale, Huguenet and Johan Nell.

Sources

Song of the Soul: From the Incidental Music to Edward Locke's Drama "The Climax" Sheet music – January 1, 1909. (Author) Song of the Soul: From the Incidental Music to Edward Locke's Drama "The Climax", Sheet music – Chappell & Co., Ltd., New York (January 1, 1909) January 1, 1909

https://www.ibdb.com/broadway-production/the-climax-9711

Filma (Kultuur), January 1946. 18.

According to a list of productions by Huguenet in the Oedipus Rex theatre programme (1956) The Climax is ascribed to French playwright Paul Géraldy (1885-1983)[7].

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