Robert Ayres Barnet (September 3, 1853 – June 26, 1933) was an American musical theatre

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from New York City, active in New York and

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in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.

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Barnet wrote lyrics for ''

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'' and '' Excelsior, Jr.'' Collaborators included Robert Melville Baker,

George Whitefield Chadwick George Whitefield Chadwick (November 13, 1854 – April 4, 1931) was an American composer. Along with John Knowles Paine, Horatio Parker, Amy Beach, Arthur Foote, and Edward MacDowell, he was a representative composer of what is called the Se ...

, Edward Warren Corliss, Louis F. Gottschalk, Harry Lawson Heartz, David Kilburn Stevens, Lewis Sabin Thompson, and George Lowell Tracy. He belonged to the

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, and contributed to the group's amateur theatricals. For example, his ''Jack and the Beanstock'' premiered in 1896 at Boston's Tremont Theatre. It was performed by the "Boston Cadets, who always present Barnet's pieces before they are staged professionally. The new piece is ... a fairy Mother Goose

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. The music is by A.B. Sloane. ... Augustus Pitou,

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, E.E. Rice, and other prominent gentlemen" attended. The female impersonator

Julian Eltinge Julian Eltinge (May 14, 1881 – March 7, 1941), born William Julian Dalton, was an American stage and film actor and female impersonator. After appearing in the Boston Cadets Revue at the age of ten in feminine garb, Eltinge garnered notic ...

appeared in the early shows. Barnet died in New York in 1933.

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Burlesque Opera of Tabasco Originally performed in 1894, the ''Burlesque Opera of Tabasco'' (also sometimes rendered ''Burlesque Opera Tabasco'') is a musical comedy composed by George W. Chadwick with a libretto by R. A. Barnet. At first titled ''Tabasco'', the opera was ...

'', 1894 Image:1897 SimpleSimon Act2 Scene1 BostonCadets IllustratedAmerican v21 no368.png, Boston Cadets' production of Barnet's ''Simple Simon'', 1897 Image:1900 BugabooMan NewYorkWorld June10 NYPL p2.jpeg, "Bugaboo Man," ''

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'', 1900 Image:1900 Miladi Musketeer WhiteSmithMusicPubCo Boston.png, ''Miladi and the Musketeer'', 1901 Image:1906 MissPocahontas WhiteSmithMusicPubCo Boston.png, ''Miss Pocahontas: an Indian War-Whoop in Two Whoops'', 1906

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* New York Public Library *
I love you Evaline
words by R.A. Barnet ; music by Geo. L. Tracy; from Excelsior Jr. (Boston: Bates & Bendix, 1895) *
O lovely home
libretto by R.A. Barnet ; music by G.W. Chadwick; from Tabasco, 1894 {{DEFAULTSORT:Barnet, Robert Ayres 1853 births 1933 deaths Musicians from Boston 19th century in Boston Writers from New York City Songwriters from Massachusetts Cultural history of Boston

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