Category:Carmen (play)

Carmen (1896) is a non-musical stage adaptation of the novella by Prosper Mérimée, by Theodore Kremer.

• Presented in November 1896 at the Academy of Music in Philadelphia; more information
• From The Bennett Playbill (page 189) by Joan Bennett, Rosabel Morrison's niece:
  In November, the Carmen tour opened in the South with a first-rate company headed by the "clever and vivacious Rosabel Morrison," handsome Edward Ellsner as Don Jose, and a vigorous Escamillo played by Harold Hartsell. Advertisements were careful to inform playgoers that they were being offered a dramatic version of Carmen, not the musical one, for Bizet's opera had become a popular standard in the operatic repertory ... Carmen played successfully until the late spring of 1897 ...
• "Carmen Company Disbanded", The New York Times, March 10, 1897:
  Columbus, Ohio, March 9. — The properties of the "Carmen" company, attached in this city a few days ago at the instance of the Columbus authors of the play, were released to-day, Louis [sic] Morrison signing the bond. The company headed by Rosabel Morrison Abram disbanded as a result of the trouble and returned to New York.
• Described by one newspaper as "the Kremer dramatization of Prosper Merimee's remarkable story Carmen", and another as "an entirely new adaptation of the story by Theodore Kremer", the play continued to be performed by Morrison as late as April 1898.
• Play published in 1906, copyright by Theodore Kremer registered in 1909 and renewed January 6, 1934
• Edward J. Abram, Rosabel Morrison's first husband, managed the production, which included filmed sequences of a bullfight in the final act, shown via Eidoloscope.