Life and career
Philip Henry Bartholomae was born in Chicago on July 3, 1880. [1] He graduated from the Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute prior to his career as a playwright. [2]
Bartholomae's first success in the theatre was the play Over Night which was produced on Broadway by William A. Brady. [3] It premiered at Hackett Theatre on January 2, 1911. [4] Bartholomae later adapted this play in collaboration with Guy Bolton into the hit Broadway musical Very Good Eddie (1915) which featured music by Jerome Kern. [5] Prior to this Bartholomae had penned the book and lyrics to the Broadway musicals When Dreams Come True (1913) and Miss Daisy (1914) with composer Silvio Hein. His other early stage works on the New York stage include the plays Little Miss Brown (1913) and Kiss Me Quick (1913), and the musicals Over the Top (1917), Girl o' Mine (1918), and The Greenwich Village Follies of 1919. [6]
For his 1921 musical Tangerine , Bartholomae collaborated with Guy Bolton once again to create a book out of an earlier play he had created with the playwright Lawrence Langner. [7] This was followed by the plays Personality (1921) and Barnum Was Right (1923), and his final musical, Kitty's Kisses (1926). [6] His last new stage work to appear on Broadway was the play To-Morrow (1928). [8] A Broadway revival of his musical Very Good Eddie starring Charles Repole in a Tony Award nominated performance had a long run at the Booth Theatre in 1975–1976. [9] The musical also had a long running production in the West End at the Piccadilly Theatre in 1975 starring Prue Clarke. The 1975 West End production was nominated for the Laurence Olivier Award for Best New Musical; making Bartholomae a posthumous nominee for that award. [10]
Bartholomae died on January 5, 1947, in Winnetka, Illinois. [1]
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