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Harrigan & Hart
- Presented sketches of
different ethnic figures, placed firmly in urban American setting. Helped introduce immigrants to America and America to immigrants.
- Musical comedies featured
characters & situations taken from everyday life of NYC’s lower classes (themes: jobs, recruiting, politics & voting, criminals & wrongdoing, language issues of immigrants, tenement housing, landlord-tenant disputes, social mobility)
- Ex. “Mulligan Guard”
series