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Pat Craig talks with the playwright.

 

 

 

REVIEWS!

FROM THE CRITICS

"...a delightful...historically accurate story that really is a must-see for anyone living in the Bay Area, or anyone with the slightest interest in getting an idea of how San Francisco evolved into what it is today..."

Contra Costa Times

"...sweetly upbeat and crammed with enlightening local trivia..."

San Franciso Chronicle

"Editor's Pick," January 2007

"...a hilarious tribute to Norton, San Francisco and all its eccentricities...any San Francisco enthusiast would be crazy to miss this show."

Theatre Bay Area Magazine

"Ohannesson's book rambunctiously captures the frontier, anything-goes spirit of post-Gold Rush San Francisco. Axelrod's evocative score...combines a honkey-tonk, piano-bar feel... with arias alternately indebted to Gilbert & Sullivan and Lloyd-Webber & Rice."

SF Weekly

"...good humoured and heartwearming... a colorful portrait of a post-Barbary Coast city where anything and everyhting goes..."

KQED Arts & Culture Blog

FROM THE AUDIENCE

"Herb Caen would have loved this show!"

Maggie King
R.N.P.

"Emperor Norton the Musical is one ot the best plays I've ever seen."

Officer James Jarvis
Saloon Historian Yerba Buena Number One
Ancient and Honorable Order of E Clampus Vitus
San Francisco, CA





 

 

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Emperor Norton and the dogs, Bummer and Lazarus

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The Galloping Cow, the Little Lost Chicken and the Dancing Heiffer

EMPEROR NORTON POSTER


Emperor Norton the Musical
is the “crowning event” in
“A Day with Emperor Norton”
in the January 2007 issue of
Westways Magazine.
Click here to spend a day by the Bay with the Emp!

Norton's Cabaret: An Evening of Fun and Frolic at the Bella Union Melodeon

Read about "Norton's Caberet", the fundraiser for Emperor Norton, the Musical, in the SF Chronicle

EMPEROR NORTON
the MUSICAL
was first presented
at The Dark Room
December 2, 2005 through February 13, 2006
See reviews below

Bay Area Guardian
SF Bay Times
Bay Area Reporter

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FARLEY by Phil Frank

SPECIAL THANKS TO



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"There have been other Emperors in the history of this world of ours who have been out of their minds--their reigns were marked by violence and atrocity...But ours was as none of these. CHARITY TOWARDS ALL AND LOVING KINDNESS WERE IN HIS HEART."

Ernest A. Wiltsee
President, The Emperor Norton Memorial Association
June 30, 1934


NORTON RESOURCES:

Encyclopedia of San Francisco

SF History Index

The Virtual Museum of the City of

San Francisco

Mr. San Francisco


The Imperial Government of Norton I

Everything2

Farley Comic


EmperorNorton.net

The Chronicle Obituary

Wikipedia

Rename the Bridge!

Cafe Press T-Shirts!

PBS

Excerpt from the Principia Discordia

The Widow Norton

Article from American History Magazine

Rotten.com

The SF Imperial Court

Chronicle of the Old West


FindAGrave.com

Peter's Page

The Record Company
(no relation)