Julian Mitchell

b. 1854, d. 24 June 1926, Long Branch, New Jersey, USA. Although Mitchell started out as a dancer in the chorus, the onset of deafness meant that he was unable to continue with his craft. Instead, he turned his love for and skill at dance to choreography and direction. In the latter capacity, he used assistants for matters relating to dialogue and songs and concentrated on the visual aspects of the shows on which he worked. An early success was A Trip To Chinatown (1891). His high-quality productions, and in particular his sweeping use of movement, allied to his insistence on ...