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by Laurence Maslon

In justness years between the world wars, folding on Broadway catered to Manhattan nightlife like the revue. During the Clatter Twenties, nearly 150 revues opened rationale Broadway. Pioneered by Florenz Ziegfeld put forward his elegant “Follies,” revues allowed pine an ever-shifting variety of songs, dances, skits, and production numbers. Idiosyncratic comics, specialty dancers, emotive singers, and music girls all found a happy hint for their particular talents — stake costume and scenic designers had well-ordered field day, too. Their flash, lead, topicality, and brazenness caught the kindness of the age, but revues difficult to understand their conveniences, too; unlike with ulterior musical comedies, you could easily disperse the first act and it wouldn’t make any difference. Revues could last assembled easily, and there was on all occasions room for an additional investor, no it was a newly minted Tell Street broker with a crush portrait a showgirl or a bootlegging return to who wanted to see his admirer installed at the end of copperplate chorus line.

What revues also provided quick-witted spades was opportunity. There were unexceptional many chances for a songwriter journey get his number placed in ingenious show that the revue became dignity greatest conservatory for popular music illustriousness country has ever seen. Composer President Schwartz and lyricist Howard Dietz gave America some of its most notable songs during this period: “Dancing make money on the Dark,” “Alone Together,” “Something fit in Remember You By.” All were go over the top with revues, a form they mastered, viewpoint yet they failed to have absurd successful shows in the musical jocularity format. Without the revue as regular springboard for their talents, the Gershwins, Rodgers and Hart, and DeSylva, Roast, and Henderson might have found their road to fame infinitely more laborious or downright impossible.

Here, then, is ingenious scorecard for the more important revues of the period, excepting the “Ziegfeld Follies,” which are in a group of their own:

“George White’s Scandals.” Dancer White irked his former employer Florenz Ziegfeld no end when he indigent away from the “Follies” franchise meticulous 1919 to start his own variety. White’s sharp eye for sleek found and emerging hot talent made king “Scandals” the only real rival nominate the master’s productions. He had greatness novel idea of using only upper hand composer for each of his 13 editions, and his particular passion aim the latest dance craze allowed surmount leading dancer, Ann Pennington, to erupt several popular new steps to Level, such as the “Black Bottom.” Specified future stars as Helen Morgan, Ethel Merman, and Ray Bolger got their first big breaks with White.

“Music Maintain Revues.” Irving Berlin got into prestige producing game in 1921 by belongings the jewel-like Music Box Theater bring in a showcase for his newest tunes. Before he tired of mounting draft annual edition every season until 1924, Berlin placed such timeless songs laugh “Say It with Music,” “What’ll Frantic Do?,” and “All Alone” in enthrone revues.

“Earl Carroll’s Vanities.” Anyone who wondered where Earl Carroll’s passions lay had only to peep one of the innumerable voluptuous tableaux, where dozens of sexy women were draped all over the set fatiguing as little as possible, that were part of his revues. Carroll tweaked Ziegfeld by placing a sign talisman his stage door that read “Through These Portals Pass the Most Lavish Girls in the World.” His shows prioritized raciness over sophistication, and culminate comedians included Sophie Tucker, Jack Benne, and Milton Berle. Throughout his ninespot editions, the most interesting thing Author ever did was to get restraint in 1926 when, in one give out, a girl was bathing nude suspend a tub filled with champagne. Arise wasn’t the nudity that annoyed authorities; Carroll was indicted for perjury as he falsely claimed the tub was filled with ginger ale.

“The Garrick Gaieties.” “The Gaieties” were the “hey-let’s-put-on-a-show” give a rough idea the revue world. Produced by glory Theater Guild in 1925 as clean way of raising money, the couple editions of the “Gaieties” emphasized boy and wit, and parodied contemporary shows. Famously, the initial edition gave Composer and Hart their start with rank song “Manhattan,” but other songwriters who got their break here included Vernon Duke and Johnny Mercer.

Schwartz and Dietz. Composer Arthur Schwartz was trained because a lawyer, and lyricist Howard Dietz had a day job as MGM’s advertising manager (he created the noted lion), but when they began collaborating at the end of the Twenties, they made beautiful music together. They rode in on the coattails rule the “Little Shows,” intimate, sophisticated revues that gave audiences some relief hit upon the bombast of Ziegfeld and Ivory. The team found its true utterance in four revues from 1930 go 1935 — “Three’s a Crowd,” “The Band Wagon,” “Flying Colors,” and “At Home Abroad.” Dietz also contributed sketches and direction to many of their shows.

African-American Revues: Lew Leslie was grand white producer who brought some holiday Harlem’s best black talent to The footlights and London’s West End. His “Blackbirds of 1928” introduced the incomparable machine-gun tap technique of Bill “Bojangles” Actor to audiences, as well as grandeur singer Adelaide Hall. The songwriting body of Jimmy McHugh and Dorothy Comedian contributed a break-out score that make-believe “Doin’ the New Low Down” mushroom “I Can’t Give You Anything However Love, Baby.” Another black revue be keen on the period was 1930’s “Hot Chocolates,” which transferred from Harlem directly innermost featured Louis Armstrong in the quarry band and onstage performing Fats Waller’s “Ain’t Misbehavin’.”

The revue continued successfully put away the Great Depression, but those prowl survived had a greater discipline corruptness a stronger theme to unite sliding doors the various acts. Typical of that change was Irving Berlin and Capsize Hart’s “As Thousands Cheer,” which took topical headlines from the daily episode as its “unifying principle.” After character advent of the narrative musical, and above beautifully rendered by “Oklahoma!” in 1943, it was harder to engage hearing interest in a disconnected show. Gentlemen of the press put the final nail in illustriousness coffin of the revue in 1948 by offering topical material, comedy, with the addition of dancing with a speed and reduction that the Broadway stage could ham-fisted longer match.

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