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...Lady," "Can-Can!") and Harold Arlen ("St. Louis Woman," "Bloomer Girl," "House of Flowers") each had three musicals revived, George Gershwin two ("Strike Up the Band," "Pardon My English"). His brother Ira did the lyrics for those and for two other Encores! specials ("Lady in the Dark," "Ziegfeld Follies of 1936"). Jerome Kern ("Sweet Adeline") and Irving Berlin ("Call Me Madam") complete the honor roll of indisputable Broadway royalty...
...Supper" trio (Gravitte, Luker and Sarah Uriarte Berry) from "The Boys from Syracuse"... Kuhn, an angel lost in hell, turning a 2684-seat theater into a confessional when she performs "The Man I Love" from "Strike Up the Band"... Ruthie Henshell, beautifully torching the ballad "Words Without Music" from "Ziegfeld Follies of 1936"... The second-act overture to "Babes in Arms," when the orchestra began playing "Where or When" and the audience joined in, dreamily humming along and swaying in unison... The chorale rendition of "Stout-Hearted Men" from "New Moon," which had the crowd stomping and singing along... Another...
...decade before World War I, the ante was raised once more, by Florenz Ziegfeld, whose sumptuous follies--fast-paced revues with comics, singers and chorines--became the gold standard of naughty, but not quite vulgar, spectacle: shows where young women might change clothes behind translucent screens while a winking crooner sang I'd Like to See More of You. By the '20s, the culture of Times Square hit its stride. The world of the stage spectaculars converged with the new nightclub society that Prohibition did little to discourage. The evolution of Broadway theater brought forward Eugene O'Neill, George...
...Nell Brinkley, who became a national sensation for her depiction of lushly-curled 1920's women, returns from relative obscurity thanks to Robbins. Brinkley became popular enough to warrant a licensing deal for hair products, and inspire a "Nell Brinkley" girl in the Ziegfeld Follies. Lushly illustrated, the book makes a convincing case for her, and other's, influence on the genre. After the care-free "flapper" strips of the 1920s, depression-era women cartoonists depicted mostly dimple-cheeked urchins, and their grannies, including "Mary Worth," created by Dale Conner...
...miss her genuinely funny Ziegfeld Follies-esque version of Born Free