Word: footlights
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Timilty is turning red and blue and yellow. He's standing on the ground floor of the Footlight Club and there are "Timilty for Mayor" signs in front of the discolights. The music is very loud--as are the costumes. And as he stands next to some huge guy in a massive sombrero. Timilty looks decidedly uncomfortable. A young woman dressed up as Mr. Bill from Saturday Night Live screeches up to the candidate and asks to take his picture. Her friend, in a President Carter costume, stands next to Timilty and the mask grins like an idiot. Timilty grins...
...public's fascination with theatrical life, and with the disparity between onstage glamour and backstage heartache. The musical portrayal of stage life would, with the immediate advent of sound movies, be taken up in a host of Hollywood films such as The Singing Fool, Show of Shows, Hollywood Revue, Footlight Parade, Forty-Second Street, the Broadway Melody series, and the Gold Diggers series...
Dandied Breed. The second part features Patricia McBride and Jean-Pierre Bonnefous as a couple of turn-of-the-century footlight entertainers who dance to old music-hall songs. Their act is based on the antics of a dandied breed of street hawkers known as costermongers (after the costard apple). It is frail, bathetic stuff, yet touching for the loneliness Balanchine suggests...
...1940s (the Gold Diggers series, 42nd Street); of heart disease; in Palm Springs, Calif. Drillmaster Berkeley's average cast of 100 chorines rode decoratively in Ferris wheels, bowed neon-lighted violins while they whirled in triple-hooped skirts, played acres of white pianos for 100 top-hatted swains. Footlight Parade featured the precision swimming and diving of 150 movie mermaids, filmed from a plate-glass corridor underneath the mammoth pool, all of which cost $10,000 per screen minute. The nostalgia wave of the early '70s brought Berkeley back to Broadway to supervise the production...
Thru Sat.: The Roaring Twenties, 4, 7:35 and Footlight Parade, 5:50, 9:30 and Pink Flamingos, midnight...