Sally and Phyllis were showgirls in the Follies.

Phyllis and Sally were roommates while in the Follies, and Ben and Buddy were best friends at school in New York.

Her maternal grandparents were Millicent Green, a dancer with the George White's Scandals, a series of 1920s musical revues similar to the Ziegfeld Follies, and Johnny McAfee, a multireedist and vocalist of the big band era ; her grandparents met while touring with Johnny Hamp and his orchestra.

* Brothers Eddie and Roy Shipstad, founders of the Ice Follies, the first touring ice skating show, were summer residents of Forest Lake for much of their lives.

Teddington Studios in London, where several Thames Television dramas overseen by Lambert, such as Rock Follies, were produced in the 1970s.

They collaborated on many songs which were used in Broadway shows, including " Mr. Dooley ," sung by the title character in The Wizard of Oz, as well as the Ziegfeld Follies.

Donny & Marie ( 1976 ), The Krofft Supershow ( 1976 ), The Brady Bunch Hour ( 1977 ), The Krofft Superstar Hour ( 1978 ), Pink Lady and Jeff ( 1980 ), Barbara Mandrell and the Mandrell Sisters ( 1980 ), and their syndicated sitcom D. C. Follies ( 1987 ) were taped before live audiences, but the studios were relatively small, resulting in a small audience.

The Ziegfeld Follies were a series of elaborate theatrical productions on Broadway in New York City from 1907 through 1931.

Inspired by the Folies Bergères of Paris, the Ziegfeld Follies were conceived and mounted by Florenz Ziegfeld, reportedly at the suggestion of his then-wife, the entertainer Anna Held.

The Follies were lavish revues, something between later Broadway shows and a more elaborate high class Vaudeville variety show.

The Ziegfeld Follies were also famous for many beautiful chorus girls commonly known as Ziegfeld girls, usually wearing elaborate costumes by designers such as Erté, Lady Duff Gordon or Ben Ali Haggin.

Featuring numbers by Ray Bolger, Dennis Morgan, Virginia Bruce, and Harriet Hoctor, the film gave a glimpse into what the Follies were really like.

They were vaudeville stars and made appearances in the Ziegfeld Follies of 1918, 1919, 1920 and 1921.

His stage spectaculars, known as the Ziegfeld Follies, began with Follies of 1907, which opened on July 7, 1907, and were produced annually until 1931.

The Williams Brothers were signed by MGM to appear in Anchors Aweigh ( 1945 ) and Ziegfeld Follies ( 1945 ) but before they went before the cameras, the oldest brother Bob was drafted into military service and the groups's contract was canceled.

That first Seafair featured parades, boat races on Green Lake, amateur athletic events, royalty, community festivals like West Seattle Hi-Yu Days, Rainier District Pow-wow, Wallingford Pirate Days, the University District Kid ’ s Parade, and the Ballard Festival, and were highlighted by the nightly Aqua Follies performances.

Two albums of songs from the series were released ; Rock Follies ( 1976 ) was released on Island Records in the UK, and on Atlantic Records in the US.

Eva was brought in to star in impresario Florenz Ziegfeld, Jr .' s 1909 Ziegfeld Follies, where she replaced the husband and wife team of Jack Norworth and Nora Bayes, who were engaged in a bitter salary and personal feud with Ziegfeld himself.

Over the next couple of decades many of his songs were used in the famous Ziegfeld Follies, and were performed by the premier singers of the day, such as Eddie Cantor, Anna Held and Edith Day.

The Solent Forts-often known as " Palmerston's Follies " were built in response to a French invasion scare under Louis Napoleon III.

In 1937, Bill, Jr. was cast in an important featured role in a Monogram Tom Keene western, Romance of the Rockies, followed by a bit in the short subject, Our Gang Follies of 1938.

There was also a 1945 feature motion picture entitled Ziegfeld Follies with Fred Astaire, Judy Garland, Lena Horne, William Powell, Gene Kelly, Fanny Brice, Red Skelton, Esther Williams, Cyd Charisse, Lucille Ball, Kathryn Grayson, and others performing songs and sketches similar to those from the original Follies.

One installment, Fox Grandeur News, was released on May 26, 1929 in Fox's short-lived widescreen process Grandeur, and shown before the feature film Fox Movietone Follies of 1929.

* ( 1938 ) " Boystown ", " Broadway Serenade ", " The First Hundred Years ", " The Girl Downstairs ", " Happily Buried " ( short feature ), " The Hardys Ride High ", " Honolulu ", " Let Freedom Ring ", " Lord Jeff ", " The Magician's Daughter " ( short feature ), " Marie Antoinette ", " Nuts and Bolts " ( short feature ), " Our Gang Follies " ( short feature ), " Paradise for Three ", " Snow Gets in Your Eyes " ( short feature ), " Sweethearts ", " Three Comrades ", " The Toy Wife ", " Vacation from Love "

* ( 1938 ) Broadway Serenade, The First Hundred Years, The Girl Downstairs, Happily Buried ( short feature ), The Hardys Ride High, Honolulu, Let Freedom Ring, Lord Jeff, The Magician's Daughter ( short feature ), Marie Antoinette, Nuts and Bolts ( short feature ), Our Gang Follies ( short feature ), Paradise for Three, Snow Gets in Your Eyes ( short feature ), Sweethearts, Three Comrades, The Toy Wife, Vacation from Love

Features shot in Grandeur include Fox Movietone Follies of 1929, the musical Happy Days ( 1929 ), directed by Benjamin Stoloff, Song o ’ My Heart, ( 1930 ), a musical feature starring Irish tenor John McCormack and directed by Frank Borzage ( Seventh Heaven, A Farewell to Arms ), and the Western The Big Trail ( 1930 ), directed by Raoul Walsh, in which John Wayne played his first starring role.

* The Farm Follies is a live and animatronic interactive show describing the process of growing vegetables in a New England garden.

There, she found work in The Greenwich Village Follies after an audition in which she sang the song " Yes, We Have No Bananas ' in French.

* French Follies

Follies, landscape features and architectural structures from the 18th century can be seen around the park including the deer park and deer shelter ( recently converted by American sculptor James Turrell into an installation ), an ice house, and a camellia house.

Hawkstone Park Follies is an historic landscape park with pleasure grounds and gardens formerly belonging to Hawkstone Hall, near to Market Drayton, in Shropshire, England, UK, one mile ( 1. 6 km ) east of the A49 road.

Follies began as decorative accents on the great estates of the late 16th century and early 17th century but they flourished especially in the two centuries which followed.

Lake Station also plays host to some events such as the Fuzz Follies, which is a car show that takes place in Riverview Park every year since 1984.

His other stage appearances included musicals such as She Loves Me, Gigi ( as Gaston ), and Stephen Sondheim's Follies ( as Benjamin Stone ), for which he won another Olivier Award.

In the 1930s, many musical sequels had the year included in the title ( Gold Diggers of 1933 ), in the style of Broadway revues such as the Ziegfeld Follies.

In addition to composing about 55 full scores for stage works, Herbert produced a considerable body of musical numbers for variety shows such as the Ziegfeld Follies and the sophisticated private entertainments for the Lambs theatrical club.

She has played such roles as Mrs. Johnstone in Blood Brothers, Reno Sweeney in Anything Goes, Kate in Kiss Me, Kate, Tanya in Mamma Mia !, Phyllis in Follies, Baroness Bomburst in Chitty Chitty Bang Bang, Miss Andrew in Mary Poppins, and Mrs Sowerberry and Mrs Bedwin in Oliver!

In the summer of 1962, coinciding with the Century 21 Exposition, the Aqua Theater stage was host to a jazz festival, popular performers such as Bob Hope, two plays, and a special presentation of the Aqua Follies with 100 performers.

Born in Grand Rapids, Michigan, Goosson was an architect in Detroit before starting his film career as art director for producer Lewis J. Selznick, and films for Fox Film Corporation such as New Movietone Follies of 1930.

Following the 1932 death of Florenz Ziegfeld, the Shuberts acquired the rights to the name and format of his famed Ziegfeld Follies, and they presented the 1934 and 1936 editions of the Follies featuring performers such as Fanny Brice, Bob Hope, Josephine Baker, Gypsy Rose Lee, Eve Arden, The Nicholas Brothers, and Buddy Ebsen.

He is known for his appearances in Rock Follies and other TV series such as The Last Place on Earth, the children's series The Queen's Nose and the drama Mersey Beat and the British TV comedy series Solo, as well as numerous appearances on stage at The Royal National Theatre, The Royal Shakespeare Company and London's West End.

The Olympia was also a major venue for boxing through the International Boxing Club ( featuring such prominent fights as Jake LaMotta's defeat of Sugar Ray Robinson ) and professional wrestling, as well as other events such as the American Legion Convention of September 21 – 26, 1931 which was addressed by President Herbert Hoover, and regular visits by the Harlem Globetrotters, Ice Capades, and Shipstads and Johnson Ice Follies.

The construction of these forts was eventually found to be unnecessary and as such they have been called " Palmerston's Follies ".

There he worked on films such as: Fox Movietone Follies, Palmy Days, The Gay Divorcee and Here ’ s to Romance.

In his review of Sondheim's Follies, he wrote " ' Follies ' " is intermissionless and exhausting, an extravaganza that becomes tedious for two simple reasons: Its extravagances have nothing to do with its pebble of a plot ; and the plot, which could be wrapped up in approximately two songs, dawdles through 22 before it declares itself done ... Mr. Sondheim may be too much a man of the seventies, too present-tense sophisticated ... The effort to bind it up inhibits the crackling, open-ended, restlessly varied surges of sound he devised with such distinction for " Company '.

and has since starred in television dramas such as The Merchant of Venice ( 1973 ) opposite Laurence Olivier as Shylock, Rock Follies ( 1976 ) and Dead Head ( 1986 ).

For many years, it hosted the Ziegfeld Follies, showcasing such talents as Fanny Brice, Eaton siblings and silent film star Olive Thomas whose ghost supposedly haunts the theatre.