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revue and came
Arden's Broadway debut came in 1934, when she was cast in that year's Ziegfeld Follies revue.
Moore first came to prominence as one of the four writer-performers in the ground-breaking comedy revue Beyond the Fringe in the early 1960s, and then became famous as half of the highly popular television double-act he formed with Peter Cook.
His Broadway debut came in Beyond the Fringe, a British revue.
Trained as a physician in the late 1950s, he first came to prominence in the early 1960s with his role in the comedy revue Beyond the Fringe with fellow writers and performers Peter Cook, Dudley Moore and Alan Bennett.
In fact, the idea to produce Coal Black came to Clampett after he saw Duke Ellington's 1941 musical revue Jump for Joy, and Ellington and the cast suggested Clampett make a black musical cartoon.
Another change in tradition came during the 1941-42 academic year, when Triangle produced Ask Me Another, its first show in revue format.
In 1947 his cartoons came to life on the stage of the Globe Theatre, London, in " Between the Lines ", a scene for Laurier Lister's revue Twopence Coloured, with Max Adrian as an eccentric signalman at Friars Fidgeting Signal Box.

revue and about
From about 1900, the term género ínfimo (" degraded " or " low genre ") was coined to describe an emerging form of entertainment allied to the revista (" revue "): these were musical works similar to the género chico zarzuela but lighter and bolder in their social criticism, with scenes portraying sexual themes and many verbal double entendres.
At the first production, his staging was altered to make the work fit in with the somewhat risque nature of the revue by adding naked bodies to the rubbish, suggesting that the work was about sexual intercourse.
* The Schönauer Karneval is a high point at Carnival time in South Westphalia celebrated with, besides the Prinzenproklamation ( about 11 November ), Altweiber (“ Old Women ’ s Day ”), Prunksitzung ( a sitting of the “ Elves ’ Council ” – actually a revue ) and Rosenmontagszug (“ Shrove Monday Parade ”) also with three further events under marquees.
* The 1978 musical revue Ain't Misbehavin ' features the song " Lounging at the Waldorf " about the hotel's past as a whites-only club and hotel for high society.
If Washington, D. C. officials did not like the idea of a musical / revue about the Army, playwright Irving Berlin was ready to call it This Is the Navy, or This Is the Air Corps.
Me and Bessie is a musical revue about the life and career of blues singer Bessie Smith.
While most comic songs will only be heard within the revue they were written for, sometimes they become more widely known, such as A Transport of Delight about the big red London bus by Flanders and Swann, who first made their name in a revue titled At the Drop of a Hat.
In 1963 Levin was invited to appear regularly on BBC television's new weekly late-night satirical revue, That Was The Week That Was, where he delivered monologues to camera about his pet hates and conducted interviews, appearing as " a tiny figure taking on assorted noisy giants in debate ".
", a comedic and musical revue dedicated to those Baby Boomers everywhere who are about to enter into the golden age of Senior Citizenship.
The revue marked Kitt's Broadway debut, singing a " sultry rendition " of " Monotonous ", about how boring a life of luxury was.
Bercovici translated works from world literature: Friedrich Dürrenmatt's Frank V ( 1964 ), Karl Gutzkow's Uriel Acosta ( 1968 ), and Henrik Ibsen's The Master Builder ( 1972 ), and wrote his own Yiddish-language plays, including Der goldener fodem (" The Golden Thread ", 1963 ), about Abraham Goldfaden ( who in 1876 founded the world's first Yiddish-language theater, in Iaşi, Romania ), and the musical revue A shnirl perl (" A Pearl Necklace ", 1967 ).
White was initially enthusiastic about an idea of a black " opera " because " A recent Broadway success was Shuffle Along, a show with an all-black cast — its words and music by the black creative team of Noble Sissle and Eubie Blake ... White seems to have imagined that a black-oriented segment in the new edition of his revue would capitalize on Shuffle Along's appeal.
The Swedish text is about emigration from Sweden to the United States and was made popular by cabaret and revue artist Ernst Rolf, who had one of his first major hits with the song.
In addition to his success as a character actor in classical drama, he was known for his work as a singer and comic actor in revue and musicals, and in one-man shows about George Bernard Shaw and Gilbert and Sullivan, and in cinema and television films, notably Ken Russell's Song of Summer.

revue and due
While Bennett and Miller were already pursuing traditional careers, Cook had an agent due to his having written a West End revue for Kenneth Williams ; as a result, Cook's agent negotiated a higher weekly fee for him to participate, although by the time the agent's fee was deducted, Cook actually earned less than the others from the initial run.
Thomas attended one semester at Tennessee A & I University, but due to economic conditions left to pursue a career as a professional entertainer, joining up in 1936 with the Rabbit Foot Minstrels, an all-black revue that toured the South.
Samms is due to perform in Shall We Dance, a dance revue of musicals by Richard Rodgers.

revue and many
Sophisticated Ladies, an award-winning 1981 musical revue, incorporated many tunes from his repertoire.
" After vaudeville, the pair began work on a musical revue, Shuffle Along, which incorporated many songs they had written, and had a book written by F. E. Miller and Aubrey Lyles.
She revived old Victorian songs and ballads, many of which she retained for her performances in another revue entitled Riverside Nights.
A year later, he helped conceive the 1997 Broadway revue Dream, which starred Whiting and contained many Mercer songs.
The Maid of the Mountains was one of the three most important musical hits of the London stage during World War I ( the other two being a revue entitled The Bing Boys Are Here and the musical Chu Chin Chow, music or scenes from all of these have been included as background in many films set in this period, and they remain intensely evocative of the " Great War " years.
The song is also included in the musical revue Tom Foolery, which also includes many of Lehrer's other songs.
Among the many popular producers of revues, Florenz Ziegfeld played the greatest role in developing the classical revue through his glorification of a new theatrical " type ," " the American girl.
The lavish films, noted by many for a sustained opulence unrivaled in Hollywood until the 1950s epics, reached a breadth of audience never found by the stage revue, all while significantly underpricing the now-faltering theatrical shows.
After vaudeville, the pair began work on the musical revue, Shuffle Along, which incorporated many songs they had written, and had a book written by F. E. Miller and Aubrey Lyles.
He also allowed the theatre to be used by local companies-including the Canadian Opera Company and the National Ballet of Canada-and made the Alex the home, for many years, of the popular annual Toronto revue " Spring Thaw ".
The Mavis cast, which changed considerably over its three-year run, initially featured many imported or expatriate British performers ( Carol Raye, Gordon Chater, Miriam Karlin, Ronnie Stevens, Hazel Phillips ) alongside experienced Australian TV actors like John Bluthal ( who was becoming well known in Britain ) and Australian performers such as Salter, Creyton, Frazer, Angell, Davies, Brown and Livermore, who were relative newcomers to TV but who between them had decades of experience in music, theatre, cabaret and revue.
Having left this production upon closing in 2003, Sjöholm took part in Chinarevyn, a revue starring many well-known Swedish performers including Magnus Härenstam, Lasse Berghagen, Loa Falkman, Sissela Kyle and herself.
Later in the song, a " rhythm revue " describes the old style R & B show with many featured artists appearing on one bill in front of a big band.
He began in stage revue and wrote many skits and gags for the satirical comedy series The Mavis Bramston Show, before joining the cast as a regular member in 1966, in various roles including the character Ocker and Frazer is credited with neologising the Australian slang term " ocker ".

revue and for
The story concerns a reunion in a crumbling Broadway theatre, scheduled for demolition, of the past performers of the " Weismann's Follies ," a musical revue ( based on the Ziegfeld Follies ), that played in that theatre between the World Wars.
In 1939, he was selected to be part of a musical revue " One for the Money " produced by the actress Katharine Cornell, who was known for finding and hiring talented young actors.
Brown employed between 40 and 50 people for the James Brown Revue, and members of the revue traveled with him in a bus to cities and towns all over the country, performing upwards of 330 shows a year with almost all of the shows as one-nighters.
He also wrote the lyrics for the 1952 revue Two's Company.
The partnership went on to produce these and other Broadway musicals such as Allegro, Me & Juliet, Pipe Dream, Flower Drum Song, and The Sound of Music, as well as the musical film State Fair ( and its stage adaptation of the same name ), and the television musical Cinderella, all featured in the revue A Grand Night for Singing.
Whilst still at university, Cook wrote for Kenneth Williams, for whom he created an entire West End comedy revue called One Over the Eight, before finding prominence in his own right in a four-man group satirical stage show, Beyond the Fringe, with Jonathan Miller, Alan Bennett and Dudley Moore.
In 1966, he semi-anonymously provided the lyric for " The Boy From ...", a parody of " The Girl from Ipanema ", a highlight of the off-Broadway revue The Mad Show.
*** Off-Broadway – professional venue in New York City with a seating capacity between 100 and 499, and for a specific production of a play, musical or revue.
For instance, George Gershwin's Rhapsody in Blue was never featured in the Follies, and the number " Pretty Girl " was written for the 1919 Follies, not the first edition of the revue, as shown in the film.
In 1918 and after the war, Novello continued to write successfully for musical comedy and revue.
Novello returned to composing for the lyric stage in 1929, writing eight numbers for the revue The House that Jack Built.
He is most popularly known for his 1960s work with his then wife Tina Turner in the Ike & Tina Turner revue.
The First 5, 000 Years ( 1982 ) – revue – featured songwriter for Mrs. Robinson
* A Grand Night for Singing ( 1993 ), Rodgers and Hammerstein revue musical
During their four-year partnership, they wrote five comedies – Dulcy ( 1921 ), To the Ladies ( 1922 ), Merton of the Movies ( 1922 ), The Deep Tangled Wildwood ( 1923 ) and Beggar on Horseback ( 1924 ) – and also co-directed and contributed sketches to the 1922 revue The ' 49ers, collaborated on the book to the musical comedy Helen of Troy, New York ( 1923 ), and wrote both the book and lyrics for another musical comedy, Be Yourself ( 1924 ).
As Jimmie Baskette, he appeared on Broadway with Louis Armstrong in the all-black musical revue Hot Chocolates in 1929, and was announced for Hummin ' Sam in 1933, although it failed to open.
One day on the train to Paris for a violin lesson, she met Saint-Marcel, who directed the revue at the Casino de Paris.
He tells them to come to rehearsal for Zanfield ’ s revue to present their act.
During dress rehearsal for the revue Zanfield says the pacing is too slow forThe Broadway Melody ” and cuts Hank and Queenie from the number.

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