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A Marvelous Party A MARVELOUS PARTY SONG LIST ACT ONE "Together with Music" "London is a Little Bit of Alright" "London Pride" "Any Little Fish" "Chase Me Charlie" "What Ho! Mrs. Brisket" "Would You Like to Stick a Pin in My Balloon?" "Has Anybody Seen Our Ship?" "Matelot" "I Like America" "Mad Dogs and Englishmen" "Mrs. Wentworth-Brewster" "The Coconut Girl" "Welcome to Pootzie Van Doyle" "Paddy Macneil and his Automobile" "Swing Song" "Lilies of the Valley" "The Walla Walla Boola" "Mrs. Worthington" ACT TWO Entr'acte "Mad About the Boy" "I've Been to a Marvelous Party" "Why Do the Wrong People Travel?" "Sail Away" "There Are Bad Times Just Around the Corner" "A Room with a View"/"Dance Little Lady" "Someday I'll Find You" "I'll Follow My Secret Heart" "If Love Were All" "Nina" "Let's Do It" "The Party's Over"/"I'll See You Again" -4-
-5- A Marvelous Party A revue is a type of multi-act popular theatrical entertainment that combines music, dance and sketches. The revue has its roots in nineteenth-century American popular entertainment and melodrama, but grew into a substantial cultural presence of its own during its golden years from ca. 1916-1932. Though most famous for their visual spectacle, revues frequently satirized contemporary figures, news, or literature. Golden Age The Shubert Theatre in New York, home of the Ziegfeld Follies circa 1919. WHAT IS A REVUE? Revues enjoyed great success on Broadway from the World War I years until the Great Depression, when the stock market crash forced many revues from cavernous Broadway houses into smaller venues. (The shows did, however, continue to infrequently appear in large theatres well into the 1950s.) The high ticket prices of many revues helped ensure audiences distinct from other live popular entertainments during their height of popularity (late 1910s-1940s). In 1914, for example, the Follies charged $5.00 for an opening night ticket; at that time, many cinema houses charged a $0.10-0.25, while low-priced vaudeville seats could be had for $0.15. [1] 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." Famed for his often bizarre publicity schemes and continual debt, Ziegfeld joined Earl Carroll, George White, and the Shubert Brothers as the leading producing figure of the American revue's golden age. Revues took advantage of their high revenue stream to lure away performers from other media, often offering exorbitant weekly salaries without the unrepentant travel demanded by other entertainments. Performers such as Eddie Cantor, Anna Held, W.C. Fields, Bert Williams, and the Fairbanks Twins found great success on the revue stage. Composers or lyricists such as Richard Rodgers, Lorenz Hart, Irving Berlin, and George M. Cohan also enjoyed a tremendous reception on the part of audiences. Sometimes, an appearance in a revue provided a key early entry into entertainment. Largely due to their centralization in New York City and adroit use of publicity, revues proved particularly adept at introducing new talents to the American The creative team of Rodgers and Hart. Fanny Brice performed with the Ziegfeld Follies from 1910 until the 1930s. theatre. Rodgers and Hart, one of the great composer/lyricist teams of the American musical theatre, followed up their early Columbia University student revues with the successful Garrick Gaieties (1925). Comedian Fanny Brice, following a brief period in burlesque and amateur variety, bowed to revue audiences in Ziegfeld's Follies of 1910. Specialist writers / composers of revues have included Sandy Wilson, Noël Coward, John Stromberg, George Gershwin, Earl Carroll and Flanders and Swann.
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