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Billy Barnes Revue
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- Cast : Joyce Jameson, Bert Convy, Ken Berry, Ann Guilbert, Jackie Joseph, Patti Regan, Bob Rodgers, Len Weinrib; Billy Barnes (Piano), Armin Hoffman (Piano)ebooks/Dietz, Dan/Complete Book of 1950s Broadway Musicals, The - Dan Dietz.txt
- Besides its exported Second City revues, Chicago also had its Medium Rare spoofs, and for a few years Washington, D.C.’s “Off-Broadway” Washington Theatre Club offered a series of satiric Spread Eagle revues. But for Los Angeles it was Billy Barnes who dominated the revue scene with his series of topical spoofs, most of which included his…ebooks/Dietz, Dan/Complete Book of 1950s Broadway Musicals, The - Dan Dietz.txt
- The Billy Barnes Revue (for New York, the revue lost the article and was titled Billy Barnes Revue ) first opened at Las Palmas Theatre in Los Angeles on October 15, 1958, and the cast album was released by Decca (LP # DL-9076); the CD was released by Master Classics Records (unnumbered). The informative liner notes carefully explained th…ebooks/Dietz, Dan/Complete Book of 1950s Broadway Musicals, The - Dan Dietz.txt
- Billy Barnes made one more trip to Broadway. The Billy Barnes People opened at the Royale Theatre on June 13, 1961, for seven performances, and the cast included four graduates of The Billy Barnes Revue (Jameson, Regan, Joseph, and Ken Berry) as well as newcomer Jo Anne Worley. Decca was to have recorded the cast album, which was cancelle…ebooks/Dietz, Dan/Complete Book of 1950s Broadway Musicals, The - Dan Dietz.txt
- Incidentally, Billy Barnes’ L.A. included another introspective tribute to Monroe, again sung by Jameson (“Does Anybody Here Love Me?”). The revue opened in Los Angeles on October 10, 1962, at the Coronet Theatre and was recorded by BB Records (LP # 1001). The revue also featured Jameson in “Sister Aimee,” about female evangelist Aimee Se…ebooks/Dietz, Dan/Complete Book of 1950s Broadway Musicals, The - Dan Dietz.txt
- As for Joyce Jameson, she made a mini-career of portraying Marilyn Monroe or MM-types. Besides “Safari a la Marilyn” and “(Have I Stayed) Too Long at the Fair?” for The Billy Barnes Revue and “Does Anybody Here Love Me?” for Billy Barnes’ L.A. , she appeared in Henry Denker’s 1962 Broadway comedy Venus at Large , in which she played a Hol…ebooks/Dietz, Dan/Complete Book of 1950s Broadway Musicals, The - Dan Dietz.txt
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