Ethel Waters

On stage 10 productions, 23 years

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Worked with more than once12 names

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In the literature8 passages

• All songs were performed by Ethel Waters and pianist Reginald Beane, who also played musical sequences throughout the revue.ebooks/Dietz, Dan/Complete Book of 1950s Broadway Musicals, The - Dan Dietz.txt
• Best Plays noted that Ethel Waters was “personally pleasing as always,” but mentioned she wasn’t necessarily “at home” with her material. Perhaps there was the expectation the evening would focus on theatre music and not on non-theatre popular songs as well as gospel and spiritual numbers. But Emory Lewis in Cue liked the “deftly paced” e…ebooks/Dietz, Dan/Complete Book of 1950s Broadway Musicals, The - Dan Dietz.txt
• Ethel Waters (1896–1977) was a major star, and during her long career in night clubs, revues, book musicals, recordings, and films, she introduced such standards as “Am I Blue?,” “Stormy Weather,” “Heat Wave,” “Supper Time,” “Cabin in the Sky,” “Taking a Chance on Love,” and “Happiness Is Just a Thing Called Joe.” She was also at home in…ebooks/Dietz, Dan/Complete Book of 1950s Broadway Musicals, The - Dan Dietz.txt
• The personality revues listed below are more in the nature of concert-like personal appearances by Beatrice Lillie, Anna Russell, Ethel Waters, Libby Holman, Yves Montand, and the like. In some instances, other performers were on the bills, but it’s clear the productions were designed to showcase the special skills and talents of specific…ebooks/Dietz, Dan/Complete Book of 1950s Broadway Musicals, The - Dan Dietz.txt
• ROBERT WHITEHEAD: Ethel Waters had had some bad years during the war, even though she’d done many marvelous things on the stage. She was singing in this depressing nightclub in Detroit when I went to see her to offer her the part of Berenice Sadie Brown in The Member of the Wedding . She was rooted in the earth of that character, and I wa…ebooks/Frommer, Myrna Katz & Frommer, Harvey/It Happened on Broadway_ An Oral History of the Great White Way - Myrna Katz Frommer & Harvey Frommer.txt
• BILLIE ALLEN: In the 1950s I was offered the opportunity to work with Ethel Waters in the revival of Mamba’s Daughters . She was Brechtian, bigger than life, a force of nature, a geyser. I had heard she had affairs with young girls, and when we got together at the Empire Hotel, where she lived, I would always let her sit down first, and t…ebooks/Frommer, Myrna Katz & Frommer, Harvey/It Happened on Broadway_ An Oral History of the Great White Way - Myrna Katz Frommer & Harvey Frommer.txt

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