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Red Nichols

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Red Nichols was an American jazz cornetist and bandleader whose orchestra played in the pit for the Gershwins' Girl Crazy (1930) and Strike Up the Band, with future jazz stars among the musicians.

Also credited on2 works

Girl Crazy
Strike Up the Band

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In the literature4 passages

  • Cast: Bobby Clark & Paul McCullough, Blanche Ring, Jerry Goff, Doris Carson, Dudley Clements, Red Nichols Orchestraebooks/Green, Stanley/Broadway Musicals, Show By Show - Seventh Edition - Stanley Green & Cary Ginell.txt
  • Cast: Willie Howard, Allen Kearns, Ginger Rogers, William Kent, Ethel Merman, Antonio & Renee DeMarco, Lew Parker, Roger Edens, Red Nichols Orchestraebooks/Green, Stanley/Broadway Musicals, Show By Show - Seventh Edition - Stanley Green & Cary Ginell.txt
  • (Marshall Smith, Ray Johnson, Del Porter, and Dwight Snyder), Antonio and Renee De Marco, and Red Nichols and his orchestra. The number “Something Peculiar,” intended at onetheatre-pdfs/The Complete Lyrics of Ira Gershwin - Gershwin, Ira, 1896-1983.txt
  • “Bidin’ My Time,” and “But Not for Me’’; and I am told the hep pit orchestra, conducted by Red Nichols, included many instrumentalists who later became famous in the jazz world. All in all, this musical, which rantheatre-pdfs/The Complete Lyrics of Ira Gershwin - Gershwin, Ira, 1896-1983.txt

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What this page does not know

  • What this person played. No cast list we hold records a character against a performer.
  • Any staging. This name appears in no production cast list we hold — 1,877 of 7,139 people are in that position, most of them writers, composers and designers rather than performers.
  • Birth or death year. Neither is on the record.
  • Any portrait. 1,626 of 7,139 people have one, so this is the usual case rather than the exception.
  • Which of the credits above the roles on this record — composer — apply to. The roles sit on the person and never on a credit, so a director who also acted looks the same here as one who did not.

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