Also credited on3 works
Music Box Revue
George White’s Scandals
Sinbad
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In the literature8 passages
- The Cocoanuts. Groucho Marx auctioning off Florida land assisted by brothers Chico, Zeppo, and Harpo. (White)ebooks/Green, Stanley/Broadway Musicals, Show By Show - Seventh Edition - Stanley Green & Cary Ginell.txt
- The Cocoanuts was the second of three musicals that the Marx Brothers starred in on Broadway, the others being I’ll Say She Is and Animal Crackers. As might be expected, it offered a gag-filled, loosely constructed spree in which the madcap team was allowed enough room to improvise and add new routines, such as the now classic Groucho-Chi…ebooks/Green, Stanley/Broadway Musicals, Show By Show - Seventh Edition - Stanley Green & Cary Ginell.txt
- That song was designed for the romantic leads in a 1925 musical comedy called The Cocoanuts , with a script by the very man who would spoof the style in June Moon : George S. Kaufman, a habitual collaborator working in this case with Morrie Ryskind. Intermittently over a span of three decades, Berlin would join forces with Kaufman and his…ebooks/Magee, Jeffrey/Irving Berlin's American Musical Theater (Broadway Legacies) - Jeffrey Magee.txt
- By all accounts, including Berlin’s, The Cocoanuts was not vintage Berlin. “He never talked about The Cocoanuts,” according to his daughter, “except to say it wasn’t the best score he ever wrote.” Stanley Green pronounced it “one of his lesser efforts.” 14 But the show compels attention for many reasons. It was Berlin’s sole book show of…ebooks/Magee, Jeffrey/Irving Berlin's American Musical Theater (Broadway Legacies) - Jeffrey Magee.txt
- Groucho Marx and Margaret Dumont began their legendary collaboration in The Cocoanuts. Courtesy of Rodgers & Hammerstein, on behalf of the Estate of Irving Berlin .ebooks/Magee, Jeffrey/Irving Berlin's American Musical Theater (Broadway Legacies) - Jeffrey Magee.txt
- None of Berlin’s songs for The Cocoanuts had staying power, which Ryskind attributes in part to Marxian madcap. 24 Yet certain numbers reinforce our understanding of patterns in his theatrical writing. The opening, for example, comprises a zany extended musical sequence featuring the hotel guests and Zeppo Marx (the brothers’ straight man…ebooks/Magee, Jeffrey/Irving Berlin's American Musical Theater (Broadway Legacies) - Jeffrey Magee.txt
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