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| 1935 | Winter Garden Original. September 19, 1935 · Vincente Minnelli, Thomas Mitchell | 198 performances |
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The fifth and final mid-Thirties revue presented by the Shuberts at the Winter Garden was one of the brightest, merriest, and most elegant of the decade's stage attractions. Featuring two superior clowns, Beatrice Lillie and Bert Lahr, The Show Is On was something of a successor to At Home Abroad book:broadway-musicals-show-by-show-green-stanley-green-kay-5th-ed-rev-and-updated-by#p121
“Trains” (sketch by Reginald Gardner; from revue At Home Abroad , 1935) book:complete-book-of-1950s-broadway-musicals-the-dan-dietz#p275
The revue was a reunion for Lillie and Gardiner, who had appeared together in Howard Dietz and Arthur Schwartz’s 1935 revue At Home Abroad . book:complete-book-of-1950s-broadway-musicals-the-dan-dietz#p277
In 1935 Vincente Minnelli began his splashy tenure as revue master of the Winter Garden and he came up with At Home Abroad, a travelogue starring Beatrice Lillie, Ethel Waters, Eleanor Powell, and Reginald Gardiner. book:at-this-theatre-100-years-of-broadway-shows-stories-and-botto-louis-viagas-rober#p64
DIETZ AND SCHWARTZ’s At Home Abroad; and two productions of the ZieGreLD Fo.uiEs following the great showman’s death were highlights of their musical offerings. book:broadway-its-history-people-and-places-an-encyclopedia-bloom-ken-1949-2nd-ed-new#p506
Canadian-born revue star who appeared in André Charlot’s Revue of 1924, Walk a Little Faster (1932), At Home Abroad (1935), The Show Is On (1936), Set to Music (1939), Seven Lively Arts (1944), Inside U.S.A. (1948), and Ziegfeld Follies of 1957. book:historical-dictionary-of-the-broadway-musical-volume-22-william-a-everett-paul-r#p231
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