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Borscht Capades

Shows · Borscht Capades

Like Bagels and Yox, Borscht Capades offered comics, singers, dancers, and a brief foray into serious Jewish music (such as the sequences “Lighting of the Sabbath Candles” and “Danse Chassidic”). Richard Watts in the New York Post said in comparison with Bagels and Yox he was almost prepared to call Borscht Capades a “masterpiece.” But he restrained himself, and was content to say the new “English-Yiddish” (as oppose…

Opened
1951
Performances
99
Type
Revue
Era
Golden Age
Music: Mickey KatzLyrics: Mickey Katz

Productions1 on Broadway

1951 Royale Theatre Original. September 17, 1951 · Mickey Katz 99 performances

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In the literature3 passages

The revue originated in Hollywood, and as Borscht Capades of 1951 toured a number of cities including Chicago, Miami Beach, Detroit, Cleveland, Toronto, and Montreal. book:complete-book-of-1950s-broadway-musicals-the-dan-dietz#p203

Costumes: 1951 Borscht Capades book:the-broadway-design-roster-designers-and-their-credits-owen-bobbi-bibliographies#p484

Borscht Capades (1951) Charles Elson*®***-*; Natalie Barth Walker**** book:the-broadway-design-roster-designers-and-their-credits-owen-bobbi-bibliographies#p555

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