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1928 EARL CARROLL VANITIES Broadway revue program W.C. FIELDS and JOE FRISCO ads Image 1 of 4

Earl Carroll Vanities

Shows · Earl Carroll Vanities

A major rival to the Ziegfeld Follies and the George White’s Scandals series was the Earl Carroll Vanities, which Carroll introduced in 1923. He staged 11 editions of a revue featuring girls even less modestly garbed and production numbers even more overblown than found in similar entertainments then being offered to keep the tired businessman awake. The 1931 edition was the first attraction at the newly built Earl C…

Opened
1931
Performances
278
Type
Revue
Era
Early
Music: Burton Lane, etc.Lyrics: Harold Adamson, etc.

Productions1 on Broadway

1931 Earl Carroll Theatre Original. August 27, 1931 · Earl Carroll 278 performances

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In the literature20 passages

George White’s Scandals (13 editions), the Messrs. Shubert’s Passing Shows (12 editions), the Earl Carroll Vanities (11 editions), the Greenwich Village Follies (8 editions), and Irving Berlin’s Music Box Revues (4 editions). book:broadway-musicals-show-by-show-seventh-edition-stanley-green-cary-ginell#p27

the Earl Carroll Vanities (11 editions) book:broadway-musicals-show-by-show-green-stanley-green-kay-5th-ed-rev-and-updated-by#p38

A third Andre Chariot Revue opened in January 1927 as featured attraction of the “International Edition” of the Earl Carroll Vanities. book:broadway-musicals-show-by-show-green-stanley-green-kay-5th-ed-rev-and-updated-by#p66

It was during a birthday party for Edrington during the fourth Vanities that some of the girls allegedly took a bath in champagne. book:historical-dictionary-of-the-broadway-musical-volume-22-william-a-everett-paul-r#p98

One of the few musicals from the first half of the 20th century with music by a woman, Fine and Dandy was a vehicle for the comedian Joe Cook. He appeared in several versions of Earl Carroll Vanities in the 1920s as a rapid-talking comic, a fine acrobat, and a juggler. book:historical-dictionary-of-the-broadway-musical-volume-22-william-a-everett-paul-r#p147

The most durable spectacular revues reappeared annually in new editions that were similarly structured but contained new material. Like brand names, the titles of several bore the monikers of their producers as guarantors of quality, or at least stylistic continuity from one edition to the next: Ziegfeld Follies, Georg… book:showtime-a-history-of-the-broadway-musical-theatre-larry-stempel#p234

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