Productions1 on Broadway
| 1931 | Original Theatre not recorded. · Ted Healy | 87 performances |
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Best Plays reported that Heywood Broun’s Shoot the Works! (or Shoot the Works, depending on which page of the program you looked at) was a “cooperative revue” presented by Broun “for the purpose of giving a hundred or more out-of-work actors temporary jobs.” And temporary it was, because the show ran for only a few wee… book:the-complete-book-of-1930s-broadway-musicals-dietz-dan-rowman-littlefield-publis#p156
dancer Al Norman, who had impressed everyone in Shoot the Works!, had appeared in that show just days before the opening of the Vanities. book:the-complete-book-of-1930s-broadway-musicals-dietz-dan-rowman-littlefield-publis#p160
Paramount made two film versions of the play, in 1934 and 1939, and counting the source material itself, every version introduced a hit song: the play of course offered \"It\'s Only a Paper Moon\"; the 1934 film version was titled Shoot the Works (which wasn\'t related to the 1931 Broadway revue) and introduced the lov… book:the-complete-book-of-1930s-broadway-musicals-dietz-dan-rowman-littlefield-publis#p257
Nobody got rich. Revues like this had been done in England but over here it was a departure from the usual commercial Broadway venture. book:revue-a-nostalgic-reprise-of-the-great-broadway-period-baral-robert-author-1st-e#p197
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