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The Little Show

Shows · The Little Show

first of 11 Broadway musicals to feature songs by the team of Arthur Schwartz and Howard Dietz. In its smartness, style, and intimacy (in 1929 a show with 29 in the cast qualified as little), the revue was something of an American counterpart to the British Charlot Revues and This Year of Grace.

Opened
1929
Performances
321
Type
Musical
Era
Early
Music: Arthur Schwartz etc.Lyrics: Howard Dietz, etc.

Productions1 on Broadway

1929 Music Box Original. April 30, 1929 · Dwight Deere Wiman, Alexander Leftwich 321 performances

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In the literature27 passages

first of 11 Broadway musicals to feature songs by the team of Arthur Schwartz and Howard Dietz. book:broadway-musicals-show-by-show-seventh-edition-stanley-green-cary-ginell#p74

Once the sponsors of The Second Little Show decided that the stars of the first Little Show — Clifton Webb, Fred Allen, and Libby Holman — would not be in their new revue, fledgling producer Max Gordon persuaded the trio to appear in his own revue. book:broadway-musicals-show-by-show-seventh-edition-stanley-green-cary-ginell#p80

Flying Colors flew in a direct line from The Little Show, Three’s a Crowd, and The Band Wagon. book:broadway-musicals-show-by-show-seventh-edition-stanley-green-cary-ginell#p85

This was to be her Broadway come-back after having scored in such lauded revues as The Little Show and Three's A Crowd. book:at-this-theatre-100-years-of-broadway-shows-stories-and-botto-louis-viagas-rober#p33

Howard Dietz and Arthur Schwartz made history with The Little Show (4/30/29; 321 performances). The songwriting team was warming up for their biggest triumph, The Band Wagon. book:broadway-its-history-people-and-places-an-encyclopedia-bloom-ken-1949-2nd-ed-new#p384

he was to face several bleak years until THE LITTLE SHOW [Schwartz: April 30, 1929] came along. book:show-tunes-1905-1985-the-songs-shows-and-careers-of-steven-suskin-1st-ed-new-yor#p79

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