The Will Rogers Follies

Productions1 on Broadway

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Recordings 1 album held

The Will Rogers Follies: A Life in Revue (1991 original Broadway cast) Columbia CK 48606. 1991

Licensing 2 entries

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In the literature25 passages

By the later 1990s, Prince had received more Tony Awards, twen... (incomplete but relevant) book:enchanted-evenings-the-broadway-musical-from-show-boat-block-geoffrey-oxford-new#p406

1991 1 May: The Will Rogers Follies, with music by Cy Coleman, lyrics by Comden and Green, and staging by Tommy Tune, premieres at the Palace Theater for a run of 981 performances. book:historical-dictionary-of-the-broadway-musical-volume-22-william-a-everett-paul-r#p31

The Will Rogers Follies finally managed to trump Raisin with 983 showings—that’s two years, three months—although subsidiary rights might eventually push it into the black. book:more-opening-nights-on-broadway-a-critical-quotebook-of-compiled-by-steven-suski#p37

Never Met a Man I Didn’t Like” (The Will Rogers Follies, 1991; lyric by Betty Comden and Adolph Green, music by Cy Coleman) book:the-complete-book-of-1990s-broadway-musicals-dan-dietz-paxton-mcnallie-2016-rowm#p77

for the previous year’s The Will Rogers Follies drew criticism, it’s surprising that “Slap That Bass” got a pass from the politically correct police. book:the-complete-book-of-1990s-broadway-musicals-dan-dietz-paxton-mcnallie-2016-rowm#p89

He won Best Original Score Tonys for On the Twentieth Century in 1978, City of Angels in 1990, and The Will Rogers Follies in 1991. book:the-golden-age-of-american-musical-theatre-1943-1965-naden-corinne-j-rowman-litt#p184

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