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245 10 a| Scandals and follies :b| the rise and fall of the great Broadway revue /c| Lee Davis.;

250 a| First edition.;

260 a| New York :b| Limelight Editions,c| 2000.;

300 a| 427 pages :b| illustrations ;c| 24 cm;

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337 a| unmediated2| rdamedia;

338 a| volume2| rdacarrier;

504 a| Includes bibliographical references (pages 377-379) and index.;

505 0 a| Boisterous beginnings: the pastorizing of Broadway -- From six-a-day to two-a-day to one-a-day -- Finally, the Follies -- The door opens -- Clash of the titans -- The real war -- The great challenger -- Say it with music -- Less is more -- High times -- We're out of the money -- Bad times, thoughtful times -- The war effort -- Death by electronics.;

520 a| The author, a lecturer and theater critic, revisits the legendary talents and the often outrageous impresarios who brought them to Broadway. Beginning with Florenz Ziegfelds's Follies of 1907, he tells how other producers were soon drawn to the revue and how its zaniness and spectacle became funhouse mirrors to the Jazz Age itself. The revues' madness and extravagance were replaced with social satire and political comment in the following decades and, finally, were dimmed by the advent of television.;

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Scandals and follies : the rise and fall of the great Broadway revue / Lee Davis.

Author/creator	Davis, Lee
Format	Book
Edition	First edition.
Publication Info	New York : Limelight Editions, 2000.
Description	427 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Subjects	Revues--New York (State). --New York. --History and criticism.

Contents	Boisterous beginnings: the pastorizing of Broadway -- From six-a-day to two-a-day to one-a-day -- Finally, the Follies -- The door opens -- Clash of the titans -- The real war -- The great challenger -- Say it with music -- Less is more -- High times -- We're out of the money -- Bad times, thoughtful times -- The war effort -- Death by electronics.
Abstract	The author, a lecturer and theater critic, revisits the legendary talents and the often outrageous impresarios who brought them to Broadway. Beginning with Florenz Ziegfelds's Follies of 1907, he tells how other producers were soon drawn to the revue and how its zaniness and spectacle became funhouse mirrors to the Jazz Age itself. The revues' madness and extravagance were replaced with social satire and political comment in the following decades and, finally, were dimmed by the advent of television.
Bibliography note	Includes bibliographical references (pages 377-379) and index.
LCCN	99088656
ISBN	0879102748

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