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18 Cards in this Set
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What are Cinderella musicals?
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Musicals about poor girls who married into a rich family.
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Who was the biggest producer ever?
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Florenz Zeigfeld
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How did Zeigfeld get his start?
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In Chicago showing off Sandow
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Who was known in Cinderella musicals?
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Irene Sally
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Princess Musicals started where?
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In a princess Theatre with 299 seats
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Princess musicals are good because of who?
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Jerome Kern who wrote Show boat
Guy Bolten P.G. Wod E House (Woozter & Jeeves) |
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Why were princess musical's better?
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They had better acting, were local, and had an integrated book and song
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Who wrote the Show Boat Score?
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Oscar Hammerstein II
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Who wrote the Show Boat book?
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Jerome Kern
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What's a pressing play?
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A play about a mixed woman
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What's a revisal?
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A revival and a revision
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3 fake 20's shows:
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Drowsy Chaperone, The boyfriend, Nice work if you can get it.
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5 real 1920's shows:
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Tea for two, I want to be happy, Good News, Varsity Drag, Life is a bowl of Cherries
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Elements of Zigfeld's shows?
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Glorifying the American Girl, Zeigfeld walk, Had popular comedians in between acts.
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First Black musical:
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Shuffle Along (1921)
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Zigfeld had these at night:
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Midnight Frolics
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The Winter Garden
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Al Johnson, Blackface performer, first talkie
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Earl Carroll's Vanities
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Had nudity in his show
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