#1
Posted: 11/1/03 at 6:38pm
They competed with Ziegfeld.
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#3
Posted: 11/1/03 at 6:52pm
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#4
Posted: 11/1/03 at 8:50pm
Earl Carroll and George White?
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#5
Posted: 11/2/03 at 10:05am
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#6
Posted: 11/2/03 at 11:46am
I don't think anyone really competed with Ziegfeld. Ziegfeld's shows, no matter how opulent, were always classy affairs, with the best that money could buy: talent, scenery, costumes, music, et al. There was an aura around Ziegfeld: the shows might not always be good, but the exquisite showmanship could never be questioned.
George White and Earl Carroll were not really rivals. Yes, they had their Vanities and Scandals, but these were dressed down and gaudy affairs that lacked taste. It was what my grandmother used to call "shund." The Schubert brothers might be considered to be in a league with Ziegfeld, but again, their taste and eye for detail could never really match Ziegfeld's.
Probably I would say that no one could rival Ziegfeld. He was in a class all by himself. Love him or hate him, the man typified and personified an era that is long gone. And no one could measure up!!!
Miriam
George White and Earl Carroll were not really rivals. Yes, they had their Vanities and Scandals, but these were dressed down and gaudy affairs that lacked taste. It was what my grandmother used to call "shund." The Schubert brothers might be considered to be in a league with Ziegfeld, but again, their taste and eye for detail could never really match Ziegfeld's.
Probably I would say that no one could rival Ziegfeld. He was in a class all by himself. Love him or hate him, the man typified and personified an era that is long gone. And no one could measure up!!!
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Updated On: 11/2/03 at 11:46 AM
#7
Posted: 11/2/03 at 12:49pm
Granted, Miriam, competing with Ziefeld must have been next to impossible. Still, it's my understanding that there were several others who produced reveues in their own right. There were perhaps not as lavish, nor did they have the caliber of stars according to what I've read, nor did they span the decades to the extent of the Ziegfeld name. These gentlemen gave it a strong go, though.
Earl Carroll and his VANITIES, approximately 1923 thru 1940
George White and his SCANDALS, approximately 1919 thru 1940
Irving Berlin and his MUSIC BOX REVUES, approximately 1921 thru 1925
John Murray Anderson and his GRENWICH VILLAGE FOLLIES, approximately 1919 thru 1928
There were many more revues during the years just preceeding WWI with the majority of them ending years before WWII. Revues continue thru today (SUGAR BABIES, AIN'T MISBEHAVIN, SMOKEY JOE'S CAFE, PUTTING IT TOGETHER, to name a few). One might make an argrument that AVENUE Q is a contemporary equivalent of the musical revue (No boobs, please, we're politically correct!)
Ziegfeld, by the way, had his name associated with revues from his first in 1907 through 1957...50 years of glorifying the American girl.
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Earl Carroll and his VANITIES, approximately 1923 thru 1940
George White and his SCANDALS, approximately 1919 thru 1940
Irving Berlin and his MUSIC BOX REVUES, approximately 1921 thru 1925
John Murray Anderson and his GRENWICH VILLAGE FOLLIES, approximately 1919 thru 1928
There were many more revues during the years just preceeding WWI with the majority of them ending years before WWII. Revues continue thru today (SUGAR BABIES, AIN'T MISBEHAVIN, SMOKEY JOE'S CAFE, PUTTING IT TOGETHER, to name a few). One might make an argrument that AVENUE Q is a contemporary equivalent of the musical revue (No boobs, please, we're politically correct!)
Ziegfeld, by the way, had his name associated with revues from his first in 1907 through 1957...50 years of glorifying the American girl.
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#8
Posted: 11/2/03 at 1:32pm
The Greenwich Village Follies were small intimate revues, very much like the Music Box Revues, so they could not be compared to Ziegfeld's revues in any way.
Miriam
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#9
Posted: 11/2/03 at 2:39pm
Thank you Miriam. Terrific to learn that.
Perhaps the puzzler should have avoided the word "compete." I wanted to elicit the names of those who also produced revues, good or bad, over a number of seasons.
Thanks again for you first-hand observations. Always great to hear them.
Broadway Bulldog.
Perhaps the puzzler should have avoided the word "compete." I wanted to elicit the names of those who also produced revues, good or bad, over a number of seasons.
Thanks again for you first-hand observations. Always great to hear them.
Broadway Bulldog.
#10
Posted: 11/2/03 at 3:00pm
granted, the only way i know him is from the FUNNY LADY movie, but what about Billy Rose? didn't he produce spectacles to rival Zeigfeld? wasn't JUMBO his?
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#11
Posted: 11/2/03 at 4:13pm
Rose was indeed a producer. He did not regularly produce revues which was the focus of this puzzler. Yes he did produce JUMBO, a book show loose enough to allow interpolation of circus acts.
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