T C JONES in MASK AND GOWN 1957

I saw a playbill on Ebay from a 1957 show produced by "New Faces" producer Leonard Sillman called "Mask and Gown", which starred female impersonator T C Jones. Does anyone here know anything about this show? Was it on Broadway? It featured original songs by Ronny Graham, June Carroll, Arthur Siegel & Dorothea Freitag. Was this show ever recorded? I couldn't find out much about T C Jones on the web. Was this the first Broadway show to feature a female impersonator in a major role?

Thanks for the links. I have also found out that Jones appeared in a 1965 Alfred Hitchcock Hour called "An Unlocked Window", which is supposed to be one of the most frightening and graphic thrillers ever on television and uncredited in the Blake Edwards 1967 film "Gunn".

An Unlocked Window is indeed still one of the most frightening hours of television ever broadcast. And T.C. Jones' performance is amazing. I just watched it again on a region 2 DVD set of The Alfred Hitchcock Hour TV shows.

As stated, Mask and Gown is on CD and I don't think it's that hard to find.

I'm watching it now, and I gotta say...I'm a bit creeped out.

ETA:
That was AWESOME.

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Updated On: 1/10/09 at 12:44 AM

Jones was the big star in New Faces. He did a hilarious take off of Tallulah Bankhead in Ziegfeld Follies. There is a recording of the show but it would be hard to find.