Music Box Revue

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The Music Box Theater

Music Box Revue was the title of a series of Revue productions on Broadway for which Irving Berlin composed the music. Four shows were put out between 1921 and 1925. The revues were named after the Music Box Theater built especially for this purpose . The producer Sam H. Harris had the intention to reserve the theater exclusively for the musical work of Berlin.

The first Music Box Revue opened on September 22, 1921, directed by Hassard Short , who was also responsible for the next two editions. The revue was successful, had 440 performances and had two big hits with “ Everybody Step ” and “ Say It with Music ”.

Well-known entertainers appeared in the Music Box Revues , e.g. B. the vocal group The Brox Sisters , the comedian duo Bobby Clark and Paul McCullough , the actor William Gaxton , the opera singer Grace Moore .
In 1924/25 the star of the Ziegfeld Follies , Fanny Brice , was signed up.

After the fourth edition, the least successful with 184 performances (1924/25), Berlin and Harris ended their music theater project - their next joint work was the Marx Brothers musical The Cocoanuts in 1925 , which was released at the Lyric Theater. As usual on Broadway, the Music Box Theater was rented out for various (non-musical) theater productions - it wasn't until 1928 that a musical was shown again in the house: Paris with the music of Cole Porter .

literature

  • Thomas Streissguth, Jennifer Hagerman: Say it with Music: A Story about Irving Berlin . Millbrook Press, 1994, ISBN 0-87614-810-0 .

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