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SCANDALS AND FOLLIES: The Rise & Fall of the Great Broadway Revue
by Davis, Lee
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- Fine
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Fine/Fine
- ISBN 10
- 0879102748
- ISBN 13
- 9780879102746
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About This Item
New York, N. Y., U.S.A.: Limelight Editions, 2000. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. In its 1920s-'40s heyday, however, "revue" meant sparkling new songs and sketches. Though plotless, the best revues were formed around a unifying theme or principle -- newspaper headlines in As Thousands Cheer, world travel in At Home Abroad. Lavish or intimate, revues were among the most popular and topical entertainments of their time, reflecting current fads, attitudes and events. The great revues boasted songs by the likes of Irving Berlin, Howard Dietz and Arthur Schwartz, sketches by writers such as Moss Hart and George S. Kaufman. They provided a training ground for such famed performers as Al Jolson, Fanny Brice, W.C. Fields, Fred Astaire, Ethel Waters, Clifton Webb, Bea Lillie, Ray Bolger, Bert Lahr, Milton Berle, Imogene Coca, Sid Caesar, Eartha Kitt and Harry Belafonte.In its 1920s-'40s heyday, however, "revue" meant sparkling new songs and sketches. Though plotless, the best revues were formed around a unifying theme or principle -- newspaper headlines in As Thousands Cheer, world travel in At Home Abroad. Lavish or intimate, revues were among the most popular and topical entertainments of their time, reflecting current fads, attitudes and events. The great revues boasted songs by the likes of Irving Berlin, Howard Dietz and Arthur Schwartz, sketches by writers such as Moss Hart and George S. Kaufman. They provided a training ground for such famed performers as Al Jolson, Fanny Brice, W.C. Fields, Fred Astaire, Ethel Waters, Clifton Webb, Bea Lillie, Ray Bolger, Bert Lahr, Milton Berle, Imogene Coca, Sid Caesar, Eartha Kitt and Harry Belafonte.Underrepresented in most theatrical histories, the revue takes center stage inSCANDALS AND FOLLIES, a colorful and carefully detailed survey by Lee Davis, theater historian and author of Bolton and Wodehouse and Kern: The Men Who Made Musical Comedy. Davis begins by describing the rich chaos of early-20th-century entertainment, the melting pot of burlesque, minstrel show and spectacle that would evolve first into the random bills of vaudeville, then into the more structured revue-- Everett Evans, Chron. Fine first edition, first printing, in fine, mylar-protected dust jacket. [Notremainder-marked or price-clipped] BUND
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- Bookseller
- Joe Staats, Bookseller (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 025523
- Title
- SCANDALS AND FOLLIES: The Rise & Fall of the Great Broadway Revue
- Author
- Davis, Lee
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Fine
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- 1st Edition 1st Printing
- ISBN 10
- 0879102748
- ISBN 13
- 9780879102746
- Publisher
- Limelight Editions
- Place of Publication
- New York, N. Y., U.S.A.
- Date Published
- 2000
- Pages
- 427
- Size
- 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall
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We specialize in collectible, contemporary signed first editions. First edition means the first printing. (Later printings of the first edition are typically not printed on acid-free paper, and should be avoided by collectors.) Signatures are obtained by us in person. Inscribed books sold by us may contain a line, a phrase, or a sketch that the author has chosen to add. Our signed books are not dedicated to anybody in particular (not to your grandmother, your Aunt Gladys, your ex-lover or your former cellmate), except in the rare case of a presentation copy from an author to a noteworthy person. All our books are hardcover, unless the book is an Advance Reading Copy, Uncorrected Proof, or PBO. You can expect that the books we send you will be as described, and in a physical condition worthy of the author’s having signed them. We do not sell remainder-marked books, signed or otherwise
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