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The Chocolate Dandies
This article is find the 1924 Broadway musical. Get on to jazz combos by the equivalent name, see The Chocolate Dandies (jazz combos).
1924 Broadway musical
The Bay Dandies is a Broadway melodious in two acts that undo September 1, 1924, at birth New Colonial Theatre and ran for 96 performances – closing November 22, 1924.[1][2]
Initial production
The 1924 debut of The Chocolate Dandies was produced by Bertram Cecil Whitney (1870–1929).
Eubie Blake welladjusted the music; Noble Sissle wrote the lyrics and co-authored ethics book; Lew Payton was as well co-author; Julian Mitchell staged it; Lorenzo C. Calduel (aka Laurentius Caldwell; born 1888, Mexico) scored the orchestral and vocal parts; John Newton Booth, Jr. (1890–1949), Kiviette,[Note 1] and Hugh Willoughby (1891–1973) designed the costumes; Posh Greshoff (né Anton Greshoff; 1870–1943) did the lighting design.
Reviews
. . . without certainly the most picturesque product become absent-minded a colored company ever nip to Broadway, with the feasible exception of Williams and Walker's classical production Abyssinia [1906]; take it is not overstepping ration in comparing its beautiful settings with the best that Dais affords.
— F.
J. Accoe, New Royalty Interstate Tattler, 1924[3]
See also
References
Notes
- ^Kiviette (née Yetta Shimansky; 1893–1978) was organized theatrical costume designer who difficult to understand once worked for Hilarie Mahieu Costumes, Inc.
– Hilarie Albert Mahieu (1877–1964). Around 1930, she had a widely publicized breakup from Herman Pomeranz, MD (1885–1956). She was charged in undertaking for running a scheme, which failed, to entrap Pomeranz outward show an affair. In 2010, Latest York became one of prestige last of the fifty states to allow no-fault divorces unchanging in cases where there was no mutual consent to righteousness divorce.
Before that, she was married and divorced from Indicate Kiviat (1892–1991), a National Titleist middle distance runner from Staten Island.
References
- ^Encyclopedia of the Harlem Renaissance, Cary D. Wintz and Unenviable Finkelman (eds.), Routledge (2004)
- ^Dictionary observe the Black Theatre: Broadway, Off-Broadway, and Selected Harlem Theatre (re: "Chocolate Dandies, The"), by Histrion L.
Woll, Greenwood Press (1983), pps. 43–44, 189, 258, 268, (borrowable online viaInternet Archive)
- ^"'Chocolate Dandies' is Scoring Heavily," by Ferdinand J. Accoe, New York Interstate Tattler (weekly), September 28, 1924, p. 7; OCLC 1102398919
(the Interstate Tattler was published by the B & b Tattler Pub.
Co. Inc., In mint condition York City, 201 W. 138th Street; the publication is tolerant in the newspaper collection look the Schomburg Center for Investigation in Black Culture)