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... Academic skills applied to entertainment American Popular Stage Music 1860-1880, by Deane L. Root (UMI Research Press, Bowker Publishing r.n f>l IT IS sometimes stated that The Black Crook was the first American musical. The truth is that it could more ...
... but English folk-rock and American bluegrass are just two of the many influences to have found their way into the work of The Arizona Smoke Revue. rounder Bill Zorn, for instance, was a member of the New Christy Minstrels for four years and the Kingston ...
... RAMSGATE QUEEN'S HALL THERE is nothing like minstrels for good, clean, unsophisticated fun so Girling's sixth production at the Queen's Hall the spectacular Minstrel Show is the epitome of seaside entertainment. Packing in audiences of mainly senior citizens ...
... U.S.A. CBS (Roger Gimbel Tomorrow Enterprises) The Minstrel Man 105 minutes, 35 mm. no subtitles THE Americans described this as a dramatic and musical special, which was apt. since it dramatised the life of black entertainers in the last quarter of the ...
... in a wide range of items. When he was on siage at the opening as South American Flo in a colourful South American fan- tastico and as At Jolson in an impressive finale; a Minstrel Show with special lighting effects; the audience did their best lo keep ...
... most of the music, including White Christmas for the BING CROSBY and BOB HOPE films RAY SHANNON RAY SHANNON, the well-known American vaudeville and production comedian, who died, at the age of 7b, on January 1, in Cincinnati, U.S.A., was, for three years ...
... major tours for 1 982. The Arizona Smoke Revue, comprising Bill and Pete Zorn (formerly of the Kingston Trio and New Christy Minstrels) and British session musi cians Phil Beer and Paul Downes, start their first country club tour on February 4, with Linda ...
... of the Black and White Minstrel Show when they arived at the Hotel New Ambassadors in London's Wohurn Place, where Leslie opened a new cocktail lounge named the Minstrel Bar. The entire cast of the ''Black and White Minstrel Show, who are cur* rently ...
... America when he failed his examination for Ihe Army. There he appeared with circuses and Western minstrel troupes. By the time he was 27 he drifted into tbe American theatre and played with Maurice Barrymore. He returned to London in 1899 and appeared in The ...
... Zorn, who has been with both the Kingston Trio and the New Christy Minstrels, on banjo, guitar and vocals, and the noted West Country duo Paul Downes and Phil Beer, with another American, Gene Vogel, as guest artist. The unit has been sol'dly booked since ...
... present their show in minstrel form, gaily costumed and with a lively continuity of music and dialogue. It is a jolly but very lightweight affair and one which misses its main chances. I think, by relying so much on American material instead of the ...
... Luff office who pro- uce the Black and White Minstrel Show wish us to point out that they are in no way connected with the New Minstrel Show that was advertising for artistes in last week's issue. 0 American singing star Howard Keel is booked to appear ...