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... attraction Peter and Ted Darling discussed presenting a Stars of the Black and White Minstrel Show package as a touring attraction for the civic circuit. Ex-Minstrel stars Margaret Savage and Dai Francis were equally enthusiastic about joining the ven ...
... 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 ...
... 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 ...
... 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 ...
... Happy End; the Abbey Theatre in Observe the Sons of Uls ter Marching Towards the Somme; a new play by Martin Lynch, Minstrel Boys, at the Lyric Players; the National Theatre in Animal Farm; and Michael Pennington in his one- man show about Chekhov ...
... the trace elements of British balladry (fused with German, French and Negro influences) into a wholly American genre. The traditional aspects of American country music to this day retain vestiges of English. Irish and Scots folk music in their extensive ...
... elements which go to make up the American musical and actually goes into some detail as to how musicals are assembled. The introduction, showing the historical development of the musical, from ballad opera via comic opera, minstrel shows, revue and burlesque ...
... Royal trust keeps pier programme AN AL JOLSON Show starring former Black and White Minstrel Dai Francis as the famitat American entertainer is to be the summer season show at Yarmouth's Wellington Pier. Dick Condon and the Norwich Theatre Royal Trust ...
... Lenny Henry BLACKPOOL LAST TIME Lenny Henry was at Blackpool Opera House he was with the Black & White Minstrel Show and it was an irony not missed by the remarkably talented funnyman. i ney may nave started out singing do dah but they ended up saying ...
... Bailey Bros and Swinfen, Warner House, Folk- stone, Kent CT19 6PH, £35). It is easy to laugh at the earnestness with which Americans undertake theatre research, but I would hazard a guess that no one in this country would, or would even see the need of ...
... of the top five recording ai lists in the liisua t of the music business, tours of Australia and Europe t^i*H him, and the American tour stalling in July, he is known not only round the globe but wants to get into space through NASA as well. It was a folksy ...