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Shows · Razzle Dazzle · The Arena, 1951

Razzle Dazzle, 1951

Opened February 19, 1951

Closed February 24, 1951

8 performances

The Arena

Original

Broadway

Razzle Dazzle
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Of the productions that opened in the 1950s, this had the 569th longest run.

Who was in it16 named

Creative team

Director
Edward Reveaux
Choreographer
Nelle Fisher, Jerry Ross
Producer
David Heilweil and Derrick Lynn-Thomas in association with Madeline Capp and Greer Johnson

Around this production

'Razzle Dazzle' became the ambivalent emblem not just of Chicago or even the Broadway musi…Sparkling Musical Play of the West.

In Razzle Dazzle , his book about Fosse, Kevin Grubb speaks of “a waitress he met while performing with Charles Grass in Springfield, Illinois. She was in her thirties, Fosse was fifteen. This affair lasted until her husband came back from overseas, where he was a serviceman during World War II, and accused his wife in…

Broadway the Golden Years Jerome Robbins and the Great Long Robert Emmet New Yor, p. 157

'The more we talked about him': Grubb, Razzle Dazzle, 8–9.

Fosse Sam Wasson, p. 568

'Joanie sounded off about Bob every time': Grubb, Razzle Dazzle, 33.

Fosse Sam Wasson, p. 580

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