Borscht Capades
Shows · Borscht Capades
Like Bagels and Yox, Borscht Capades offered comics, singers, dancers, and a brief foray into serious Jewish music (such as the sequences “Lighting of the Sabbath Candles” and “Danse Chassidic”). Richard Watts in the New York Post said in comparison with Bagels and Yox he was almost prepared to call Borscht Capades a “masterpiece.” But he restrained himself, and was content to say the new “English-Yiddish” (as oppose…
- Opened
- 1951
- Performances
- 99
- Type
- Revue
- Era
- Golden Age
Productions1 on Broadway
| 1951 | Royale Theatre Original. September 17, 1951 · Mickey Katz | 99 performances |
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3 passages naming Borscht Capades, found by keyword across 178 books. It's where this show turns up in the literature, not curated trivia about it.
The revue originated in Hollywood, and as Borscht Capades of 1951 toured a number of cities including Chicago, Miami Beach, Detroit, Cleveland, Toronto, and Montreal. book:complete-book-of-1950s-broadway-musicals-the-dan-dietz#p203
Costumes: 1951 Borscht Capades book:the-broadway-design-roster-designers-and-their-credits-owen-bobbi-bibliographies#p484
Borscht Capades (1951) Charles Elson*®***-*; Natalie Barth Walker**** book:the-broadway-design-roster-designers-and-their-credits-owen-bobbi-bibliographies#p555
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