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The Will Rogers Follies

Opened 1991

983 performances

Musical, Megamusical

Tony Award for Best Musical, 1991

Keith Carradine, who was in the 1991 production. Bearbeiter: Frank C. Müller

The life and times of comic commentator Rogers (Keith Carradine) was told as if it were an edition of the Ziegfeld Follies, complete with beautifully costumed girls parading down long staircases and extraneous acts showing off rope twirling and performing dogs.

Music: Cy Coleman
Lyrics: Betty Comden and Adolph Green
Book: Peter Stone

Productions1 on Broadway

1991

The Palace TheatreBroadway Original, opened May 1, 1991

981 performances, 1 Tony wins

Songs8 songs

Will-a-Manina, Give a Man Enough Rope, My Unknown Someone, No Man Left for Me, Once in a While, Without You, Just a Couple Indian Boys, Never Met a Man I Didn’t Like

Recordings 1 recording

1991

The Will Rogers Follies: A Life in Revue (1991 original Broadway cast) Columbia CK 48606, released 1991

United States

Licensing 2 entries

US	Concord Theatricals Tams-Witmark	available
UK	Concord Theatricals Tams-Witmark	available

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