The Will Rogers Follies
Shows · The Will Rogers Follies
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.
- Opened
- 1991
- Performances
- 983
- Type
- Musical
- Era
- Megamusical
Won the Tony Award for Best Musical, 1991.
Productions1 on Broadway
| 1991 | The Palace Theatre Original. May 1, 1991 | 981 performances · 1 Tony wins |
Every Broadway staging held in broadway-data, sourced to IBDB. West End runs are not yet held.
Recordings 1 album held
Licensing 2 entries
| US | Concord Theatricals Tams-Witmark | available |
| UK | Concord Theatricals Tams-Witmark | available |
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25 passages naming The Will Rogers Follies, found by keyword across 178 books. It's where this show turns up in the literature, not curated trivia about it.
By the later 1990s, Prince had received more Tony Awards, twen... (incomplete but relevant) book:enchanted-evenings-the-broadway-musical-from-show-boat-block-geoffrey-oxford-new#p406
1991 1 May: The Will Rogers Follies, with music by Cy Coleman, lyrics by Comden and Green, and staging by Tommy Tune, premieres at the Palace Theater for a run of 981 performances. book:historical-dictionary-of-the-broadway-musical-volume-22-william-a-everett-paul-r#p31
The Will Rogers Follies finally managed to trump Raisin with 983 showings—that’s two years, three months—although subsidiary rights might eventually push it into the black. book:more-opening-nights-on-broadway-a-critical-quotebook-of-compiled-by-steven-suski#p37
Never Met a Man I Didn’t Like” (The Will Rogers Follies, 1991; lyric by Betty Comden and Adolph Green, music by Cy Coleman) book:the-complete-book-of-1990s-broadway-musicals-dan-dietz-paxton-mcnallie-2016-rowm#p77
for the previous year’s The Will Rogers Follies drew criticism, it’s surprising that “Slap That Bass” got a pass from the politically correct police. book:the-complete-book-of-1990s-broadway-musicals-dan-dietz-paxton-mcnallie-2016-rowm#p89
He won Best Original Score Tonys for On the Twentieth Century in 1978, City of Angels in 1990, and The Will Rogers Follies in 1991. book:the-golden-age-of-american-musical-theatre-1943-1965-naden-corinne-j-rowman-litt#p184
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