The Ziegfeld Follies
Brainchild of Broadway impresario Florenz Ziegfeld and his first wife, European singer Anna Held, The Ziegfeld Follies dominated the American theatrical revue scene from 1907 unti...
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It sounds like an idea made for Man in Chair, the obsessive musical theater fan from "The Drowsy Chaperone" _ an evening celebrating the old-time Broadway revue, with some songs that haven't had th...
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American dancer (b. Oct. 20, 1914,
Mobile, Ala.
—d. Jan. 24, 2006, Toluca Lake,
Calif.
), with his brother,
Harold
, made up the world-famous tap-dancing duo the Nicholas Brothers. They de...
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Vilma Ebsen, who danced in the film "Broadway Melody of 1936" with her brother Buddy long before he became famous on "The Beverly Hillbillies," has died. She was 96.Vilma Ebsen, a dance instructor ...
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John BackusJohn Backus, whose development of the Fortran programming language in the 1950s changed how people interacted with computers and paved the way for modern software, died Saturday. He was ...
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Stephen Gaghan’s Syriana, from a screenplay by Mr. Gaghan, suggested by the book See No Evil by Robert Baer, seems to position itself as a serious-minded political statement by studiously, ev...
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Stephen Gaghan’s Syriana, from a screenplay by Mr. Gaghan, suggested by the book See No Evil by Robert Baer, seems to position itself as a serious-minded political statement by studiously, ev...
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