![]() V Radical changes in social and theatrical dance, each in turn was integrated into revues V Popularity of imitations as a performance specialty, especially as practiced in vaudeville and roof garden shows V Vaudeville’s success at marketing to specific audiences led revue producers to focus on “summer widowers,” businessmen whose families leave the city for summer V Extension of the Times Square/Broadway performance calendar to include summer productions, thanks to improvements in air conditioning and elevators ![]() V A swell of general interest in political and cultural news, fed by New York’s 13 daily papers Revues responded to a confluence of 3 urban and 3 cultural influences: Why did Revues become so popular in the early 20th century? ![]() Revues are too often defined by how they were not – musicals or vaudeville. They appeared on Broadway but were not musical comedies or operettas, since those genres were written to character around plots. They respected the specialties of performers, but were not vaudeville, since the selection and order of acts were curated, provided with a consistent vision determined by a producer or director. Although there were many single shot revues, the exhibit focuses on Broadway revues with multiple, annual editions. Join us for the Film Series, Hollywood's Rave Revues (Tuesday afternoons in May), and for three public programs on music (Wednesday, May 2 at 6:30), Dance (June 13 at 6:30), and Impressarios (June 20 at 6:30). ![]() What are Revues? In our fantasies, fed by nostalgia and Hollywood, they are concoctions of songs, dance, elaborate costumes and semi-nudity. To devotees of the American Songbook, they were the laboratories in which Berlin, Rodgers & Hart, Schwartz, Gorney, Harburg, Rome, and many others learned to ply their craft. To historians, they are editorial cartoons, preserving contemporary responses to Suffrage, Prohibition, World War I, and the other topical, political and cultural concerns of their day. ![]() Due to events being held in library, The Great American Revue exhibition will close early on the following day: ![]()
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