- Description
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Girl Crazy / Ginger Rogers [theatrical performance]
- Title
- Girl Crazy [Theatrical Performance]
- Performer
- Rogers, Ginger
- Published/Created
- 1930-10-14
- Genre
- Theatrical Performance
- Venue
- Alvin Theater
- Abstract
- A musical comedy in two acts, 8 scenes. book by Guy Bolton and John McGowan. Music by George Gershwin. Lyrics by Ira Gershwin. Staged by Alexander Leftwich. Dances and ensembles by George Hale. Opened 14 October 1930 at the Alvin Theatre and closed 6 June 1931 after 272 performances.
Fred Astaire, who was rehearsing for "Smiles" was called in to choreograph "Embraceable You" for Rogers and Allen Kearns. And so Astaire met Rogers for the first time. (Norton 1930.31) - Source
- Norton Anthology of Drama: Norton Anthology of Drama: Nineteenth Century to the Present (Vol. 2). W.W. Norton & Company (2009).
- Mueller, John: Astaire Dancing: The Musical Films. New York: Knopf (1985).
Last Updated: 12-16-2015