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The Chocolate Dandies / Noble Sissle [theatrical performance]
- Title
- The Chocolate Dandies [Theatrical Performance]
- Performers
- Sissle, Noble
- Blake, Eubie
- Baker, Josephine
- Davis, Charles "Charlie"
- Williams, Bob
- Hudgin, Johnny
- Published/Created
- 1924-09-01
- Genre
- Theatrical Performance
- Venue
- Colonial Theater
- Abstract
- A musical comedy in two acts, 12 scenes. Book by Noble Sissle and Lew Payton. Music by Eubie Blake. Lyrics by Noble Sissle. Staged by Julian Mitchell. The
30 Bandanna Land Girls; 6 Bamville Vamps; 9 male Syncopated sunflowers;
Starring among others, Josephine Baker, as a Deserted Female. Chocolate Dandies was lavishly mounted, excellently cast, polished by six months on the road, and well received. Noble Sissle and Eubie Blake appeared. A new style of chorus tap dancing was introduced.
Charlie Davis featured in "Land of the Dancing Pickaninnies"; and "Jockey's Life for Mine". The finale, "Chocolate Dandies" featured Sissle and Blake and full chorus of Their Struttin' Company. (Norton 1924.27) - Source
- Norton Anthology of Drama: Norton Anthology of Drama: Nineteenth Century to the Present (Vol. 2). W.W. Norton & Company (2009).
- Bordman, Gerald: American Musical Theatre: A Chronicle. New York: Oxford University Press (1992).
Last Updated: 12-16-2015