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Keep Shufflin' / Thomas "Fats" Waller [theatrical performance]
- Title
- Keep Shufflin' [Theatrical Performance]
- Performers
- Waller, Thomas "Fats"
- Robinson, Clarence
- Published/Created
- 1928-02-27
- Genre
- Theatrical Performance
- Venue
- Eltinge Theater
- Abstract
- A musical comedy in two acts, 8 scenes. Book by Flournoy Miller and Aubrey Lyles. Music by James P. Johnson, (Thomas) Fats Waller, Clarence Todd. Lyrics by Henry Creamer and Andy Razaf. Dances and ensembles staged by Clarence Robinson. Opened 27 February 1928 at the Eltinge Theatre and closed 26 May 1928 after 107 performances.
A sequel to Shuffle Along (1921). Thomas "Fats" Waller played piano and composed the score. Black dancing remained the yardstick by which such evenings were rated. The World observed that the chorus "danced with such ardor and such grotesquerie last night as to knock the show out of drawing." (Norton 1928.10) - 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