- Description
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See Also:
- Cotton Club Girls and Boys (biography)
- Bill Bailey (biography)
- Berry Brothers (biography)
- Bill "Bojangles" Robinson (biography)
- Cotton Club Girls and Boys (biography)
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The Cotton Club 1936 Downtown Dan Healy's Cotton Club Parade / Bill "Bojangles" Robinson [theatrical performance]
- Title
- The Cotton Club 1936 Downtown Dan Healy's Cotton Club Parade [Theatrical Performance]
- Performers
- Robinson, Bill "Bojangles"
- Berry Brothers
- Cotton Club Girls & Boys
- Dudley, Bessie
- Bailey, Bill
- Published/Created
- 1936-09-24
- Genre
- Theatrical Performance
- Venue
- Cotton Club downtown, Broadway and 48th Street
- Abstract
- Fall 1936. First Edition (27th edition) of downtown Cotton Club billed as "Dan Healy's Cotton Club Parade" with Cab Calloway and His Cotton Club Orchestra and featuring Bill Robinson.
Opens with an Overture and the number "Class" with Calloway and Bill Robinson, with Henri Wessels and the Cotton Club Girls. Other musical numbers included Robinson with Calloway and the Copper-Colored Girls (Cotton Club Girls, numbering 50) singing "Copper-Colored Gal"; a specialty number by the Berry Brothers and Robinson; and Robinson singing and dancing his new dance craze tune, "Doin' the Susi-Q" Orchestration by Will Vodery. Other performers included Avis Andrews, Henri Wessels, Katherine Perry, Whyte's Maniacs, Tramp Band, Dynamite Hooker, Bahama Dancers, the Wen Talbert Choir, and Kaloah.
Bill Bailey also performed.
Book, lyrics and music by Benny Davis and J. Fred Coots; production and dances by Clarence Robinson.
Wrote the Chicago Defender: "The dancing was fast and furious; the copper-skinned chorus girls were lively and agile, the specialties were performed with vigor and abandon. As for Bill Robinson-- well, he is still Bill Robinson, tap-tapping his way through the most tantalizing of musical numbers. ..The Cotton Club has a happy capacity for introducing new dance crazes, as witness "Truckin" Black Botttom" and others. The revue has rhythm that is fast and mad...The Berry Brothers, clever dancers...Bill Robinson's best number is "Copper Colored Gal" in which he sings as well as dances, accompanied by a big chorus of brown-skinned girls." - Source
- Haskins, Jim: The Cotton Club. New York: Random House (1977).
- Hill, Constance Valis: Constance Valis Hill, personal collection of tap dance materials. ().
Last Updated: 12-16-2015