- Description
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Bamboola / Bill "Bojangles" Robinson [theatrical performance]
- Title
- Bamboola [Theatrical Performance]
- Performer
- Robinson, Bill "Bojangles"
- Published/Created
- 1929-06-26
- Genre
- Theatrical Performance
- Venue
- Royale Theater
- Abstract
- Bamboola told of the attempts to take a home grown show to New York. Dancing was the highlight of the show, as it was for most black musicals. A salute to Bill Robinson found twenty of the show's top hoofers mimicking Robinson's famous routine rapping his way up and down a staircase. The evening's funniest sketch portrayed a Harlem rent party. Rigidly preconceived notions of what a black entertainment should be inevitably led one critic or another to see unwarranted attempts to imitate white musicals.
- Source
- Bordman, Gerald: American Musical Theatre: A Chronicle. New York: Oxford University Press (1992).
Last Updated: 12-16-2015