Bamboola
Robinson, Bill "Bojangles"
performer
Theatrical Performance
1929-06-26
Royale Theater
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.
Performing Arts Encyclopedia
http://www.loc.gov/performingarts
Bordman, Gerald: American Musical Theatre: A Chronicle. New York: Oxford University Press (1992).
Tap Dance America
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Bill "Bojangles" Robinson (biography)
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tda
IHAS
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loc.music.tda.346