The Passing Show of 1913 Wayburn, Ned performer Theatrical Performance 1913-07-24 Winter Garden Theater Musical show/revue The Passing Show of 1913 had Ned Wayburn staging the evening, finishing with a number that had the line of girls parading up and down the steps before the U.S. Capitol. The Passing Show of 1913 (musical show/revue) staged by Ned Wayburn (1874-1942) produced by the Shubert Brothers at the Winter Garden Theatre in New York; the Act I finale, "Capital Steps" featured specialty and chorus dancers performing ballet and tap dance steps up, down, and across flights of stairs; the scene's final specialty number was the "Tangle-Footed Monkey Wrench" performed by the softshoe tap tandem team of Carter de Haven and Fred Nice, Jr., in "rube" outfits, performing tandem mirror work and shadowing work. The finale, "Inauguration Day" involved the scene's entire cast. The seven soloists and forty-eight female dancers tapped "rows of dancers tapping down the staircase in lines" and V-formations stretching from the stage floor to the level of the balustrades" or covering the entire staircase; while the male chorus, which did not dance, lined the edge of the staircase. Performing Arts Encyclopedia http://www.loc.gov/performingarts Bordman, Gerald: American Musical Theatre: A Chronicle. New York: Oxford University Press (1992). Tap Dance America http://lcweb2.loc.gov/diglib/ihas/html/tda/tda-home.html Ned Wayburn (biography) loc.music.tdabio.155 tda IHAS 151216 loc.music.tda.364