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  • 4 - Getting Ready for 1924

  • from Part I - From One Year to the Next
  • William A. Everett, University of Missouri, Kansas City
  • Book:
    The Year that Made the Musical
    Published online:
    26 September 2024
    Print publication:
    11 July 2024, pp 47-58

  • Summary

    On 25 and 26 December 1923, three musicals opened – The Rise of Rosie-Reilly, Mary Jane McKane, and Almond Eye – each of which reflected takes on current theatrical trends, whether a rags-to-riches scenario or Orientalism, followed on New Year’s Eve by The Song and Dance Man, a play about a musician, and Kid Boots, a musical comedy created for Eddie Cantor and, as a Ziegfeld production, included a revue built in to the plot. Kid Boots marked a change in professional reputation for Cantor as he moved from being known primarily as a blackface, often crass, comedian to a physical comedian whose humour was always clean.