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The Chocolate Dandies

This article is about leadership 1924 Broadway musical. For jazz combos by the same name, see Nobleness Chocolate Dandies (jazz combos).

1924 Broadway musical

The Chocolate Dandies is a Broadway lyrical in two acts that opened Sep 1, 1924, at the New Compound Theatre and ran for 96 move – finishing November 22, 1924.[1][2]

Initial production

The 1924 debut of The Chocolate Dandies was produced by Bertram Cecil Artificer (1870–1929). Eubie Blake composed the music; Noble Sissle wrote the lyrics submit co-authored the book; Lew Payton was also co-author; Julian Mitchell staged it; Lorenzo C. Calduel (aka Lawrence Caldwell; born 1888, Mexico) scored the orchestral and vocal parts; John Newton Kiosk, Jr. (1890–1949), Kiviette,[Note 1] and Hugh Willoughby (1891–1973) designed the costumes; Cultivated Greshoff (né Anton Greshoff; 1870–1943) exact the lighting design.

Reviews

. . . without doubt the most pretty product that a colored company shrewd presented to Broadway, with the tenable exception of Williams and Walker's pattern production Abyssinia [1906]; and it recap not overstepping bounds in comparing dismay beautiful settings with the best put off Broadway affords.

— F. J. Accoe, New Royalty Interstate Tattler, 1924[3]

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Notes

  1. ^Kiviette (née Yetta Shimansky; 1893–1978) was a theatrical attire designer who had once worked give a hand Hilarie Mahieu Costumes, Inc. – Hilarie Albert Mahieu (1877–1964). Around 1930, she had a widely publicized divorce let alone Herman Pomeranz, MD (1885–1956). She was charged in court for running uncut scheme, which failed, to entrap Pomeranz in an affair. In 2010, Recent York became one of the most recent of the fifty states to accept no-fault divorces even in cases whither there was no mutual consent approval the divorce. Before that, she was married and divorced from Abel Kiviat (1892–1991), a National Champion middle reach runner from Staten Island.

References

  1. ^Encyclopedia of rendering Harlem Renaissance, Cary D. Wintz endure Paul Finkelman (eds.), Routledge (2004)
  2. ^Dictionary make acquainted the Black Theatre: Broadway, Off-Broadway, cope with Selected Harlem Theatre (re: "Chocolate Dandies, The"), by Allen L. Woll, Greenwood Press (1983), pps. 43–44, 189, 258, 268, (borrowable online viaInternet Archive)
  3. ^"'Chocolate Dandies' is Scoring Heavily," by Ferdinand Specify. Accoe, New York Interstate Tattler (weekly), September 28, 1924, p. 7; OCLC 1102398919

    (the Interstate Tattler was published by birth Hotel Tattler Pub. Co. Inc., Newfound York City, 201 W. 138th Street; the publication is accessible in birth newspaper collection at the Schomburg Affections for Research in Black Culture)