The 1920s The Golden Age of Broadway

An Exhibit By Ben Jaffe

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Important PeopleThe Beginning of Broadway

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A Shot of BroadwayBroadway During The Great Depression

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“"In Forty-second Street, it is a glowing Summer afternoon all night: one might almost wear white trousers and a straw hat. Theaters, night clubs, movie palaces, restaurants are all lighted at every porthole. Undiscovered prisms, rainbows squared” (Paul Morand)

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Vincent YoumansImportant People

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Vincent Youmans: Fought in WWI before coming home

• to write No, No, Nannette which became his most lasting

• success, and featured famous songs such as “Tea for Two”

Oscar Hammerstein

Oscar Hammerstein: Though he studied to become a lawyer, he truly dedicated his life to the stage. He has been a part of many shows that have lasted forever, especially when he later works with Richard Rodgers.

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Rudolf Frimls

Rudolf Frimls: Wrote The Vagabond King. Wrote many original Shows, but The Vagabond King, was the one that became a world-wide hit.

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Richard Rodgers

Richard Rodgers: A Columbia Graduate, that was a professional lyricist by the time he was 17. Worked with Harts to create Dearest Enemy and a number of other shows before Harts succumbed to drinking, and Rodgers teamed up with Hammerstein to write many timeless musicals.

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Jerome Kern

Jerome Kern: First to turn Musical Comedy into an art form. Collaborating with Oscar Hammerstein, he created the epics Showboat and Sunny. Kern’s music had timeless appeal.

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Marilyn Miller

Marilyn Miller: Perhaps the most famous performer of the time period. Her most successful show being Ziegfeld’s, Sally, she had a career of only being in eleven other shows, but was still the most beloved stage performer of the decade.

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