Ethel Shutta belting out "Broadway Baby" in "Follies" (1971).March 13, 2013: Theatre Yesterday and Today, by Ron Fassler When the musical Follies opened on Broadway in 1971, a show set at a reunion of former Ziegfeld-like showgirls, seventy-four-year-old Ethel Shutta (pronounced shuh-TAY), a former Ziegfeld alum herself, had already experienced a long up-and-down career in show business. It began when she was a ch…
SOURCE: ronfassler.medium.com at 09:50AM on March 13, 2023