David Pittu, Victoria Clark and John Ellison Conlee in a scene from the MasterVoices concert production of the Gershwins' "Strike Up the Band" at Carnegie Hall on October 29, 2024 (Photo credit: Toby Tenenbaum) In 1927 after collaborating with composer Irving Berlin and librettist Morrie Ryskind on the Marx Brothers' second Broadway musical, The Cocoanuts, George S. Kaufman was asked by producer Edward Selwyn to writ…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 06:50PM on November 3, 2024