Sid Silvers \"GREENWICH VILLAGE FOLLIES\" Bailey and Barnum 1927 Sheet Music For Sale

This is a rarepiece ofsheet musicfor the song\"DID YOU MEAN IT?\" featured by WILLIAM BAILEY and DAVID BARNUM in theOriginal Broadway production of the Seventh Annual New York Latin Quarter Revusical Comedy \"THEGREENWICH VILLAGE FOLLIES\"at Chanin\'s 46th Street Theatre in New York City.(The production opened December 24th, 1925 and ran for 180 performances.) ..... TheGreenwich Village Theatre was located between Christopher Street and West Fourth Street across from Sheridan Square.The theatreopened as a neighborhood playhouse in November of 1917 and was built by Maguerite Abbott Barker. The first shows were so good that they attracted uptown audiences downtown in droves. The one thing responsible for putting the theatre on the map was \"THE GREENWICH VILLAGE FOLLIES\", a \"Revusical Comedy of New York\'s Latin Quarter\",invented and produced for the stage by JOHN MURRAY ANDERSON. In these Pre and Post World War One days, the lavish Broadway playhouses competed with more and more money to stage the biggest and most dazzling shows. Murray had no money, but all the talent he needed to create the very concept of the intimate revueof New York City. The first \"Follies\" of Greenwich Village opened in July of 1919. It wasn\'t long before a \"Sold Out\" sign hung in the box office window. After a six week run the show moved uptown to Broadway, which no other Village production had ever managed to do before. A second \"Follies\" was spun by Anderson for the 1920 season, and like the first, it also moved to a Broadway theatre. From then on the \"Follies\" became a Broadway only production and renewed itself annually throughout the 1920\'s. (Reprinted in part from the Greenwich Village Gazette website) .....The Seventh Edition featured CLARENCE NORDSTROM, IRENE DELROY, ROYAL HALEE, WARREN CROSBY, BETTY McLAUGHLIN, ELAINE ARDEN, DOROTHY DE MERLE, NINA LEWIS, ALICE HARRIS, VIVIAN WYNDHAM, HELEN SHEPERD, GLADYS GLAD, DELLA YANNA, TEDDY GILL, LILLIAN MOREHOUSE, ELAINE FIELDS, OLGA BROUNOFF, FRAUN KOSKI, ARDETH LEONHART, CATHERINE JANEWAY, RENIE RIANO, FRANK McINTYRE, SAM HEARN, JOE LYONS, JANE GREEN, GENEVIEVE McCORMACK, BESSIE CALVIN, PHILIP CONVERS, TOM HOWARD, FLORENCE MOORE, WILLIAM BAILEY and DAVID BARNUM, STERLING BERNEY, Mlle. NATACHA NATTOVA, MARCELLA DONOVAN and the HEMSTREET SINGERS ..... CREDITS: Music and Lyrics by HAROLD LEVEY and OWEN MURPHY; Scenerydesigned byCLARK ROBINSON;Costumes designed by MARK MOORING and CHARLES LeMAIRE; Dances Staged by LARRY CEBALLOS; Ballets arranged by ALEXANDER GABRILOV; Orchestra conducted by ALFRED NEWMAN; Conceived and Staged by HASSARD SHORT; Produced by THE BOHEMIANS, INC...... DETAILS:The six pagepiece of sheet musicmeasures approx. 9\"X 12\" inches andis copyrighted 1927 by Shapiro, Bernstein and Company Inc., New York City ..... CONDITION: With the exception of a name written on the front cover and moderate edge wear, this rare piece of sheet music is in excellent condition andwill make a wonderful addition to the collection of any musical theatre aficionado or historian. This item will be carefully packaged in a protective sleeve and backed by stiff cardboard.
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