Talk:A Day in Hollywood / A Night in the Ukraine

plot overview

The description of act 1 is pretty broad and could be more accurate. Currently it says:

"The first act, A Day in Hollywood, a revue of classic Hollywood songs of the 1930s performed by singers and dancers representing ushers from Grauman's Chinese Theatre, features a significant amount of tap dance."

1) It's not really a revue. Most of the music in the first act was written for the show, so only a section of it (the Richard Whiting Medley and Thanks For The Memories) is a revue. 2) There is one tap dance number, and a few other places that might or might not be tap danced, so "features a significant amount of tap dance" doesn't really characterize what the first act is about" either.

Responding to this - revues can indeed feature original music and/or sketches written specifically for the show - all the New Faces revues, for instance, or Berlin's "Music Box" revues and other similar shows of that era - plus others like the Styne/Comden/Green "Two On The Aisle" or more contemporary revues like "Little By Little" or "Scrambled Feet." Or, "The Mad Show" (which featured Sondheim's song "The Boy From..."). And, there are two tap dance numbers - the most famous one is "Doin' The Production Code," but "Famous Feet" also uses tap. I do agree, however, that the phrase "significant amount" is misleading. I'm going to add some edits on the main page to help. 2601:182:CF80:D8A:9C82:8:B71B:B496 (talk) 22:03, 22 October 2017 (UTC)

nothing about the big lawsuit?

It was asserted that this play violated copyrights by mimicking the Marx Brothers characters. I don't know the details but the page ought to have something about it. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2602:306:305F:B560:E10A:62DF:D94D:4D54 (talk) 02:29, 6 September 2016 (UTC)

• I've added a section about that. --Metropolitan90 (talk) 02:43, 26 March 2020 (UTC)

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Not a West End Premiere…

The play didn’t premiere in the West End - it premiered in the New End Theatre, Hampstead, an 80-seater fringe theatre, and only later transferred to the Mayfair Theatre in the West End - “…from ‘New End’ to ‘West End’…”, as Frank Lazarus (who wrote the music, and appeared as the Carlo/ Chico character in both London and on Broadway) says in this interview. Jock123 (talk) 15:24, 1 May 2024 (UTC)