The Sondheim revues work as well as they do because so often the songs are inherently dramatic, almost playlets in their own right. |
The Shuberts, theater owners and producers, offered a series of revues called Artists and Models. |
These were made at a time when her style had matured, so it is not easy to appreciate how she would have performed them in the revues. |
She made her debut dancing with Anton Dolin's company in London in 1929, performing balletic interludes in revues at the Coliseum. |
It also offered popular education and supplied entertainment which drew on theatre, the revues, music, and cinema. |
Never having seen this Russian clown-show before, I was also struck by how much it resembled the revues of my youth. |