The Swing Mikado, Jitterbug Chorus #1
by Science Source
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The Swing Mikado, Jitterbug Chorus #1
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They stop the show every performance. The Jitterbug Chorus Line of the Swing Mikado now playing at the New Yorker Theatre under the auspices of the WPA Federal Theatre Project. The Swing Mikado is a musical theatre adaptation of Gilbert and Sullivan's 1885 comic opera, The Mikado. It featured a setting transposed from Japan to a tropical island. The show was first staged by an all-black company in Chicago, Illinois, in 1938. Later that year, it transferred to Broadway. Other changes from the original work included the re-scoring of five of the musical numbers in swing style, the insertion of popular dance sequences including The Truck and the Cakewalk, and the rewriting of some of the dialogue in an attempt at black dialect. No photographer credited, 1938 (cropped and cleaned).
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