1930'S BROADWAY

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The Great Depression affected theatre audiences on both sides of the Atlantic, because people had little money to spend on entertainment. Many shows continued the lighthearted song-and-dance style of the 1920's

POPULAR SHOWS OF THE 1930S

• The Band Wagon-1931
• Anything Goes- 1934
• On Your Toes- 1936
• Babes In Arms- 1937
• The Boys From Syracuse- 1938

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A young man falls in love with a beautiful blonde. When he sees her being forced onto a luxury liner, he decides to follow her. However, he discovers that she in an English heiress who ran away from her home and is now being returned to England. He also discovers that his boss is on the ship. To avoid discovery he disguises himself as the gangster accomplice of a minister, who is actually a gangster on the run from the law.

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ORIGINAL CAST

• Ethel Mermen- Reno Sweeney
• William Gaxton- Billy Crocker
• Victor Moore- Moonface Martin

REVIVALS

• 1962
• 1987
• 2011- w/ Sutton Foster

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Identical twins Antipholus of Ephesus and Antipholus of Syracuse, were separated from each other in a shipwreck as young children. Their servants, both named Dromio, are also long-separated identical twins. When the pair from Syracuse come to Ephesus, a comedy of errors and mistaken identities ensues when the wives of the Ephesians, Adriana and her servant Luce, mistake the two strangers for their husbands. Adriana's sister Luciana and the Syracuse Antipholus fall in love. But all ends happily.

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ORIGINAL CAST

• Eddie Albert- Antipholous from Syracuse
• Ronald Graham- Antipholous from Ephesus
• Teddy Hart- Dromio from Ephesus
• Jimmy Savo- Dromio from Syracuse

REVIVALS

• 1963