About the Book
Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 87. Chapters: A... My Name Is Alice, Alive and Kicking (musical), American Composer Series, And the World Goes 'Round, An Evening with Jerry Herman, As Thousands Cheer, At Home Abroad, At the Drop of a Hat, A Grand Night for Singing, A Night in Spain, A Party with Betty Comden and Adolph Green, A Thurber Carnival, Back to Bacharach and David, Beach Blanket Babylon, Beatlemania (musical), Beyond the Fringe, Black Velvet (revue), Boobs! The Musical, Bright Lights of 1944, Cambridge Footlights Revue, Capping Show, Dream (musical), Excitante, Flying Colors (musical), Foxy Ladies Love/Boogie 70's Explosion, Fresh Airs, From A to Z, Hellzapoppin (musical), Hitchy-Koo, Infinite Joy, Inside U.S.A., In At The Death, Jerry's Girls, John Murray Anderson's Almanac, Keep Off the Grass, La Chauve-Souris, Lena Horne: The Lady and Her Music, Lend an Ear, Life Begins at 8:40, London Calling!, Medleys, University of Melbourne Medical Revue, Miss 1917, New Faces of 1952, Nuts and Wine, Oh! Calcutta!, Pins and Needles, Putting It Together, Set to Music, Showtune (musical), Smokey Joe's Cafe, Sondheim on Sondheim, Songwriters on Parade, Svea hund, Sweet and Low (musical), The Band Wagon (musical), The Billy Barnes Revue, The Co-Optimists, The Garrick Gaieties, The Little Show, The Look of Love (musical), The Mad Show, The Second Little Show, Tickets, Please!, Two's Company (musical), Two for the Show (musical), Two on the Aisle, Walk a Little Faster, Wild Side Story, Words and Music (musical), Ziegfeld Follies of 1936. Excerpt: Wild Side Story is a stage show that originated as an underground happening in Miami Beach, Florida in 1973. From that year until the end of production in 2004, it was performed hundreds of times in Florida, Sweden, California and Spain. This cult stage show was first conceived and created in Miami Beach in 1972 by director Lars Jacob for an underground cast of nine poorly paid performers who were in it for the kicks, using stage names such as Rena Del Rio, Peaches Del Monte, Chiena Chinette, Jessica Kilo, Tom Flavio, Crystal Beed and Aretha Filthy so as not to disclose their actual identities. Most were young Cuban refugees. One exception was Roxanne Russell who eventually achieved national notoriety and began to use his real name Logan Carter. Late night snapshot of Del Rio, Carter, Del Monte with Tony Del Valle, Tampa, April 27, 1974.The piece was originally called West Side Tuna because of their preceding highly charismatic, but theatrically needy production, The Hot Tuna Revue, in which, as Del Rio later admitted, "We were just giving faces." It opened officially as Wild Side Story on August 8, 1973. Original cast at Ambassador III in 1973Moved two blocks up 22nd Street the following month by club owner Larry Boxx, from the shady old Ambassador III lounge to his brand new Stonewall disco, Wild Side Story reopened there on September 3, 1973, closer to a popular public beach. It now established itself as albeit bizarre but exciting after-midnight entertainment for more diverse crowds. Many were young tourists who would not have planned to go to a gay bar and now saw transvestite characters on stage (and some in the room) for the very first time. The move also brought a revamp of the cast of characters, partly and loosely built on those of West Side Story, with Jacob henceforth casting real girls in leading parts "Anita" and "Betty-Sue." One supporting part continued to call for a female to play a meretricious male gang member called "Macho," which was a first eve
