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The Cotton Club Gala, which featured some of the club's original dancers, was produced at La MaMa Experimental Theatre Club twice in 1975 [43] [44] and again in 1985. The 1985 production was directed by La MaMa founder Ellen Stewart. [45] La MaMa also toured Europe with the Cotton Club Gala in 1976. [46]
The Cotton Club Boys were African American chorus line entertainers who, from 1934, performed class act dance routines in musical revues produced by the Cotton Club until 1940, when the club closed, then as part of Cab Calloway's revue on tour through 1942.
Lena Mary Calhoun Horne (June 30, 1917 – May 9, 2010) was an American singer, actress, dancer and civil rights activist. Horne's career spanned more than seventy years and covered film, television and theatre. Horne joined the chorus of the Cotton Club at the age of sixteen and became a nightclub performer before moving on to Hollywood and ...
Cabell Calloway III (December 25, 1907 – November 18, 1994) was an American jazz singer and bandleader.He was a regular performer at the Cotton Club in Harlem, where he became a popular vocalist of the swing era.
At a young age, she began performing in the Cotton Club, located in Harlem. During the 1920s the Harlem Renaissance occurred. [ 3 ] The Harlem Renaissance was an eruption of artistic, social, and intellectual life, often referred to as the golden age of African American Culture in Central Manhattan.
In the early 1930s Boisseau began performing at the Cotton Club, a night club in New York that featured numerous well-known African American jazz musicians and entertainers from 1923 to 1940, through the Prohibition era. [citation needed] She was often on the stage with Ethel Waters, the Nicholas Brothers, Eubie Blake, Noble Sisle, and Lena ...
She and her dance partner, Harold Norton, were one of the first African American ballroom teams and were known professionally as “Norton and Margot”. Webb and Norton toured through the East and Midwest United States and parts of Europe — including France, Italy, and Germany — with the Cotton Club Revue and the Continental Variety show ...
Leon Dunkins Claxton (April 5, 1902 – November 14, 1967) was an American vaudeville performer turned producer who led the revue Harlem in Havana, which was staged for several decades and was a feature at the traveling Royal American Shows. [1] [2] [3] An African American, his show featured black performers during the segregation era, and he ...