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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 is a 1984 American musical crime drama film co-written and directed by Francis Ford Coppola and based on James Haskins' 1977 book of the same name. The story centers on the Cotton Club , a 1930s Harlem jazz club.
Fannie Mae Duncan. Fannie Mae Duncan (1918-2005) was an African-American entrepreneur, philanthropist, and community activist in Colorado Springs, Colorado.She is best known as the proprietor of the Cotton Club, an early integrated jazz club in Colorado Springs named for the famous club in Harlem.
The Cotton Club of Miami featured a troupe of 48 people, including singer Sallie Blair, George Kirby, Abbey Lincoln, and the dance troupe of Norma Miller. The success of the shows led to the Cotton Club Revue of 1957 which had stops at the Royal Nevada Hotel in Las Vegas, the Theatre Under The Sky in Central Park, Town Casino in Buffalo.
Maurice Hines, Tap Dancer in ‘The Cotton Club,’ Dies at 80. Pat Saperstein. December 30, 2023 at 12:29 PM.
In 2002 Boisseau was the subject of the documentary Cotton Club Girl. [citation needed] The film draws the portrait of her personality showing her current life and memories from the 1930s when she danced in the Cotton Club working with Duke Ellington and Louis Armstrong. Boisseau died May 22, 2012. [1]
In the fall of 1933, Horne joined the chorus line of the Cotton Club in New York City. In the spring of 1934, she had a featured role in the Cotton Club Parade starring Adelaide Hall, who took Lena under her wing. [14] Horne made her first screen appearance as a dancer in the musical short Cab Calloway's Jitterbug Party (1935). [15]
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