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Marquee for Amateur Night at the Apollo. Amateur Night was first hosted in 1934 [284] [367] or 1935 [32] [245] and has been hosted nearly continuously since then, except from the 1970s to 1985. [23] [368] Schiffman had introduced an amateur night at the Lafayette Theater, where Ralph Cooper had hosted Harlem Amateur Hour; [34] Cooper hosted the ...
Filmed at the Apollo Theater in Harlem, the show features live performances from both professional and up-and-coming artists, and also features the Amateur Night competition. In many cities such as New York (where it aired on WNBC ), it often aired after Saturday Night Live during the late Saturday night/early Sunday morning hours, and was ...
Cooper is best known as the original master of ceremonies and founder of amateur night at the Apollo Theater in Harlem, New York City, in 1935. He wrote, produced, directed and acted in ten motion pictures. Titles include The Duke Is Tops, Dark Manhattan, Gangsters on the Loose and Gang War. Because of his debonair good looks, he was known as ...
View the 34 images of this gallery on the original article. American Idol Photos! See All 17 Acts Auditioning on Night 2. Abi Carter, 21 Indio, CA Singer Song: “What Was I Made For” by Billie ...
It is the final night of auditions for America’s Got Talent before judges Simon Cowell, Howie Mandel, Heidi Klum and Sofia Vergara will make the judges cuts as to which of the acts that got at ...
View the 33 images of this gallery on the original article. American Idol Photos! See All 16 Acts Auditioning on Night 4. Anna Grace, 18 Pembroke, NC College Student. Alyssa Raghu, 22 Orlando, FL
As a child performer, Carpenter had her own radio show on WNYC in New York and won an amateur night at the Apollo Theatre in 1938, where she would be honored and perform nearly 60 years later on the 1993 all-star NBC-TV special Apollo Theater Hall of Fame, hosted by Bill Cosby. [2]
The Apollo Theatre was a Broadway theatre whose entrance was located at 223 West 42nd Street in Manhattan, New York City, while the theatre proper was on 43rd Street. It was demolished in 1996 and provided part of the site for the new Ford Center for the Performing Arts, now known as the Lyric Theatre .