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Animal Crackers

PREMIERE

10/23/1928 — 44th Street Theatre (Broadway)

COMPOSERS

LIBRETTISTS

Bert Kalmar George S. Kaufman Harry Ruby Morrie Ryskind

Skylight Music Theatre
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DATE	TIME	LOCATION
11/01/2005	--	Milwaukee, WI
11/02/2005	--	Milwaukee, WI
11/03/2005	--	Milwaukee, WI
11/04/2005	--	Milwaukee, WI
11/07/2005	--	Milwaukee, WI
11/08/2005	--	Milwaukee, WI
11/09/2005	--	Milwaukee, WI
11/10/2005	--	Milwaukee, WI
11/12/2005	--	Milwaukee, WI
11/13/2005	--	Milwaukee, WI
11/14/2005	--	Milwaukee, WI
11/15/2005	--	Milwaukee, WI
11/16/2005	--	Milwaukee, WI
11/17/2005	--	Milwaukee, WI
11/24/2005	--	Milwaukee, WI
11/25/2005	--	Milwaukee, WI
11/26/2005	--	Milwaukee, WI
11/29/2005	--	Milwaukee, WI
12/01/2005	--	Milwaukee, WI

Synopsis

A stage vehicle for the Marx Brothers. The scene is the Long Island estate of Mrs. Rittenhouse, a wealthy patroness of the arts with a marriageable daughter. Her celebrity weekend guest is the renowned Captain Jeffrey Spaulding, the African Explorer. He arrives with his secretary, Horatio Jameson, followed by pair of musicians": Ravelli and the Professor. What follows is typical Marxian lunacy, involving a stolen painting, a surreal bridge game, a Broadway gossip columnist named Wally Winston, a financial wizard formerly known as Abie the Fish Peddler, and a climatic burlesque of Marie Antoinette and the Three Musketeers.

MOST PRODUCED SINCE 2000
RANK	TITLE	PRODUCTIONS
656	Animal Crackers	1

656	120 Songs for the Marquis de Sade	1
656	4:48 Psychosis	1
656	A Blizzard On Marblehead Neck	1
656	A Capacity for Evil	1
656	A Cask of Amontillado	1
This work ranks as the #328 most produced North American title since 2000.

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