2/12/2023 0 Comments Marx brothers youtube![]() ![]() ![]() The need to have a group of dancers who resemble their own great-grandmothers comes about because the enterprise at hand is a revival of a twenties musical-and not even so much a revival, in the manner of the current “Shuffle Along,” as a full-scale, quixotic reconstruction, as improbable in ambition as the remaking of a Giganotosaurus skeleton from two shin bones and a tooth worn down by time, of the lost 1924 Marx Brothers musical “I’ll Say She Is.” Having opened in May of that high Jazz Age year at the Moorish Revival-style Casino Theatre, to rapturous reviews-one in particular, from Alexander Woollcott, more or less made the brothers’ reputation-the show closed the following February (a fine run for the time), never to be seen onstage again. Matt Walters, Matt Roper, Noah Diamond, and Seth Shelden are Zeppo, Chico, Groucho, and Harpo in a new revival of the Marx Brothers’ lost musical, “I’ll Say She Is.” Photograph by Mark X.
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