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Inaugural show of the new Rivertown Repertory Theatre main stage. This glitsy musical wowed local audiences and set a high bar for local community theatre in New Orleans. The show was directed and choreographed by the multi-talented Alton Geno. Musical direction was provided by the equally talented Brandt Blocker.
The Will Rogers Follies is a Tony Award-winning musical with a book by Peter Stone, lyrics by Betty Comden and Adolph Green, and music by Cy Coleman.
It focuses on the life and career of famed humorist and performer Will Rogers, using as a backdrop the Ziegfeld Follies, which he often ...Read More
Inaugural show of the new Rivertown Repertory Theatre main stage. This glitsy musical wowed local audiences and set a high bar for local community theatre in New Orleans. The show was directed and choreographed by the multi-talented Alton Geno. Musical direction was provided by the equally talented Brandt Blocker.
The Will Rogers Follies is a Tony Award-winning musical with a book by Peter Stone, lyrics by Betty Comden and Adolph Green, and music by Cy Coleman.
It focuses on the life and career of famed humorist and performer Will Rogers, using as a backdrop the Ziegfeld Follies, which he often headlined, and describes every episode in his life in the form of a big production number. The Rogers character also performs rope tricks in between scenes. The revue contains snippets of Rogers' famous homespun style of wisdom and common sense and tries to convey the personality of this quintessentially American figure whose most famous quote was "I never met a man I didn't like."
Song list
Act I
Will-a-Mania
Give a Man Enough Rope
It's a Boy!
So Long Pa
My Unknown Someone
The Big Time
My Big Mistake
The Powder Puff Ballet
Marry Me Now
Without You
Act II
Give a Man Enough Rope (Reprise)
Favorite Son
No Man Left For Me
Presents for Mrs. Rogers
Will-a-Mania (Reprise)
Without You (Reprise)
Never Met a Man I Didn't Like
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