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Hellzapoppin' (band)
Hellzapoppin' can refer to: * ''Hellzapoppin'' (musical), a 1938 musical * ''Hellzapoppin'' (film), a 1941 film * '' Hellzapoppin'', a one-shot 1972 television variety show * ''Hellzapoppin'' (album), a 1992 album by New Zealand band The 3Ds {{disambig ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hellzapoppin (musical)
''Hellzapoppin'' is a musical revue written by the comedy team of Olsen and Johnson, consisting of John "Ole" Olsen and Harold "Chic" Johnson, with music and lyrics by Sammy Fain and Charles Tobias. The revue was a hit, running for over three years, and was at the time the longest-running Broadway musical, with 1,404 performances,Kenrick, JohnHellzapoppin - History of The Musical Stage 1930s: Part III - Revuesmusicals101.com, accessed August 6, 2009 making it one of only three plays to run more than 500 performances in the 1930s. Production After opening at the Shubert Theatre in Boston on September 10, 1938, ''Hellzapoppin'' opened on Broadway at the original 46th Street Theatre on September 22, 1938, transferred to the Winter Garden Theatre on November 26, 1938, and finally moved to the Majestic Theatre on November 25, 1941. It closed on December 17, 1941, after a total of 1,404 performances. Olsen and Johnson led a large cast of entertainers: the comedy team of Barto and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hellzapoppin' (film)
''Hellzapoppin'' is a 1941 film adaptation of '' Hellzapoppin'', the musical that ran on Broadway from 1938 to 1941. It was a production for Universal Pictures directed by H. C. Potter. Although the Broadway cast was initially slated to appear in the film, except for Olsen and Johnson and the Whitey's Lindy Hoppers, no one else from any of the stage productions appeared in the movie. The cast includes Ole Olsen and Chic Johnson, both of whom produced and starred in the Broadway musical, as well as Martha Raye, Mischa Auer, Shemp Howard, Slim and Slam, and Whitey's Lindy Hoppers. The film is fourth wall breaking and full of surreal humour. Plot Shemp Howard begins the film as Louie, the projectionist of a cinema, exhibiting what appears to be the start of a song-and-dance number including classily dressed performers walking down a staircase. The staircase collapses and turns into a slide, conveying the dancers straight to hell, where they are tortured by demons. Ole Olson and C ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
