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...sounds like it was written to stop the show-even without the spectacular dance that accompanies it on stage. But the first "show-stopper" is a medley of three "follies" routines, each performed with geriatric gusto by old time performers Marcie Stringer, Charles Welch, Fifi d'Orsay and Ethel Shutta, who do their numbers separately (the first two as a duet) and then sing them simultaneously as a kind of old timers freak show. On the album the duet ("Rain on the Roof") has been cut entirely. Miss d'Orsay gets about one minute of recording time and Ethel Shutta...
...dimension and life when Prince suggested that the title be changed. "Before, the play was full of action," Prince recalls. "The new script was as close to plotless as you can get." So plotless, in fact, that roles were inserted when socko auditions were delivered by Actresses Ethel Shutta and Fifi d'Orsay?who premiered in 1925 with Gallagher and Shean in the Greenwich Village Follies. They were found subjects as, in a way, was Yvonne De Carlo, who seemed wrong for the role of Phyllis but fit perfectly the rebuilt part of Carlotta, the mantrap. Prince also...
...ETHEL SHUTTA. At 74 she could collect social security. Instead Ethel Shutta (pronounced Shuh-tay) gives her all as the old firecracker who makes Broadway Baby an incendiary number. "I'm the only woman in the cast who remembers Ziegfeld," she says. "In 1925 I was in the Follies as the comedienne." Her song: I'm in Love with Eddie Cantor. When her two sons were attending school at Horace Mann in The Bronx...
While these sour truths seep in, the old Follies girls (De Carlo, Fifi d'Orsay, Mary McCarty) do their thing. Ethel Shutta siphons pure delight out of a number called Broadway Baby and reminds us, as do the others, of how much more verve, authority and presence the older stage professionals possessed than do many of their flaccid present-day counterparts. A campy show might have mocked the old stars, but Follies shows an un-American respect for age by honoring their skill, valiance and tenacity...
...dance steps of two generations, and Jonathan Tunick's orchestrations switch constantly from the Busby Berkeley sound to that of Mahler. Most important of all, the cast is filled with show business old-timers (prominent among them are Alexis Smith, Dorothy Collins, Gene Nelson Yvonne De Carlo, Ethel Shutta, Mary McCarty, Fifi D'Orsay and Ethel Barrymore Coh), all of whom are at once wonderful...