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The Will Rogers Follies: A Life In Revue

The Will Rogers Follies: A Life In Revue

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Status

Released

Release Date

Nov 26, 1993

Runtime

2h 24m

Genres

Music

Original Title

The Will Rogers Follies: A Life In Revue

Production Companies

Japan Satellite Broadcasting, Arca Media, Pierre Cossette Enterprises

Director

Walter C. Miller

Description

The Will Rogers Follies is a 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."