Darktown Follies

The Darktown Follies, originally staged as My Friend from Kentucky in 1913, is an American musical revue comedy that debuted in 1914. It has 3 acts.[1][2] It premiered in 1913 at the Lafayette Theatre in Harlem, New York City. It brought the Ballin' the Jack dance and the Texas Tommy (a predecessor of the lindy hop) to a New York City stage and its success influenced musicals that followed.[3]

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References
  1. Peterson, Bernard L. (1993). A Century of Musicals in Black and White: An Encyclopedia of Musical Stage Works By, About, Or Involving African Americans. Greenwood Publishing Group. pp. 99–101. ISBN 978-0-313-26657-7.
  2. Malone, Jacqui (1996). Steppin' on the Blues: The Visible Rhythms of African American Dance. University of Illinois Press. pp. 73–74. ISBN 978-0-252-06508-8.
  3. Templeton, Melissa (2016), "Darktown Follies (Lafayette Theatre, Harlem, 1913)", Routledge Encyclopedia of Modernism (1st ed.), London: Routledge, doi:10.4324/9781135000356-rem991-1, ISBN 978-1-135-00035-6, retrieved 2021-08-06


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