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…FOLLIES’ pre-Broadway tryout at the Colonial Theatre. There the new musical would experience “four intense weeks,” as Ted Chapin described them in his magnificent 2003 book EVERYTHING WAS POSSIBLE: The…

…John Denver – didn’t keep to his plans to 1) write the music; 2) write the lyrics; 3) and star in The Will Rogers Follies (1991). Had he come through,…

…FOLLIES had a (terrific) number called “The Big Time” with a lyric, “Hello, I’m Mary Rogers.” No, it didn’t have the “d,” but it was close enough for my purposes….

…Broadway shows, including two ZIEGFELD FOLLIES, so THE WILL ROGERS FOLLIES would be a natural. (And, oh, that “Hooray for Our Favorite Son” number!) The RMS Titanic only saw a…

…of THE WILL ROGERS FOLLIES, comes on the page where Lane gives us the reason why Tommy Tune wanted the musical in the Palace: “Because Rogers was a Ziegfeld star,…