We host a play-reading group that's doing "A Midsummer Night's Dream" in a few weeks, and I've just discovered that among its many musical reinterpretations (Purcell's "Fairie Queen", Mendelssohn, etc.) was a short-lived Broadway musical featuring some jazz royalty which closed after 13 performances in 1939:
>>With performers such as Louis Armstrong, Butterfly McQueen, and the Dandridge Sisters and music by such composers as Count Basie and Benny Goodman, the show looked ready to make the characters from A Midsummer Night’s Dream jitterbug and happy audiences swing in their seats. Unfortunately, the reality was less successful.<<
Is there a recording of this? I gather it's not Kiss Me Kate or West Side Story, but I'd sure be interesting in hearing it!
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