This is a rare piece of sheet music for the song "MARIMBA" (A South American Episode) introduced by FRANK CRUMIT in the Second Annual Revusical Comedy "THE GREENWICH VILLAGE FOLLIES" at the Greenwich Village Theatre in New York City. (The production opened August 30th, 1920 at the Greenwich Village Theatre, transferred to the Sam S. Shubert Theatre on September 20th, 1920 and ran for 217 performances.) ..... The Greenwich Village Theatre was located between Christopher Street and West Fourth Street across from Sheridan Square. The theatre opened as a neighborhood playhouse in November of 1917 and was built by Maguerite Abbott Barker. The first shows were so good that they attracted uptown audiences downtown in droves. The one thing responsible for putting the theater on the map was "THE GREENWICH VILLAGE FOLLIES", a "Revusical Comedy of New York's Latin Quarter", invented and produced for the stage by JOHN MURRAY ANDERSON. In these Pre and Post World War One days, the lavish Broadway playhouses competed with more and more money to stage the biggest and most dazzling shows. Murray had no money, but all the talent he needed to create the very concept of the intimate revue of New York City. The first "Follies" of Greenwich Village opened in July of 1919. It wasn't long before a "Sold Out" sign hung in the box office window. After a six week run the show moved uptown to Broadway, which no other Village production had ever managed to do before. A second "Follies" was spun by Anderson for the 1920 season, and like the first, it also moved to a Broadway house. From then on the "Follies" became a Broadway only production and renewed itself annually throughout the 1920's. (Reprinted in part from the Greenwich Village Gazette website) ..... The cast included FRANK CRUMIT, ANNA MAE CLIFF, MONA CELETE, MARGARET DAVIES, HARRIET GIMBEL, HOWARD MARSH, PEE WEE MEYERS, FORD HANFORD, CONSTANCE and IRENE FARBER, FLORENCE BROWNE, BERT SAVOY, MAURICE QUINLIVAN, MARY LEWIS, OLIVE BROWER, JAMES CLEMONS, BERNICE ELMORE, DOROTHY SRNOLD, ALDEN GAY, DORIS GREEN, VERA CARLETON, DELORES EDWARDS, HARRIET TATOR and JAY BRENNAN ..... CREDITS: Music by A. BALDWIN SLOANE; Book by THOMAS J. GRAY; Lyrics by JOHN MURRAY ANDERSON and ARTHUR SWANSTROM; This song by JOHNNY BLACK, HOWARD JOHNSON and CLIFF HESS; Scenery and Costumes designed by ROBERT LOCHER and JAMES REYNOLDS; Directed by JOHN MURRAY ANDERSON; Produced by THE BOHEMIANS, INC. ..... DETAILS: The oversized six page piece of sheet music measures approx. 9 1/8" X 12 1/8" inches, has wonderful cover graphics and is copyrighted 1920 by Leo Feist, Inc., New York City ..... CONDITION: With the exception of a personal stamp on the cover, bleeding to the cover and inside pages and moderate edge wear, this rare piece of sheet music is in excellent condition and will make a wonderful addition to the collection of any musical theatre aficionado or historian. This item will be carefully packaged in a protective sleeve and backed by stiff cardboard.

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