This is a rare piece of sheet music for the song "TOO TIRED" featured by BROOKS and ROSS in the Original Broadway production of the Sixth Annual New York Latin Quarter Revusical Comedy "THE GREENWICH VILLAGE FOLLIES" at New York's Winter Garden Theatre. (The production opened September 16th, 1924 and ran for 127 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 theatre 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 theatre. 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 Sixth Edition featured MIKHAIL MORDKIN, CHARLES MACK and GEORGE MORAN (known as the "TWO BLACK CROWS", who have the dubious distinction of being the last major blackface team to work in vaudeville), GEORGE CHRISTIE, GEORGE RASELY, JOHN SHEEHAN, AMERICA CHEDISTER, ETHEL DAVIS, ROSALIE CLAIRE, GENE COLLINS, DON BARCLAY, BUD WILLIAMSON, DOROTHY NEVILLE, ROBERT ALTON, BOBBE ARNST, the DOLLY SISTERS, GEORGIE HALE, VINCENT LOPEZ and JULIA SILVERS ..... CREDITS: This Song by GEORGE A. LITTLE, ARTHUR SIZEMORE and LARRY SHAY; Most Music by COLE PORTER ("Anything Goes", "Red, Hot and Blue", "Leave It To Me!", "Du Barry Was a Lady", "Let's Face It!", "Panama Hattie", "Something For the Boys", "Mexican Hayride", "Can-Can", "Kiss Me Kate", "Out Of This World", "Silk Stockings"); Lyrics by COLE PORTER, IRVING CAESAR and JOHN MURRAY ANDERSON; Choreographed by JACK MANNING; Staged by JOHN MURRAY ANDERSON; Produced by THE BOHEMIANS, INC., A. L. JONES and MORRIS GREEN ..... DETAILS: The six page piece of sheet music measures approx. 9" X 12" inches and is copyrighted 1924 by Broadway Music Corporation, New York City ..... CONDITION: (Please Note!) The front and back covers are detached at the seam, there is a small chip in the outside edge of the front cover, light soiling to the back cover and moderate edge wear. Despite these flaws, this rare piece of sheet music 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.