Jolson & Co.
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Opened Nov 23, 1999
Closed Jan 2, 2000
Opened Nov 23, 1999
Closed Jan 2, 2000
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The York Theatre Company presents a musical play based on the life of performing legend Al Jolson. The musical opens with a 1949 radio interview of Jolson at the Winter Garden Theatre. Through a series of flashbacks, we get to view his professional and personal relationships. Jolson's accomplishments as an entertainer are unprecedented, from The Jazz Singer to the forming of the USO, his influence on popular culture was enormous. "Sonny Boy", "You Made Me Love You", and "Swanee" are just a few Jolson classics performed during this wonderful evening.-dlm
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Al Jolson had quite a life. The son of a Lithuanian cantor, Jolson, born Asa Yoelson, became the most famous and successful entertainer of his day -- a man known as "The World's Greatest Entertainer" and "The Magic Man" who brought a fierce spirit to his singing and acting that audiences, in the early decades of the 1900s, had never seen or heard before. Jolson made the Winter Garden Theatre on Broadway his second home with a run of musical smash hits between 1913 and 1924 that included Bombo, Sinbad, The Honeymoon Express, Robinson Crusoe, Jr., The Whirl of Society, Big Boy, and Wonder Bar. He also toured the country from Boston to Los Angeles, playing to sold-out houses, starred in t[...]