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Florenz Ziegfeld

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Noun1.Florenz Ziegfeld - United States theatrical producer noted for a series of extravagant revues known as the Ziegfeld Follies (1869-1932)


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Florenz Ziegfeld hired the great Bert Williams for the otherwise all-white Follies of 1910, inviting the audience to commiserate with a black man's misery in Williams's signature rendition of "Me and My Shadow.
That concept has been reflected time and again in the show tunes of the New York theater and is the central theme of ``Broadway: The American Musical,'' a six-part PBS documentary series that starts with the arrival of showman supreme Florenz Ziegfeld and spans 110 years to the opening of the smash hit of the 2003 season, ``Wicked.
Josef Urban had a large hand in much of the interior designs and worked with Florenz Ziegfeld when that impresario hosted his famous Ziegfeld Follies at the New Amsterdam from 1913 to his death in 1932.
 
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