The Will Rogers Follies: A Life In Revue
Music
Japanese television broadcast of the Tony award-winning musical.
The Will Rogers Follies is a musical with a book by Peter Stone, lyrics by Betty Comden and Adolph Green, and music by Cy Coleman. It focuses on the life and career of famed humorist and performer Will Rogers, using as a backdrop the Ziegfeld Follies, which he often headlined, and describes every episode in his life in the form of a big production number. The Rogers character also performs rope tricks in between scenes. The revue contains snippets of Rogers' famous homespun style of wisdom and common sense and tries to convey the personality of this quintessentially American figure whose most famous quote was "I never met a man I didn't like."
1993-11-26
en
Cast
Director
Walter C. Miller
Keith Carradine as Will Rogers
Dee Hoty as Betty Blake
Dick Latessa as Clem Rogers
Cady Huffman as Mr. Ziegfeld's Favorite
Gregory Peck as Mr. Ziegfeld (voice)
Jerry Mitchell as Will Rogers Wrangler/Indian Of The Dawn
Luba Mason as New Ziegfeld Girl
Jillana Laufer as New Ziegfeld Girl
Rick Faugno as Will Rogers, Jr.
Tammy Minoff as Mary Rogers