The Little Revue
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The Little Revue was an early broadcast television series, which ran on the ABC
network
from 1949-1950.
The program broadcast music performers and other variety show
elements. It was first broadcast on September 4, 1949, and stayed on Sunday evenings until March 1950, where it moved to Friday evenings. Its last performance was on April 21, 1950.
Regular performers included:
American Broadcasting Company
The American Broadcasting Company is an American commercial broadcasting television network. Created in 1943 from the former NBC Blue radio network, ABC is owned by The Walt Disney Company and is part of Disney-ABC Television Group. Its first broadcast on television was in 1948...
network
Television network
A television network is a telecommunications network for distribution of television program content, whereby a central operation provides programming to many television stations or pay TV providers. Until the mid-1980s, television programming in most countries of the world was dominated by a small...
from 1949-1950.
The program broadcast music performers and other variety show
Variety show
A variety show, also known as variety arts or variety entertainment, is an entertainment made up of a variety of acts, especially musical performances and sketch comedy, and normally introduced by a compère or host. Other types of acts include magic, animal and circus acts, acrobatics, juggling...
elements. It was first broadcast on September 4, 1949, and stayed on Sunday evenings until March 1950, where it moved to Friday evenings. Its last performance was on April 21, 1950.
Regular performers included:
- Nancy Doran and Dick France
- Nancy EvansNancy EvansNancy Evans OBE was an English mezzo-soprano who had a notable career as a concert and opera singer. She is particularly associated with Benjamin Britten who wrote his song cycle, A Charm of Lullabies, and the role of Nancy in his opera Albert Herring for her.-Biography:Evans was born in Liverpool...
- Billy Johnson
- Dick Larkin
- Bill Sherry
- Gloria Van
- The Bill Weber marionetteMarionetteA marionette is a puppet controlled from above using wires or strings depending on regional variations. A marionette's puppeteer is called a manipulator. Marionettes are operated with the puppeteer hidden or revealed to an audience by using a vertical or horizontal control bar in different forms...
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