The Will Rogers Follies: A Life In Revue (1993)
Music
Overview
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."
Cast
- 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)
- Vince Bruce as The Roper
- Jerry Mitchell as Will Rogers Wrangler/Indian Of The Dawn
- John Ganun as Will Rogers Wrangler
- Troy Britton Johnson as Will Rogers Wrangler
- Jason Opsahl as Will Rogers Wrangler