The Ziegfeld Follies of the Air
Premiere Broadcast
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The Ziegfeld Follies of the Air brings the spirit of Florenz Ziegfeld’s celebrated stage revues to radio. The program draws on the Follies tradition of musical entertainment, presenting a variety-show experience rather than a single continuing story.
Listeners can expect a mix of music and comic entertainment shaped for broadcast, with the revue format offering a succession of performances and changes in mood. Its connection to the Ziegfeld name places it in the world of polished popular entertainment associated with lavish theatrical spectacle, adapted here for an audience listening at home.
The result is a period variety program with a theatrical sensibility: lively, performance-centered, and built around the pleasures of songs and stage-style entertainment carried by radio.
This recording is part of the Old Time Radio collection.