Palm Springs Follies
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Follies Season in the California Desert begins in November
The 21st Season of the Palm Springs Follies is 2011.
The performances feature music,dance,and comedy of the 40s,50s and 60s. The show girls on the stage range in age from 56 to 86. Various headliners also appear. Rita Coolidge was the guest star for Season 19.
The Palm Springs Follies was recognized as the 37th Senate District Small Business of the Year for 2007. It was cofounded by Riff Markowitz and Mary Jardin. Performances are at the historic Plaza Theatre. Riff Markowitz is the impresario.
The London Times: "Follies is a variety of song, burlesque, lots of legs and sequined costumes. A slick, professional extravaganza."
Link List
- Official Palm Springs Follies Website
- For the most fun to be had in Palm Springs. If you are an old trooper,the page has instructions on how to audition. This may be the job your are looking for after retirement. But you have to keep up your tap dancing and your time steps. Cast members have had some of these prior jobs: USO precision dancer, Rockette,Follies Bergere dancer,Disney dancer.
Click here to find out about showtimes and tickets. - Who Said Burlesque was Out
- From Los Angeles Times
- Palm Springs Biplane
- You have an opportunity here to ride in a 1940's biplane. Your trip will be complete with old aviation to match the old performers.
- Sophie Tucker
- This lens has fantastic heritage sheet music covers! All about the last of the Red Hot Mamas.
- Don Diego's
- There are an extraordinary number of good restaurants in the Coachella Valley. Stop here in Indian Wells for Happy Hour,chili Rellenos,and Sopapilla deserts(little pillows). Be prepared for music when you click.
- More About the content of the show.
- Describes the jokes and the parking by the theatre.
The Time Steps - Singles Doubles Triples
Hoofers Know About These
"In tap, the common time steps are classified as single, double and triple. The basic rhythm and tempo remain the same but the number of sounds that happen on the second and sixth count of an eight-count phrase denotes single (often a single step) double (usually a flap or slap-tap) or triple (commonly shuffle-step). While these are the universal time steps, dancers often choose to create their own time steps, following the pattern two bars repeated three times with a two bar break." ..... wikipedia
If you ever learn the time steps, the combinations will likely never leave your head.
Here is one: Shuffle-hop-step-a flap step.
And Another: Shuffle-hop-shuffle-step-a-flap-step.
"Hot Hot Hot"
Check the Follies schedule for the season Guest Star appearance times.
John Davidson
Maureen McGovern
The Diamonds
Amazon
The Tradition of Ziegfeld
Humor from the Age of Burlesque
Jokes!
Since the 1880s, the comedic situations were that of working class adults. Some routines made fun of nepotism in law firms and quackery in medicine.
What did the Jewish mother ask her daughter when the daughter told her she had had an affair? ``Who catered it?'' Alan King
My wife and I went to a hotel where we got a waterbed. My wife called it the Dead Sea.
"Congress: Bingo with Billions."
Red Skelton
"Secretary: It must be hard to lose your mother-in-law.
WC: Yes,it is very hard. It's almost impossible."
WC Fields
"We grew together. I grew up. She grew sideways."
Milton Berle
"She got her looks from her father. He's a plastic surgeon"
Groucho Marx.
Amazon - what you might see while attending the Follies
Guides
Tninking About the Follies
From the Web
eBay - Be a performer in your own house
Table of Contents
- YouTube
- Link List
- YouTube
- The Time Steps - Singles Doubles Triples
- "Hot Hot Hot"
- Amazon
- Humor from the Age of Burlesque
- Amazon - what you might see while attending the Follies
- Tninking About the Follies
- Check out the Web Cam before you begin your journey
- Discover Palm Springs
- eBay - Be a performer in your own house
- Guestbook Comments
Guestbook Comments
Thanks for shuffling by....
Hope you made it by the sentinel windmills on the energy farms....
Have you attended any of the performances of the Palm Springs Follies? Chatted with any of the cast?
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Jack-in-the-Box
Mar 26, 2012 @ 10:47 pm | delete
- What a fun lens! I have never heard of the Palm Springs Follies, but it looks like so much fun.
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CCGAL Mar 26, 2012 @ 9:25 pm | delete
- I've visited Palm Springs numerous times, but I have to admit I knew nothing of the Palm Springs Follies until I happened across this lens. Amazing videos! This was a delight to read and watch, and I am looking forward to my next visit to Palm Springs. Perhaps I will arrive at a time when I can attend the Follies. I hope so!
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BOBBI GERVAIS WOOTZOOM
Mar 27, 2012 @ 12:13 pm | delete
- YES WE WILL. I HAVE BEEN TWICE, AND READY TO GO AS MANY TIMES AS I CAN.
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odetty
Feb 18, 2012 @ 5:46 pm | delete
- Thanks for visiting my lens! Lived in L.A. for 24 years before returning to Arkansas to assist elderly parents. Weekend visits to Palm Springs are sorely missed. Is the Huesso Gallery still there? I have an A/P print on my wall of three blind cats entitled "In Search of Three Blind Mice."
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OhMe Feb 15, 2012 @ 11:35 pm | delete
- The Palm Springs Follies looks like great fun!
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Tipi
Oct 21, 2011 @ 11:29 pm | delete
- Talk about a great fitness routine, the Palm Springs Follies is pure fun. I haven't been to a live performance or chatted with any of the cast but I sure would like to!
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Mark Gascoigne
Oct 15, 2011 @ 7:00 pm | delete
- It is clear that most of the Follies peole have a leg up on other people their age.
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