The Little Show

A series of intimate revues presented on Broadway in 1929, 1930, and 1931, the first edition featured songs by Arthur Schwartz, Howard Dietz, and others, and sketches by Dietz and George S. Kaufman. The first revue starred Fred Allen, Clifton Webb, and Libby Holman, and the hit songs “I Guess I'll Have to Change My Plan” and “Moanin' Low.” The final edition starred Beatrice Lillie and Ernest Truex and offered “Mad Dogs and Englishmen,” “When Yuba Plays the Rhumba on the Tuba,” and “There Are Fairies at the Bottom of My Garden.” The first offering established the Broadway careers of Dietz and Schwartz and introduced an era of superlative revues in the 1930s.