Today is the birthday of Will Marion Cook (1869-1944). He was emphatically not a vaudevillian, although there’s nothing about a serious musical training (he studied with Dvorak among others) that would have prevented that. He rates a shout-out here for composing several seminal African American musical theatre shows, many starring important artists like Walker and [...]
SOURCE: Trav S.D. at 10:09AM on January 27, 2012