Broadway History: The Princess Musicals, Bigger Was NOT Better
…s musical comedies, the shows sacrificed story, character and any sense of reality for jokes, comic bits and big musical numbers. When the theatre was failing, it was Marbury who was enlisted to change its fortune. She was charged with booking the struggling venue. She had a brilliant idea. It was to contact Jerome Kern and basically offer him the space as a place where he could launch new musicals. Kern, who had started as a song plugger on Tin P…