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No posts with label Featured in the hit musical "GENESIS TO BROADWAY" Written & Directed by FRANK HOWSON. Musical Director & Concept by WARREN WILLS. BERT WILLIAMS became the first black superstar of Broadway. W.C. Fields once described him as “The funniest man I ever saw - and the saddest man I ever knew.” Being a black star in America at this time was a sobering contradiction. Bert Williams would appear to adoring standing room only audiences in theatres, but after the show would find it near impossible to be served in a bar or a restaurant. On one occasion, the sophisticated Mr. Williams went to a bar and asked for a whiskey on ice. The bartender said, “That’ll be a hundred dollars!” Williams, without flinching replied, “Then I’ll have four.”. Show all posts
No posts with label Featured in the hit musical "GENESIS TO BROADWAY" Written & Directed by FRANK HOWSON. Musical Director & Concept by WARREN WILLS. BERT WILLIAMS became the first black superstar of Broadway. W.C. Fields once described him as “The funniest man I ever saw - and the saddest man I ever knew.” Being a black star in America at this time was a sobering contradiction. Bert Williams would appear to adoring standing room only audiences in theatres, but after the show would find it near impossible to be served in a bar or a restaurant. On one occasion, the sophisticated Mr. Williams went to a bar and asked for a whiskey on ice. The bartender said, “That’ll be a hundred dollars!” Williams, without flinching replied, “Then I’ll have four.”. Show all posts
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