All Dressed Up with No Place to Go

I was pretty excited to start blogging about my research on the New York Hippodrome. Then COVID-19 hit. I now have two research fellowships (at the Harry Ransom Center and the New York Public Library for the Performing Arts) and no idea when I’ll be able to take them.

In the meantime, I’ve got a good chunk of digitized archival artifacts to review. Some of it’s cool visual materials like this still from Billy Rose’s Jumbo. Some of it’s written, like this script for “Cheer up: a colossal revusical comedy in three cheers.” But all of it is spectacular, understudied, and super exciting.