Folies Bergeres and Ziegfeld Follies

The music hall known as the Folies Bergere was established in 1869 Paris and still operates today. The height of its popularity lasted from the 1890s through the 1920s. It originally opened as an opera house, but switched gears and started catering to popular tastes in 1872. Shows included scantily clad girls and played up Parisian fascination with exoticism and negritude.





Ziegfeld Follies were a series of elaborate theatrical productions on Broadway that ran from 1907 through 1931. Conceived by Florenz Ziegfeld, the Follies were revues inspired by Paris's Folies Bergere. Entertainers like Josephine Baker and and Fanny Brice appeared in the shows. Costumes for the famous Ziegfeld chorus girls were made by such designers as Erte and Lady Duff Gordon.







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