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What was The Cotton Club Revue?
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Nicholas Brothers
The Nicholas Brothers in Orchestra Wives (1942).
The Cotton Club Revue was a musical variety show that featured the Nicholas Brothers performing alongside bandleader and singer Cab Calloway in the early 1940s.1
The production was associated with the legacy of the Cotton Club, a legendary Harlem nightclub that served as a springboard for prominent Black entertainers. While the original club was famous for its nightly revues featuring a renowned chorus line and house bands like those of Duke Ellington and Calloway, the Cotton Club Revue variety show extended this tradition of performance into the 1940s.21