Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The show closely followed the outline of 42nd Street, in which a naive kid from the sticks stumbles into a birthing Broadway show, ...

Just two years after Susan Sontag wrote her 1964 essay “Notes on Camp,” the musical “Dames at Sea” opened at the tiny Manhattan cabaret Caffé Cino. The so-bad-it’s-good aesthetic had been given a name ...

As soon as movies began to talk, they started to sing, and to dance. Finally, music and dance could be recorded together in sync for exhibition to mass audiences and preserved for future generations.

Reimagining the Busby Berkeley-era extravaganza in miniature, the 1968 off-Broadway hit shuffles uptown with its perky homage to 1930s movie musicals. By David Rooney Chief Film Critic Whether there’s ...

Dames At Sea first premiered off-off-Broadway in 1966, eventually transferring off-Broadway. The musical send-up of Busby Berkeley-style movie musicals of the ’30s never played Broadway – until now.

The classic films of director and choreographer Busby Berkeley often featured hundreds of dancers performing routines for Broadway musicals that could never fit on a real stage. But "Dames at Sea," ...

No need for extras on these two boxed sets from the TCM Greatest Classic Films Collection. Just enjoy the movies. Included in the Berkeley musicals are "Dames," "Gold Diggers of 1937," "Footlight ...

The going line on “Dames at Sea” is that it satirizes the Busby Berkeley musicals of the 1930s — those sprawling spectacles that mustered scads of dancers into figures of geometric perfection. If that ...