A piano-playing gorilla in a gold tuxedo. A shower of rubber spiders. Those might not represent typical lessons in theater history, yet they're exactly that in "Hellzapoppin," the American Century Theater's antic reconstruction of Ole Olsen and Chic Johnson's celebrated 1938 revue. -
'Hellzapoppin' in Arlington: Well, That's Show Business
A piano-playing gorilla in a gold tuxedo. A shower of rubber spiders. Those might not represent typical lessons in theater history, yet they're exactly that in "Hellzapoppin," the American Century Theater's antic reconstruction of Ole Olsen and Chic Johnson's celebrated 1938 revue.-
By Celia Wren