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Here’s the schedule for the upcoming Marx Brothers Weekend on Governors Island, NYC! For more information: https://www.facebook.com/events/147606605819697

HAPPY I'LL SAY SHE IS DAY! On this day in 1924, the Four Marx Brothers appeared on a Broadway stage for the first time, and changed comedy forever. We'll be marking the occasion with festive posts on the I’ll Say She Is Facebook page throughout the day. Vive la France!

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An exceptional Groucho caricature by Hans Stengel, New York Herald Tribune, 1926.

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On November 30, I'll be premiering my new illustrated lecture, THE MARX BROTHERS ON BROADWAY, 1924-1929, presented by Zelda magazine at the Morbid Anatomy Museum (a venue I was destined to play eventually). It's a hilarious and informative multimedia presentation, with Marxiana you won't find anywhere else, Very Special Guests, and, of course, "The Monkey Doodle Doo." Whim wham!

Details: http://bit.ly/2eWlSMJ Tickets: http://brownpapertickets.com/event/2706478

The Marx Brothers are having a moment — again.

In the Los Angeles Times, Donald Liebenson writes about the new Marx Brothers renaissance, with nice mentions of I'll Say She Is; Gimme a Thrill; That's Me, Groucho; and other recent and upcoming examples of what Harpo once called "monumental monomania."

Liebenson previously wrote about I’ll Say She Is for rogerebert.com.

THE MARX BROTHERS & The Golden Age of Vaudeville FEATURING NEW RESTORATIONS FROM UNIVERSAL STUDIOS This series features brand new restorations of the Marx Brothers’ five films from Paramount Pictures, now part of the Universal library: The Cocoanuts (1929), Animal Crackers (1930), Monkey Business(1931), Horse Feathers (1932), and Duck Soup (1933). For these restoration, Universal has created new 35mm preservation negatives, as well as new DCPs (Digital Cinema Packages) for exhibition. Universal’s goal was to identify and locate the most complete versions that were as close as possible to the original release.

It starts today at the Film Forum! Tonight, at last, the restored Animal Crackers unspools before our eyes. Marxists with children, drag ‘em to the 11:00 matinee of Horse Feathers on Sunday -- we’ll be there, in character, to judge the Marx Brothers costume contest immediately following the film. http://filmforum.org/events/event/marx-brothers-dress-up-contest

Highlights from I’ll Say She Is, the Lost Marx Brothers Musical, from its acclaimed run at the Connelly Theater, NYC, 2016.

A serious one and a funny one, 1924.

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A discussion of I'LL SAY SHE IS with Kally Patz on WKCR's Art Waves, from June 24.

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A few answers about the future…very few.

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I’ve always been fascinated by the reconstruction of “lost” musicals, so I loved chatting with Noah Diamond about his process in bringing I’LL SAY SHE IS back to the stage after nearly a century of neglect.

Noah Diamond delivers a precise revival of Groucho and Company’s first assault on Broadway.

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During the dreamy experience of the Off Broadway run of I’ll Say She Is, the Lost Marx Brothers Musical, at the Connelly Theater, I’ve been…

The lost 1924 Marx Brothers vehicle has been reconstructed and mounted in a crisp and buoyant new production.

“Je suis Marxiste, tendance Groucho,” the filmmaker Jean-Luc Godard supposedly quipped in response to France’s pseudo-revolutionary unrest of 1968. Nearly half a century on, the professed American “Groucho Marxist” Noah Diamond has indulged his adoration of the fraternal comic ensemble to find what Marx Brothers fans have long regarded as their Holy Grail: the Brothers’ “lost” first Broadway revue, I’ll Say She Is. A fully staged off-Broadway production opened in previews at the Connelly Theater on May 28 followed by the official opening night on June 2.

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