(MUSIC) MEYERS HAZEL BILLY PIERSON Steppin’ High from Dixie

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(MUSIC.) MEYERS, HAZEL & BILLY PIERSON. Steppin' High from Dixie . . . 35 People, Select Bronze Beauty Chorus. City Opera House. Small folio leaf, folded to form four pages, printed on all sides with a small vignette of the company on stage. Wooster, OH, [1926]

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Program for an early and important all-black musical comedy, starring blues singer Hazel Meyers and produced and staged by Billy Pierson. With a review including the 'famous Steppin." High Quartette "of four harmony singers from the Golden Gate," the 3 Black Aces, and a 'Bronze Beauty Chorus . . . of dainty dimpled darlings, and dancing beauties.' Hazel Meyers was a true superstar, having made some 40 records of blues songs between 1923 and 1926, working with Fletcher Henderson, whose orchestra was featured at the Harlem opening of 'Steppin' High.' The 30 musical numbers in the show were reportedly written by Los Angeles brothers John and Benjamin Spikes. 'Steppin' High' opened in Los Angeles for two weeks at the Philharmonic Auditorium in September 1924; followed by a San Francisco run and then a national tour that took the company--cut in half from the original cast of 60--through a dozen states for over a year. This Ohio performance, which added the title words 'From Dixie,' perhaps for appeal to a Midwest white audience, was one of the very last. rare: no copies are located by oclc.