A movie and a stage show are two entirely different things. A picture, you can do anything you want. Change it, cut out a scene, put in a scene, take a scene out. They don’t do that on stage.
Meaning of the quote
Movies and stage shows are very different. With a movie, you can make changes easily, like removing or adding scenes. But with a stage show, you can't change things as easily once the performance starts.
About Cab Calloway
Cab Calloway was a legendary American jazz singer and bandleader who became known as the “Hi-de-ho” man of jazz. He had a long and successful career spanning over 65 years, and his energetic scat singing and popular dance bands made him a star of the swing era. Calloway was also a trailblazer, becoming the first African-American to have a nationally syndicated radio program and receiving numerous accolades, including the National Medal of Arts and a posthumous Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award.
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He was a silly guy. Out – do the other guy. That was his effort at all times.
American jazz singer (1907-1994)
My audience was my life. What I did and how I did it, was all for my audience.
American jazz singer (1907-1994)
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American jazz singer (1907-1994)
What opera isn’t violent? Two things happen, violence and love. And other than that, name something else. You can’t.
American jazz singer (1907-1994)
Everybody that you could name would join in our audiences from, Laguardia on down. Everybody came. Everybody came to the Cotton Club.
American jazz singer (1907-1994)
We didn’t have any segregation at the Cotton Club. No. The Cotton Club was wide open, it was free.
American jazz singer (1907-1994)
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American jazz singer (1907-1994)
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American jazz singer (1907-1994)
That’s what George wrote! He wrote it. Why change it? There was this European company that I was speaking about awhile ago – course, didn’t nobody know what Porgy was.
American jazz singer (1907-1994)
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American jazz singer (1907-1994)
We usually never got out of there before four or five o’clock in the morning. Every morning. So it was rough.
American jazz singer (1907-1994)
You don’t think it was because a white man wrote it, a black man wrote it, a green man wrote it. What – doesn’t make a difference! Doesn’t make a difference. I think he did a good job.
American jazz singer (1907-1994)
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American jazz singer (1907-1994)
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American jazz singer (1907-1994)
The only credit I can give them. They synchronize wonderful. That’s all. They synchronize very – you would have thought that they were actually acting, but they were synching all the time, and that’s a rough job.
American jazz singer (1907-1994)
It’s very difficult to photograph an opera. And they messed up on it. It just wasn’t there. And I don’t blame the Gershwins for taking it away. Of course, if they had gotten the original company to have done it, it would have been very good.
American jazz singer (1907-1994)