Century Roof Theatre, "Balieff's Chauve-Souris"
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content: Phillip Graneto Broadway Theater Collection
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content: Phillip Graneto Broadway Theater Collection / Series 4: Broadway Theater Programs (New York, New York)
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content: 1923
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content: Box 1, Folder 18
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Archives Center, National Museum of American History
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content: Archival materials
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content: The program's cover features an illustration of a man in a tuxedo with bat-like wings. The title of the play is translated in the program as "Bat Theatre of Moscow" but could also be translated as simply, "The Bat." The production was directed by Nikita Balieff, who is also credited in the program as "stage autocrat."  The program has a clippling with a cartoon of the performers glued into it.  It also contains summaries of many of the numbers. This show was a revue that came from Russia, and toured in the US multiple times.  It helped to popularize "The Parade of the Tin Soldiers" by Leon Jessel.