From Broadway To 52nd Street
The year was 1926 and much to everyone’s surprise Garrick Gaities was so well received that it was brought back for a regular run. Sterling Holloway appeared in all of the sequels and Edith Meiser appeared in all but the final one. Notable performers included Imogene Coca and Rosalind Russell.
The music and lyrics for this second edition of the Gaieties was written by Rodgers and Hart and introduced their famous song “Mountain Greenery”, which would go on to become a jazz standard.
Jazz History: “The Street”, as it would come to be known, couldn’t have come into existence without the assistance of the New York City Board of Estimate, who on December 10, 1926 passed a resolution lifting residential restrictions on the brownstones between 5th and 6th Avenues. With the new or old owners gaining the ability to command higher rents from the illicit speakeasy owners than ordinary apartment dwellers or even the kept women who occupied many a brownstone apartment, the inevitability of 52nd Street was born.
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