American Quarterly publishes a handy blog that features supplementary materials to accompany each issue. My recent contribution to the March 2017 issue of Beyond the Page can be found here. The introduction to my post is below.


In “Shuffle and Repeat: A Review of George C. Wolfe’s Shuffle Along” I highlight the historical importance of the short-lived 2016 Broadway production of Shuffle Along, or The Making of the Musical Sensation of 1921 and All That Followed. I also note that there may be certain lacunae in our historiography of The Making Of (2016), because of a cast recording was not produced before the production closed. A cast recording was rumored to be in the works with Nonesuch Records, but it remained just that, a rumor…