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Buster Davis’s short-lived 1975 Broadway musical drama 'Doctor Jazz' completed a brief run of 5 performances at the Winter Garden Theatre, remaining a highly sought-after curiosity for stage historians. The grand-scale narrative charts the turbulent, rhythmically rich evolution of early American popular music between 1915 and 1925, moving from the gritty street corners of New Orleans to the hot jazz clubs of Chicago and the Ziegfeld Follies circuit in Manhattan. Directed and choreographed with athletic precision by Donald McKayle, the spectacular production served as a phenomenal star-making vehicle for a young Lola Falana in a Tony-nominated tour-de-force turn alongside Bobby Van.

