Four of the Three Musketeers
The Marx Brothers on Stage
“As far as I’m concerned, the Marx Brothers practically invented comedy. And I love this great new book about them by Robert Bader!”
- JERRY SEINFELD
“A new benchmark in Marx scholarship"
- LOS ANGELES TIMES
“Fascinating”
- THE WALL STREET JOURNAL
Before film made them international comedy legends, the Marx Brothers developed their comic skills on stage for twenty-five years. In Four of the Three Musketeers: The Marx Brothers on Stage, Robert S. Bader offers the first comprehensive history of the foursome’s hardscrabble early years honing their act in front of live audiences. READ MORE
UPCOMING EVENTS!
TODAY IN MARX BROTHERS HISTORY
December 13, 2018
On this day in 1914 the Four Marx Brothers in Home Again opened at Keith’s Theatre in Cincinnati, Ohio.
December 12, 2018
Minnie Palmer and Her Seven Happy Youngsters opened in the vaudeville sketch “Fun in a Seminary” at the Coliseum Theatre in Chicago, Illinois on this day in 1910.
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