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
September 20, 2018
One week after the death of their mother Minnie Marx, the Four Marx Brothers opened the road tour of their third Broadway hit Animal Crackers at the Shubert Theatre in New Haven, Connecticut on this day in 1929.
September 19, 2018
The Four Marx Brothers in Mr. Green’s Reception opened at the Orpheum Theatre in Michigan City, Indiana on this day in 1912.
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