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
November 18, 2018
Ned Wayburn’s Nighitngales opened a week at the Family Theatre in Pittston, Pennsylvania on this day in 1907. It would be the last time they were billed under Ned Wayburn’s name. Beginning the following week they were known as the Three Nighitngales.
November 17, 2018
The Man of Her Choice – featuring Julius Marx – played a one-night-stand at the Lyceum Theatre in Ashtabula, Ohio on this day in 1906.
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