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
May 18, 2021
Shean and Marx – Lou Shean and Leonard Marx in their act From Grand Opera to Ragtime – gave their final documented performance at the Cherokee Theatre in St. Louis, Missouri.
May 17, 2021
The Four Nightingales opened at the Lyceum Theatre in Stamford, Connecticut on this day in 1909.
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