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''Billy Rose's Aquacade'' was a music, dance and swimming show produced by Billy Rose at the Great Lakes Exposition in 1937. Later ''Aquacade'' moved to the 1939 New York World's Fair where it was the most successful production of the fair (Lowe). The Art Deco 11,000 seat amphitheatre at the north end of Meadow Lake was designed by architects Sloan & Robertson. Shows were staged by John Murray Anderson to the orchestrations of Ted Royal. The pool and the 300 by stage could be hidden behind a lighted high curtain of water. The inaugural ''Aquacade'' starred Olympians Eleanor Holm, Johnny Weissmuller (later replaced by Buster Crabbe) and newcomer Esther Williams. Rose married Holm after divorcing his first wife, comedienne Fanny Brice. Duke Ellington played in a 1955 edition for several weeks. For the New York ''Aquacade'', Rose interviewed 5,000 applicants and chose 500 dancers, actors and swimmers. Gertrude Ederle, a Flushing, Queens resident and the first woman to swim the English Channel, was an ''Aquacade'' star. Queens Borough President Donald R. Manes dedicated the pool to her in 1978. In 1940, ''Aquacade'' also opened in San Francisco at the Golden Gate International Exposition. The New York State Marine Amphitheatre was torn down in 1996 because of local opposition to renovating the asbestos-contaminated structure as a concert venue. (Music used for the Aquacade ) is held by the (Music Division ) of (The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts ). ==Sources== * ''Art Deco New York''; D. Lowe; 2004; Watson-Guptill * "So Long at the Fair"; ''New York Times''; Jun 11, 1995 * "Love in the Ruins; Preservationists Fight to Save Crumbling Queens Aquacade"; L. Holloway. ''New York Times''; Jun 6, 1995 * ''1939: The Lost World of the Fair''; David Gelernter; Free Press, 1995 * ''aqua-''; Oxford English Dictionary Online, 2d Ed. * "THE ROSE ON THE WATER; Being a Brief Description of What Cleveland Will See in ''Aquacade''"; ''New York Times''; February 28, 1937 * "A Woman's New York: 4,000 Applicants Turn Up..." Alice Hughes; ''The Washington Post'' (1877-1954); Feb 28, 1939; * "The Water Show"; ''Wall Street Journal''; May 6, 1939 * "Eleanor Holm Jarrett Breaks With Band Leader-Husband"; ''The Washington Post''; Jul 21, 1937 * (''Hard Times, High Visions: Golden Gate International Exposition'' ); Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Billy Rose's Aquacade」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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