How was Stage career – Broadway and London of actor Fred Astaire ?
They followed up with several more shows and of their work in The Passing Show of 1918, Heywood Broun wrote “In an evening in which there was an abundance of good dancing, Fred Astaire stood out…He and his partner, Adele Astaire, made the show pause early in the evening with a beautiful loose-limbed dance.”[16] By this time, Astaire’s dancing skill was beginning to outshine his sister’s, though she still set the tone of their act and her sparkle and humor drew much of the attention, due in part to Fred’s careful preparation and strong supporting choreography. During the 1920s, Fred and Adele appeared on Broadway and on the London stage in shows such as George and Ira Gershwin’s Lady Be Good (1924) and Funny Face (1927), and later in The Band Wagon (1931), winning popular acclaim with the theater crowd on both sides of the Atlantic. By then, Astaire’s tap dancing was recognized as among the best, as Robert Benchley wrote in 1930, “I don’t think that I will plunge the nation into war b
