Tuxedo (vaudeville)

Tuxedo was a vaudeville show with minstrelsy in which the song "Ta-ra-ra Boom-de-ay" was interpolated.

Actor and songwriter Edward Marble wrote and produced Tuxedo for George Thatcher and his minstrel troupe known as Thatcher's Minstrels. The show debuted in Lincoln, Nebraska, on July 23, 1891. It then toured, including to Boston, Massachusetts, beginning on August 24, 1891, and the National Theater in Washington, D.C. Tuxedo arrived in New York at the Park Theatre (at Broadway and 35th Street) on October 5, 1891.

The song "Ta-ra-ra Boom-de-ay" was introduced in this show as an interpolated number.

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