"My Bathroom is a Private Kind of Place" and Other Gems from the Golden Age of Industrial Musicals

Industrial Musicals

Singing of Toilets, Instead of for Tonys.  Industrial Musicals Were Once Big Shows.  (The New York Times, 1/29/2014)

One-and-done shows.  Mr. Beebe got the job, which turned out to be his first in a long list of industrials, the corporate entertainments that companies including the Big Three automakers, Coca-Cola and Westinghouse produced by the hundreds from the 1950s to the early 1980s. All over the United States, conventions and business meetings echoed to the sounds of tap-dancing feet, ringing choruses and catchy lyrics celebrating tail fins, shower heads and mouthwash.