GREAT PERFORMANCES mourns the passing of Doris Eaton Travis (1904 – 2010)—the last surviving Ziegfeld Girl—who first lit up the 1918 edition of The Ziegfeld Follies with her All American Girl star power. Doris’ enduring song and dance charms were memorably featured in Episode One of the Emmy Award-winning Broadway: The American Musical (2004), in which she recreated one of her routines, Irving Berlin’s “Mandy,” on the set of The Lion King in the beautifully restored New Amsterdam Theater—the very stage on which she had performed in the Follies eight decades earlier.
