Spreadin' Rhythm Around

September 30, 2005 Spreadin’ Rhythm Around A review by Stan Dyer Playing the rest of this month at the Country Dinner Playhouse, (6875 S. Clinton Street), is the Fats Waller musical review “Ain’t Misbehavin”. The show is a historical account of jazz music from the Roaring 20’s, through the Great Depression, and ending during WWII. Thomas Wright Waller, (known as “Fats” since he weighed over 300 lbs), was born in 1904, grew up in the 20’s during the Harlem Renaissance and died of pneumonia aboard a train in 1943. Although “Ain’t Misbehavin” is not a chronological review, it does include songs written in each of the three decades that Waller lived loosely linked together to keep the audience entertained. You’ll get the sense of life in a Prohibition era Gin Joint, the View the rest of this article