The Band Wagon—a 1931 musical revue that was turned into a 1953 film starring Fred Astaire and Cyd Charisse—will be revived next month by City Center in New York.

He would be close to 80 years old now, maybe 82. He was a tall boy, a child of the Great Depression, but in 1940 he possessed a wagon and a jaunty cap, the sort that Spanky wore in the "Our Gang ...