McCracken broke her Warner Brothers contract and went back to Broadway to star in the musical "Bloomer Girl", set in the early Twentieth Century, getting rave reviews for her performance, which combined comedy acting with dance.
McCracken broke her Warner Brothers contract and went back to Broadway to star in the musical "Bloomer Girl" (1944), set during the U.S. Civil War, which is widely considered to be the first Broadway musical about feminism. She received rave reviews for her performance, which combined comedy acting with dance.