| I still think there should be a evening of 3 acts different Broadway choreographers | |
| Last Edit: PlayWiz 08:06 pm EDT 08/22/24 | |
| Posted by: PlayWiz 07:55 pm EDT 08/22/24 | |
| In reply to: Was Onna White staging the Democratic Convention last night? - PlayWiz 12:06 pm EDT 08/22/24 | |
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| Onna White, Tommy Tune and Gower Champion -- some of their terrific stagings We've had plenty of Bob Fosse ("Fosse", and the revival of "Dancin' "), "Jerome Robbins' Broadway", and Michael Bennett's "Dreamgirls" and "A Chorus Line" get reproduced quite a lot But the first three I mentioned are rather overlooked nowadays. Champion's "42nd Street" was revived, but that was 20 years ago. So I think a lot of this stuff would be quite fresh. I thinking of, for instance, White's great "Marian the Librarian" from "The Music Man", Tommy Tune's "Famous Feet" from "Hollywood/Ukraine" and there must be some wonderful stuff from the likes of Champion's "Carnival!" and other things (including "42nd Street"). The American Dance Machine has done some of these things on a relatively smaller scale/budget, and they've done some great evenings. I'd love to see an evening like this on Broadway. Possibly a Program B with Michael Kidd (who could certainly be in the first group), Donald Saddler, Danny Daniels, etc. Actually maybe Michael Kidd's stuff might work even better than Gower Champion's out of the context of a show -- like the gamblers' ballet from "Guys and Dolls", the Sadie Hawkins Ballet from "Li'l Abner", the Can-Can dances from "Can-Can" (though no one's ever seemed to have gotten the kind of raves doing Claudine's material that Gwen Verdon did). |
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