| re: I still think there should be a evening of 3 acts different Broadway choreographers | |
| Posted by: AlanScott 04:50 am EDT 08/30/24 | |
| In reply to: re: I still think there should be a evening of 3 acts different Broadway choreographers - PlayWiz 01:09 pm EDT 08/26/24 | |
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| As far as I know, the only Balanchine Broadway choreography that exists are the two ballets from On Your Toes, and even those are perhaps not the same as the originals. What I was trying to say before is that often film and television captures of choreography leave holes. When a stageful of people are dancing, but the camera is focusing on only some of them, we don't know what the others are doing. Sometimes a reasonable guess can be made, but it will only be a guess. That would be the case with the title song of Walking Happy, at least as seen on the Tony. I think it was perhaps also done on the Sullivan Show. "Clog and Grog" from the same show was done both on the Sullivan Show and by American Dance Machine on television. Both are on youtube, and we can see pretty much everything. Unfortunately, I think it's unlikely that much else Daniels choreographed for the stage exists on video. In an unfinished draft of my earlier reply, I started to talk about Li'l Abner, which unfortunately I haven't seen for a while. While the Kidd choreography was recreated by Deedee Wood, I'm not sure how much it may have been slightly adapted for the film. I'm not sure how easily what we see in the film would be transferable to the stage just as it is seen in the film. It may be that it could be. The film is, of course, unusually stagy. There is extensive silent footage of Li'l Abner on Broadway that might be very helpful, though, if an attempt were made to reproduce it now. Not having any dance skills at all, much less any choreographic skills, it may be that a choreographer would have no trouble filling in with a likely high degree of accuracy the missing stuff I referred to above in some of these dances. I do think it's unlikely that there would be much interest in commercially producing a show like the one you envision, though I would certainly love to see it done. |
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