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They were, the showman in 42nd Street proclaimed, "the most glorious words in the English language: musical comedy!" But for a couple of decades, the people who made Broadway-style musicals forgot about the comedy and went super-serious, telling song-stories about the murderous (Sweeney Todd), the morose (The Phantom of the Opera) and the miserable (Les Miz and dozens more). The Great White Way never sounded so gloomy...
...Flynn in “Chicago.”Good choreography is a necessary force for any musical, but for “Footloose” in particular, and here, the choreography is brilliant. Jennings deserves high praise for her work—dance numbers that easily fit both Broadway and an ’80s night club. Her greatest achievement is to provide a general, synchronized choreography while allowing each dancer to maintain their individual character. In turn, the group of enthusiastic and skilled dancers do justice to Jenning’s lively, flamboyant, and overall excellent choreography.Appropriately...
...brief flirtation over the Internet peer-networking program Myspace. Minervini was hysterically funny as Donald: his arthritic posture and craggily old man voice were delightfully over-the-top. However, during his musical numbers, Minervini dropped the old man act and belted with the clarity and intensity of a Broadway veteran—resulting in a hilariously incongruent performance. Goldstein was equally impressive as Marianne. The role required her to shift between being a naïve schoolgirl and a jailbaiting temptress, and she did so seamlessly. She even demonstrated formidable hip-hop chops during the musical’s zany...
...TAPS, the campus tap-dancing troupe. Along with the company’s “Smooth Criminal” piece, Susan E. Maya ’08 has also choreographed “a fun, whimsical dance set,” which combines “a showy Broadway feel and traditional rhythm-tap.” Maya says that her dance, set to the song “King of New York,” uniquely diverges from the average tap performance and “gives the audience a taste of what tap is really like...
Along with the company’s “Smooth Criminal” piece, Susan E. Maya ’08 has also choreographed “a fun, whimsical dance set,” which combines “a showy Broadway feel and traditional rhythm-tap.” Maya says that her dance, set to the song “King of New York,” uniquely diverges from the average-ever day tap performance and “gives the audience a taste of what tap is really like...