Word: choreographer
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...says it would be nice to have another English player on the team to complement his playing style. He has done well for himself at midfield, though, using his head for the game to choreograph the Harvard attack, which has become much more controlled this season...
...though several performers do manage to make an impression despite the clutter. Outstanding among them are Donna Summer, who is effective when, as the aspiring singer, she seizes her musical moment; Chick Vennera as a character who lives only to dance and who, if someone had actually bothered to choreograph his big number, might have been even better; and Andrea Howard, who gives a touching performance as the housewife looking for kicks...
...Gloria Gaynor, Donna Summer, the Silver Convention, Maynard Ferguson, Shalamar, Marvin Gaye, the Bee Gees, the Isley Brothers, Jerry Butler-as well as Sinatra, Como and Glenn Miller. They are cunningly selected by the all-important disco jockeys who keep a hawk's eye on the floor and choreograph the dancers by changing the pace and style of the records and tapes. Says Chicago Disco Jockey Paul Weisberg: "I look around and get a feeling for the mood, the age and the dress of the people...
...Rascals' best weapon--amateur audacity and charm--to win mass approval for themselves? Crafty kids. They ask dad the best way to raise the money, and they ask mum if they can borrow the interior decorator to do the sets and they hire a Professional Director to choreograph the kick line. But No Girls Allowed, so some of the kids stuff their skirts with petticoats and put on phony busts. Step kick kick, step kick kick, and pretty soon it's opening night. What then...
Engaged. Patricia Bowman, 67, the "American Pavlova" who opened Radio City Music Hall in 1932 with Ray Bolger, later danced with Ballet Theater; and Albert Kaye, 75, retired theatrical producer, who 40 years ago had hired her to choreograph a ballet. At the time, Kaye proposed to Bowman, but she refused to mix marriage and a career. Last fall Widower Kaye proposed again, and this time she accepted...