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There is a song in the Goodspeed Opera House's smashing revival of George M. Cohan's Little Johnny Jones that invariably stops the show: Give My Regards to Broadway. Nearly everybody in the audience has heard the words and smiles in recognition. But to the people who run the Goodspeed, those lyrics might just as well be Scripture: for the past 17 years they have been giving their regards to Broadway by reviving the great musicals of yesterday and the day before -and by adding a few new shows to the list...
...construct the kind of ice show he envisioned. Curry choreographed two numbers himself and invited eight choreographers from the dance world - Peter Martins, Twyla Tharp, Norman Maen, Kenneth MacMillan, Jean-Pierre Bonnefous, Donald Saddler, Douglas Norwick and Robert Cohan - to do the others. He would explain what a skater could technically do, and they proceeded from there, excited by the prospect of a fluidity and motion denied them on an ordinary dance floor. "John is showing that it's possible to do something on ice that's never been done before," is the enthusiastic comment of Bonnefous...
...sure he'd love to do it, but he's booked solid for two years," Cohan said...
...Cohan said the Lampoon's letter to Travolta stated: "Harvard University has a tragic situation on its hands. Harvard students know their way around Spencer's theories, but they don't know their way around a dance floor...
...Cohan added that the Lampoon had sent its cover photograph of Travolta from its 1978 summer issue, titled "Journal of the Mind," along with its invitation to the star of "Saturday Night Fever...