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Future chroniclers of the New York theater will point to this period as the age of the choreographer-director sun gods. The Apollonian names will be Jerome Robbins, Gower Champion, Michael Bennett and Bob Fosse. Fosse makes total demands in the realm of precision. Apart from that, he is the most paganly sexual of choreographers, and Shubert Alley is his mother earth-the source of his awesomely abiding strength...
...GOWER CHAMPION...
...Mack (Robert Preston), rendered obsolete by talkies, reminisces about his slapdash improvisatory triumphs and his turbulent on-again, off-again romance with Mabel (Bernadette Peters). After one prolonged absence, Mabel returns to be greeted with a rousing song sequence called When Mabel Comes into the Room. Jerry Herman and Gower Champion have all but plagiarized their own big Hello Dolly number...
Directed by GOWER CHAMPION Screenplay by WENDELL MAYES...
Veteran Hollywood Musical Star Jane Powell, 44, will make her Broadway debut on schedule this week in the '20s hit show Irene despite a behind-the-scenes handicap. Director Gower Champion, busy with a new musical, declined to rehearse with Jane. Luckily, an interim replacement was at hand: Debbie Reynolds, 41, her predecessor as Irene. "Debbie helped me in every possible way," said a delighted Jane. "She kept people from confusing me, and even found a wig to match my hair." Gratitude aside, Powell intends to leave her own stamp on the role of the plucky piano tuner...