Word: hoofer
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Saroyan's characters are more than slightly alienated from each other, unmotivated in conventional terms, and obsessively concerned with self-expression. One boy insists that he wants to be a hoofer and comedian, though he is a pathetically inept dancer and his jokes fall flat. At one point, Joe (James Broderick) the café philosopher who dominates the stage, puts 27 sticks of gum in his mouth because he has always wanted to do it. When Saroyan says, "In the time of your life, live," one realizes almost eerily that there, 30 years ago, the cry was first raised...
DAMES AT SEA is a delightful spoof of the movie musicals of the 1930s. The engaging cast of six features Bernadette Peters as Ruby, the hoofer who "taps her way to stardom" against all odds...
DAMES AT SEA is a delightful spoof of the movie musicals of the 1930s. The engaging cast of six features Bernadette Peters as Ruby, the hoofer who "taps her way to stardom" against all odds...
...Tracy did make his "successful start" in newsman roles in The Front Page on Broadway in 1928 [Oct. 25]. His acting career actually began two years earlier, in the Jed Harris production of Broadway, playing the hoofer in that show and making an even bigger hit than he did as Hildy Johnson in the Hecht-MacArthur show. "Look at the personality I got" became a byword in the '20s, and he was already a made man by the time the other show came in. Earlier, with Charlie Bickford, just before Broadway, he played a minor part in Glory Hallelujah...
Bumps & Grinds. Although dated for today's audience-which Balanchine helped educate-Slaughter was a pioneer work that put ballet on Broadway permanently. With high-fidelity hauteur, Suzanne Farrell stormed tantalizingly through the bumps and grinds of the striptease girl, ably partnered by Arthur Mitchell as her jealous hoofer boy friend. The dance was all show-biz flash, far removed from the cool twelve-tone Balanchine ballets in which Farrell has frequently starred...