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...MEMORABLE MOMENT] After support staff is briefly delinquent in assisting Wonder from his vintage car, the star recovers splendidly and tap-dances with Savion Glover...
This festival has been an institution in Switzerland for decades, so the version that co-producers Claude Nobs and Quincy Jones brought to New York City's Central Park could have easily devolved into a tired museum exhibit. That wasn't the case. Savion Glover did a tap-vs.-congas duet with drummer Leon Parker; singer Patti Austin added a line about Teletubbies to her brisk version of Makin' Whoopee. And the best performance came from vocalist Joe Williams, 79, who sang a swinging, confident rendition of one of his signature songs, Every Day I Have the Blues...
...have noticed. Nearly all this season's big musicals are arriving, as usual, in the last two frantic weeks before the Tony Award nominations. And far from showcasing a new generation of downtown talents, like Rent's Jonathan Larson or Bring in 'Da Noise, Bring in 'Da Funk's Savion Glover, this season could pass for a Friars Club reunion of old Broadway tunesmiths, with Cy Coleman (Sweet Charity), John Kander and Fred Ebb (Cabaret), Maury Yeston (Nine) and Leslie Bricusse (Stop the World--I Want to Get Off) all back on the boards...
...Bring in 'Da Noise, Bring in 'Da Funk. The black experience in America as interpreted by the tapping, stomping feet of Savion Glover and company. The sketches--on how hard it is to hail a cab in Manhattan, or be a black dancing star in 1930s Hollywood--are satirically on target, and the dancers perform with demon drive. What a year for musicals...
...Noise/Funk (in stores now) makes the music and messages contained in these two shows available even to people without gold cards and/or a 212 area code. Do they work as albums in their own right? Noise/Funk at first would seem unrecordable--the show, which stars tap-dancing whiz Savion Glover, is about dance, about movement, about flashing, stomping, whirling feet. A recording of a dance seems as useful as a photograph of a symphony. But tap dancing is percussive, rhythmic, noisy. To hear Glover's feet banging away is to feel his passion, his intent; visuals would be nice...