Word: seesaws
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Tony Award for his direction of "Nine," which also won the award for best musical. Or did he dance onto the stage? It was hard to tell for sure. Despite the fact that he had made the trip twice before-as best featured actor in a musical for Seesaw (1973) and as co-choreographer of A Day in Hollywood/A Night in the Ukraine (1980)-he could not quite believe it when No. 3 was announced. "I just sat there," he says. Yet somehow he managed to reach the proper place and do the proper thing: he tripped a little dance...
...Tony for Seesaw almost ended his career as a performer, and he was not offered new parts, probably because producers thought he would be too expensive. He tried a nightclub act and was roundly panned, which left what he calls a "huge scar." He was praised, however, for his direction of a feminist revue, The Club, in 1976 and for the current off-Broadway hit Cloud 9. It is as director and choreographer that he is now generally known. "Performers get applause," he says ruefully. "Directors get gray hairs...
Somewhere along the way, Anita Morris has surely completed Broadway's decathlon. She scaled a 50-ft. wall in the original production of Jesus Christ Superstar, performed an acrobatic dance routine in Seesaw, and was sawed in half by The Magic Show's Doug Henning, then stuffed into a cage with a 200-lb. cougar. In the current Broadway hit Nine, Morris gives new meaning to the phrase physical-fitness buff. In one number, A Call from the Vatican, she does a feline, erotic exercise for which she is so barely dressed in such sheer black that...
Caught on a seesaw of uneven performance, the Harvard women's tennis team spent its entire season with players alternating up and down the scale, but the netwomen could never all reach the heights at the same time Whenever one player was up, another was down...
...while Ross may have been unstoppable Harvard definitely wasn't. The only team to take a match from the Crimson this year the Tigers have now done it twice. The Tigers won the seesaw contest...