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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...closing numbers, Strike Up the Band and / Got Rhythm, have so far been orchestrated for a brassy pit band. The rest of the evening the dancers were accompanied by Pianist Gordon Boelzner, plunking away in imitation of Gershwin's strutting, rag-timey style. (In one number, Clap Yo' Hands, the dancers prance across the stage to the sound of Gershwin's own piano playing, recorded in 1926 and raspily reproduced on tape.) The solo piano is pure serendipity-suggesting the feverish, will-the-show-go-on mood of a storybook Great White Way that never...