Best Dance Number in a Musical

#1

Best Dance Number in a Musical

Posted: 4/14/06 at 6:24pm

...what is your favorite?

I would have to say (since I am a big fan of fosse)

Dancin' Man-So intricate. Seems simple, but very hard to perform because it is so precise.

Steam Heat- I like the choreography. Plain and simple.

#2

re: Best Dance Number in a Musical

Posted: 4/14/06 at 6:32pm

All That Jazz
Cell Block Tango
Me And My Baby
We Both Reached For The Gun
Nowadays/Hot Honey Rag
Big Spender (Fosse)
If My Friends Can See Me Now (Fosse)
Rich Man's Frug (Fosse, though Cilento's wasn't that bad)
Who's Got The Pain?
America
Where You Are
You Gotta Get A Gimmick

WAY too many to list.

#3

re: Best Dance Number in a Musical

Posted: 4/14/06 at 6:50pm

America

#4

re: Best Dance Number in a Musical

Posted: 4/14/06 at 6:54pm

"We're in the Money" from 42nd Street (revival)

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#5

re: Best Dance Number in a Musical

Posted: 4/14/06 at 6:55pm

"I Got Rhythm" from Crazy For You, and pretty much anything from White Christmas.

#6

re: Best Dance Number in a Musical

Posted: 4/14/06 at 7:12pm

Dance Solo- Music and the Mirror, A Chorus Line

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#7

re: Best Dance Number in a Musical

Posted: 4/14/06 at 7:18pm

Steam Heat!!!! And seeing Joyce Chittick dance that number makes me want to dance again more than anything!

Younger Brother- I LOVE Crazy For You!!! It is one of my favorites. I have to find a way to get my hands on the PBS version of it!

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#8

re: Best Dance Number in a Musical

Posted: 4/14/06 at 7:21pm

Dance at the Gym from WSS

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#9

re: Best Dance Number in a Musical

Posted: 4/14/06 at 7:37pm

Dance at the Gym WSS
Rich Mans Frueg(sp) Fosse(never saw Sweet Charity on Broadway)

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#10

re: Best Dance Number in a Musical

Posted: 4/14/06 at 7:50pm

Hernando's hideaway
all that jazz
steam heat
any chicago number

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#11

re: Best Dance Number in a Musical

Posted: 4/14/06 at 7:57pm

Dance at the Gym - West Side Story
Opening Number (The Audition) - A Chorus Line
Barn Raising - Seven Brides for Seven Brothers film
Wedding/Bottle Dance - Fiddler on the Roof
Crapshooter's Ballet - Guys and Dolls
anything/everything from Singin' in the Rain

#12

re: Best Dance Number in a Musical

Posted: 4/14/06 at 8:02pm

I love Steam Heat and All That Jazz... and as for the more "modern" Broadway, the choreography to "You Can't Stop the Beat" is rather impressive.

#13

re: Best Dance Number in a Musical

Posted: 4/14/06 at 8:02pm

America

#14

re: Best Dance Number in a Musical

Posted: 4/14/06 at 8:05pm

"Shoeless Joe" (Damn Yankees- Revival/ R. Marshall)
"It's Not Where You Start" (Seesaw/ Tune & Bennett)
"Too Darn Hot" (Kiss Me Kate- Revival/ K. Marshall)
"Uncle Tom Ballet" (King & I/ Robbins)
"Pizza Every Night" (Boobs! The Musical/ Leritz)
"Give A Man Enough Rope" (Will Rogers Follies/ Tune)
"Dream Ballet" (Oklahoma/ DeMille)
All of "West Side Story"...a masterpiece

#15

re: Best Dance Number in a Musical

Posted: 4/14/06 at 8:10pm

Anything from 42nd street. And La Vie Boheme

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Updated On: 4/14/06 at 08:10 PM

#16

re: Best Dance Number in a Musical

Posted: 4/14/06 at 8:40pm

my favorite choreographies were in Kiss of the Spider Woman(Where you are, Morphine Tango), Bombay Dreams(Ganesh, Chaya Chaya, Wedding Qwalli) and Fame(Fame, and the 1st song, i forgot the name).

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Updated On: 4/14/06 at 08:40 PM

#17

re: Best Dance Number in a Musical

Posted: 4/14/06 at 8:45pm

Steam Heat ~ The Pajama Game (revival)
Dance at the Gym ~ West Side Story
Dancing through life ~ Wicked
America ~ WSS
All That Jazz ~ Chicago
Hernando's Hideaway ~ TPG

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#18

re: Best Dance Number in a Musical

Posted: 4/14/06 at 8:52pm

"You Can't Stop the Beat" from Hairspray
The finale from "42nd Street"

#19

re: Best Dance Number in a Musical

Posted: 4/14/06 at 8:53pm

You Can't Stop the Beat... just looks SO good with the whole cast. the energy level is so high!

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#20

re: Best Dance Number in a Musical

Posted: 4/14/06 at 9:01pm

Another vote for "You Can't Stop the Beat"
"Oklahoma" in DRS
Bottle dance from Fiddler

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Updated On: 4/14/06 at 09:01 PM

#21

re: Best Dance Number in a Musical

Posted: 4/14/06 at 9:06pm

I give my vote to 'You Can't Stop the Beat'. It's so powerful and amazing when you see the whole cast dancing their asses off.

Before I ever saw the show, I told my friend Candice (Dynamite) that I loved YCSTB on the cast recording. She told me "Wait until you see it live!"

Boy, was she right!

#22

re: Best Dance Number in a Musical

Posted: 4/14/06 at 9:28pm

Would you consider a ballet as a dance number? Natalia Makarova and Lara Teeter doing George Ballanchine's original choreography to Richard Rodgers' "Slaughter on Tenth Avenue" from On Your Toes.

#23

re: Best Dance Number in a Musical

Posted: 4/14/06 at 10:29pm

America
Cool (in the movie WSS)
Dance at the Gym
Hey Big Spender (if done well)
Rich Man's Frug

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#24

re: Best Dance Number in a Musical

Posted: 4/14/06 at 10:42pm

Dance at the Gym, definitely. It takes TONS of talent to pull off.

#25

re: Best Dance Number in a Musical

Posted: 4/14/06 at 10:56pm

Voulez-Vous Mamma Mia!
Everything Taboo Taboo
Gimme Gimme Gimme Mamma Mia!
My Strongest Suit Aida [If that counts]