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Best Dance Number in a Musical
Cenoern
Stand-by Joined: 10/26/05
#26re: Best Dance Number in a Musical
Posted: 4/15/06 at 8:01am
Sit down your rockin the boat - Guys and Dolls
The waltz for Che and Eva - Evita
Shall we dance - The King and I
Anything from Chicago.
#27re: Best Dance Number in a Musical
Posted: 4/15/06 at 8:15am
You Can't Stop tbe Beat (Hairspray)
Keepin the Faith/Only the Good Die Young (Movin' Out)
Jellicle Ball (Cats)
All that Jazz (Chicago)
We Are What We Are (La Cage-OBC, not revival)
Crapshooter Ballet (Guys and Dolls)
Anything that Chita Rivera has ever been in
Anything that Michael Berresse has ever been in
Sant
Broadway Legend Joined: 9/12/04
#28re: Best Dance Number in a Musical
Posted: 4/15/06 at 8:26am
All That Jazz - CHICAGO
Hot Honey Rag - CHICAGO
Cell Block Tango - CHICAGO
Razzle Dazzle - CHICAGO
The Small House of Uncle Thomas - THE KING AND I
Rich Man's Frug - SWEET CHARITY
Jellicle Ball - CATS
ThunderCat8
Understudy Joined: 1/11/06
#29re: Best Dance Number in a Musical
Posted: 4/15/06 at 9:08am
I liked Electricity from Billy Elliot. Those boys can dance!
In Mary Poppins, the chim chim chimney dance was amazing. And Bert going upside down tapping was incredible!
#30re: Best Dance Number in a Musical
Posted: 4/15/06 at 9:45am
Take off with us- Fosse, All That Jazz
All That Jazz/ Cell Block
Rich Man's Frug
most of the numbers in Pippin
Ti Moune's dance in OOTI
audition/ opening from Chorus Line
#31re: Best Dance Number in a Musical
Posted: 4/16/06 at 6:50pmAmerica-WSS, Gimme Gimme Gimme-Mamma Mia, Hot Honey Rag-Chicago and She Loves to hear the Music-BFO
"Ah the city. So many lights you can actually pretend one of them is shining on you."
CLIFF: "There was a cabaret and there was a master of ceremonies and there was a city called Berlin in a country called Germany - and it was the end of the world and I was dancing with Sally Bowles - and we were both fast asleep"
BSoBW2
Broadway Legend Joined: 12/8/04
#32re: Best Dance Number in a Musical
Posted: 4/16/06 at 6:51pmThe Bottle Dance during the wedding in FIDDLER.
#33re: Best Dance Number in a Musical
Posted: 4/16/06 at 9:08pmYou Cant Stop the Beat! La Vie Boheme, Bottle Dance from Fiddler, Dancing Through Life (OzDust Ballroom Part) and, Masquerade
#34re: Best Dance Number in a Musical
Posted: 4/16/06 at 10:26pmFootloose - the opening and closing numbers titled "footloose" and "footloose - reprise"
neddyfrank2
Broadway Legend Joined: 12/23/05
#35re: Best Dance Number in a Musical
Posted: 4/16/06 at 11:03pmI second Crapshooters dance and Sit down your rockin the boat, when done right, they are amazing!
#36re: Best Dance Number in a Musical
Posted: 4/17/06 at 12:02am
I have this strange fascination with Mimi's dancing during "Out Tonight" in RENT. It's how I grade my Mimi's most of the time.
As far as repeating things:
-All That Jazz
-America
-Music and the Mirror
Tag
Broadway Legend Joined: 11/19/05
#37re: Best Dance Number in a Musical
Posted: 4/17/06 at 12:25am
Slap That Bass - The showstopper in Crazy For You
Susan Stroman did some genius work on that show.
#38re: Best Dance Number in a Musical
Posted: 4/17/06 at 12:32am
"Cool" from West Side Story
#39re: Best Dance Number in a Musical
Posted: 4/17/06 at 12:47am
"You Can't Stop the Beat" from Hairspray and the Finale from 42nd St. Kinda surprised people haven't mentioned it much...in the revival it was absolutely breath-taking I thought.
cheers,
Christopher
CurtainPullDowner
Broadway Legend Joined: 11/4/04
mateo
Broadway Legend Joined: 4/8/06
#41re: Best Dance Number in a Musical
Posted: 4/17/06 at 1:41amI'd go ahead and just say anything Michael Bennett
-Adam Shankman.
"I haven't left this building since Windows 3.1!"
"Celebrating a birthday this week: Rene Descartes is 412! Do you know who he is? Then why are you watching this show? You could probably get into college and even get one of those job things. As for the rest of us; Amanda Bynes is 22! Yay!"
-E!'s "The Soup"
#42re: Best Dance Number in a Musical
Posted: 8/8/06 at 2:46pm
-God Has Left the Building (Dance of the Vampires)
-Lion Dance (Pacific Overtures, original)
-Rich Mans Fruge (Sweet Charity)
thevolleyballer
Broadway Legend Joined: 9/29/04
#43re: Best Dance Number in a Musical
Posted: 8/8/06 at 2:48pm
"Oklahoma?" - Dirty Rotten Scoundrels
"Nicest Kids in Town" - Hairspray
"It's Your Wedding Day" - Wedding Singer
"America" - West Side Story
Gotta love them all, even if they're not on my list. Classic or not, it takes so much to make a dance number special and work really well. I think everyone (not here) underestimates the talent of a dancer, especially the critics and the average theatregoer. They think that dancing is a couple choreographed steps that anyone can do if they're taught it. WRONG! Long live dancers. :)
#44re: Best Dance Number in a Musical
Posted: 8/8/06 at 3:00pm
~Dance at the Gym (West Side)
~Lioness Hunt (The Lion King)
~Sing Sing Sing (Fosse)
~River of Dreams (Movin' Out)
~Saturday Night in the City (Wedding Singer)
#45re: Best Dance Number in a Musical
Posted: 8/8/06 at 3:05pm
The Bride and Groom dance during "It's Your Wedding Day" ~ The Wedding Singer
"I Got Rhythm"~ Crazy For You
WOSQ
Broadway Legend Joined: 7/18/03
#46re: Best Dance Number in a Musical
Posted: 8/8/06 at 3:06pm
The best dance number ever...?
You mean besides "Who's That Woman?" by Michael Bennett in the original staging of Follies?
#47re: Best Dance Number in a Musical
Posted: 8/8/06 at 3:10pm
"America" - West Side Story
"It's Your Wedding Day" - The Wedding Singer
"I Got Rhythm" - Crazy for you
The choice may have been mistaken, The choosing was not... "Every day has the potential to be the greatest day of your life." - Lin-Manuel Miranda
#48re: Best Dance Number in a Musical
Posted: 8/8/06 at 3:14pm
"Beat Me Daddy Eight To The Bar" from BIG DEAL and "It Don't Mean A Thing" from SOPHISTICATED LADIES popped into mind right away but there are WAY too many to list.
#49re: Best Dance Number in a Musical
Posted: 8/8/06 at 3:19pm
WOSQ thank goodness you said it- there really cannot be a better piece of choreography/ dance drama/ pure broadway, 5-star, no question, jaw-dropping, floor-wiping tha 'Who's That Woman?' in Follies.
I'm putting my fingers in my ears and going 'Lalalala' loudly, because I really won't hear otherwise!!!!
Second choice- way way back- Bye Bye Blackbird.
Love to all.
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