Best Tap Number- Page 2
Best Tap Number
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/11/05
re: Best Tap Number#25
Posted: 6/15/05 at 10:50amMy One And Only does come to mind, and Jelly's Last Jam, but recently, the Cagelles do some pretty decent tapping in "We Are What We Are" in La Cage.
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/15/03
re: Best Tap Number#26
Posted: 6/15/05 at 11:06am
The tap number from Seesaw is officially called "Chapter 54, Number 1909" but was nicknamed "Late Great State of New York".
I'd vote for "Who's That Woman?" from Follies as greatest tap number, closely rivaled by "I Want to Be Happy" from No, No, Nanette.
Broadway Legend Joined: 12/4/04
re: Best Tap Number#27
Posted: 6/15/05 at 11:06am
cm2, the number from SEESAW has the memorable title of "Chapter 54, Number 1909".
"The Production Code" from A DAY IN HOLLYWOOD, A NIGHT IN THE UKRAINE is cute.
And I enjoy the tap/ballet duel in ON YOUR TOES.
re: Best Tap Number#29
Posted: 6/15/05 at 11:16am
forget about the boy.
that is the only one from something other than 42nd street that I can think of.
re: Best Tap Number#31
Posted: 6/15/05 at 11:48am"I Wanna Be A Producer" makes my jaw drop every time. I know there are probably better numbers, but it's my favorite (that I can think of at the moment).
re: Best Tap Number#32
Posted: 6/15/05 at 12:06pmANYTHING Ann Miller does. Kiss Me, Kate is just the best. I Got Rhythm in Crazy for You is the best I have seen on stage. For my first Broadway show, I was blown away!
Broadway Legend Joined: 4/7/05
re: Best Tap Number#33
Posted: 6/15/05 at 12:07pmThanks for the clarification of that Seesaw number. I keep meaning to buy that OCR. I loved that show and wish I had seen the original. Impossible, considering my age.
Broadway Legend Joined: 9/1/04
re: Best Tap Number#34
Posted: 6/15/05 at 1:21pm
Sorry, but I don't think anything beats 42nd Street.
Audition
Go Into Your Dance
Plenty of Money (in the Revival, but an old Ann Miller number)
42nd Street Ballet
re: Best Tap Number#35
Posted: 6/15/05 at 1:27pmDoes anyone here actually tap? I do.
re: Best Tap Number#36
Posted: 6/15/05 at 1:43pm
"I Love a Piano" from "White Christmas, the musical"
Out of this world tap dancing from Jeffery Denman, Meredith Patterson, and a slew of chorus boys and girls.
Broadway Star Joined: 12/11/04
re: Best Tap Number#37
Posted: 6/15/05 at 1:59pm
Jeff does some GREAT tap in his show Change Partners.
I know most of you are all too young but ANY of Fred Astaire's dancing.....especially fred's number where he dances with the creaking noise in the floor and the news paper
re: Best Tap Number#38
Posted: 6/15/05 at 2:14pm
MTRBOI24,
I'm not and I love that Fred number!! I also enjoyed his number with the sand from an ashcan in ....Top Hat, I think? The one where he initially wakes up Ginger with his energetic tapping, then switches to soft shoe to apologize!
I would have loved to have seen Jeff's show Change Partners! I have been craving some good old fashioned dancing for a long time, and Jeff's work in White Christmas fullfilled the craving...
Broadway Legend Joined: 7/10/04
re: Best Tap Number#40
Posted: 6/15/05 at 2:41pmOh and "Moses Supposes" from Singin' In The Rain is great!
Broadway Star Joined: 12/11/04
re: Best Tap Number#41
Posted: 6/15/05 at 2:43pmChange Partners was great! some excellent dancing going on there.
re: Best Tap Number#42
Posted: 6/15/05 at 2:57pmI really love "The Speed Test" from TMM, very creative.
re: Best Tap Number#43
Posted: 6/15/05 at 3:02pmMorosco -- you beat me to it . . . "Black and Blue" HANDS DOWN! I took tap from Savion Glover (who was just a kid then), Germaine Goodson, and Van Porter who were in that at the same time that I took from several more "traditional" stylists. I have to say, the "Black and Blue" tappers did stuff that is out of this world!!! Savion's classes were completely improvised and the man is a genius.
re: Best Tap Number#44
Posted: 6/15/05 at 3:03pmthe closing number to Beyond the Sea
Broadway Star Joined: 5/12/03
re: Best Tap Number: TAXI !!!#45
Posted: 6/15/05 at 3:13pmFrom "Bring in the Noise" Just amazing. Then, Now You has Jazz from "Jellys Last Jam"
Broadway Legend Joined: 8/16/04
re: Best Tap Number: TAXI !!!#46
Posted: 6/15/05 at 3:26pmKickin' the Clouds Away from My One and Only. It's on the Broadway's Lost Treasures DVD, and I watch it frequently. I love when the backdrop raises up and the guys are doing a mirror image of the girls' dancing. Mmmm.
re: Best Tap Number: TAXI !!!#47
Posted: 6/15/05 at 3:44pm
OH yeah, Throughly Modern Millie had great tap!
I didn't see it, but I can hear it on the OBCR.
I saw Producers on tour last week, and someguys were acting like they were tapping, but it was a percussionist making the sound in the pit when they "tapped". It was one of the male leads, maybe Leo I think. The ensemble really tapped though.
Broadway Legend Joined: 8/16/04
re: Best Tap Number: TAXI !!!#48
Posted: 6/15/05 at 4:12pmHyperchet, they do that during Springtime for Hitler for Roger. Is that what you're thinking of?
Leading Actor Joined: 1/10/05
re: Best Tap Number: TAXI !!!#49
Posted: 6/15/05 at 4:55pmAnything Goes - the title could track is the best for tap followied by "top top tap" from Acorn Antiques and then most of 42nd Street!
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