Broadway Puzzler #26

[Unknown User]

Posted: 8/8/03 at 9:15pm

This should be Puzzler #26!

These two innovative Broadway choreographers/directors danced together.

Who are they? And, who led?

Yours for a better Broadway!

Updated On: 8/8/03 at 09:15 PM

[ChrisLovesShows]

Posted: 8/8/03 at 11:05pm

Not Marge and Gower?

[Mrs B]

Posted: 8/8/03 at 11:56pm

Stro and Graciella?

[SueleenGay]

Posted: 8/9/03 at 2:25am

Fosse and Reinking?

[magruder]

Posted: 8/9/03 at 9:13am

Gene Kelly and Stanley Donen in the 1940 Pal Joey?
Bob Fosse and Carol Haney in the movie of Kiss Me, Kate?
Marc Breaux and Dee Dee Wood in Li'l Abner?
Michael Bennett and Gene Varrone in Here's Love?
Tommy Tune and Baayork Lee in Seesaw and A Joyful Noise?
Tommy Tune and Christopher Walken in Baker Street?

Updated On: 8/9/03 at 09:13 AM

[Unknown User]

Posted: 8/9/03 at 4:11pm

OK all you usual suspects...

This was a bit of trick question, but not at all if one read the more recent Puzzler. ChrisLovesShows, got half of it right, and both Sueleen and Magruder got the other half right. But no one put them together.

Gower Champion and Bob Fosse danced together in the 1953 MGM musical GIVE A GIRL A BREAK. Gower and Stanley Donen did the choregraphy; Donen directed; words and music by Ira Gershwin and Burton Lane (their only collaboration). Along with Gower and Bob were Debbie Reynolds, Marge Champion, Helen Wood, and Kurt Kaszner. Plot? Broadway star walks out, the director decides to follow the show's title and "give a girl a break" so he holds auditions for an unknown to replace her.

Ah, the movies. LOL

Yours for a better Broadway! Updated On: 8/9/03 at 04:11 PM

[ChrisLovesShows]

Posted: 8/9/03 at 5:02pm

But wait....who led??

[Unknown User]

Posted: 8/9/03 at 5:16pm

It's a toss up. Until I re-screen the film.

(Unless someone knows the real answer.)

Yours for a better Broadway! Updated On: 8/9/03 at 05:16 PM