Favorite Broadway Dances (To Perform!)

Some of you may be professional dancers. Some (like myself) may not. But nonetheless, I'm sure MANY of you enjoy dancing around to your favorite Cast Recordings. Some of you may even (I know I am guilty of it) find clips of certain dance routines and practice them! My question is - what is your favorite dance to (try and) perform? Do you try to get the choreography exact? Do you add your own personal flairs? Do you gather a crowd of (trustworthy) friends into your living room to watch your incredible performance?

My favorites are:

Turkey Lurkey Time - Promises, Promises . . . I watch the Youtube clip all the time, sometimes pausing to try and get Donna McKechnie's moves down pat. I'm a terrible dancer, but I have SO much fun tossing my head back and forth and flopping my fat arms about.

The Nicest Kids In Town - Hairspray . . . The song is so catchy - and I love all the little snips of classic dances interwoven into the choreography! (The Mashed Potato, Pony, etc.)

Xanadu - Xanadu (Motion Picture) . . . this is one of the weirdest ones to dance along to (and try to mimic the moves from the movie), but something about the beret-wearing young men doing robotic movements with their white-gloved hands and the women in those ugly, UG-LY brown toned dresses kicking their legs high is so infectious! (Not to mention Olivia Newton John in those fantastic shoes and pants! And her hair!)

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Updated On: 10/18/08 at 07:36 PM

Many people are going to say this, but:
The jazz combo in "A CHORUS LINE"!

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The opening combo of A Chorus Line is fun.

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I always loved doing We Share Everything from Side Show, but it was always rather difficult finding someone willing to act as my Siamese twin.

Also, who here doesn't love wiggling around their room belting Rose's Turn?

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Definitely agree with a few of these. Of course the opening jazz combo of A Chorus Line, and I'm obsessed with every bit of choreography in "Positive" from Legally Blonde, that number is so fun.

My favorite original choreography to perform is "Buenos Aires" from Evita, and the WHOLE dance in the gym from West Side Story, but especially the Mambo. ( I recently played Bernardo in the show.) OH, and "The Music and the Mirror", from Chorus Line.

But I have to say the most fun dances I have ever done in a show were to "Simon Zealotes" and the title song in Jesus Christ Superstar. It wasn't the original choreography but the director/choreographer for that show was BRILLIANT and I have never had more fun dancing in a show.

EDIT: AH! And "Turkey Lurkey Time" too! I've spent many an hour pretending to be Donna McKechnie. I don't know how she moves like that! So good.

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Updated On: 10/19/08 at 09:33 PM

kissynose, I adore you! Fosse hands wins hands... well, hands outstretched, fingers, wrists, isolated, a snap...

Steam Heat from Pajama Game, Take off With Us from Fosse, Whatever Lola Wants from Damn Yankees, Hot Honey Rag from Chicago, You Can't Stop the Beat from Hairspray, I'm Alive from Xanadu, Mein Herr from Cabaret, and The Time Warp from The Rocky Horror. Love that Fosse!!!!

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Time Warp
Opening of A Chorus Line
Shoeless Joe

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I would love to learn "What You Want" from Legally Blonde & "I'm A Brass Band" from Sweet Charity.

Updated On: 10/20/08 at 09:45 AM

Oh and Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious - Mary Poppins

Opening of A Chorus Line
Opening of Thoroughly Modern Millie
Springtime for Hitler tap portion
Big Spender from Sweet Charity(have choreographed it)

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Oh God... having done Music Man, I can safely say that is one dance I never want to do again. Love the song, though. I'm sure it'll end up playing at my funeral...

EponineAmneris, if you can do Victoria's dance solo, I am forever in your debt. I've been trying to do that since I was in fifth grade!

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