Tap dancing musicals

[MarkRascati]

Posted: 7/13/07 at 1:43am

Can some generous person provide a list of tap dancing musicals that do not include 42nd street or Anything Goes?

That would be greeeaaat.

[dancingthrulife04]

Posted: 7/13/07 at 1:46am

Thoroughly Modern Millie

Updated On: 7/13/07 at 01:46 AM

[FutureAladdinOnB'Way]

Posted: 7/13/07 at 1:47am

I was just about to type that dancingthrulife!

[The Distinctive Baritone]

Posted: 7/13/07 at 1:47am

No, No, Nanette

[FutureAladdinOnB'Way]

Posted: 7/13/07 at 1:56am

A Chorus Line, but only during "I Can Do That"

[LoringsGuy]

Posted: 7/13/07 at 1:58am

The Tap Dance Kid

[MarkRascati]

Posted: 7/13/07 at 1:59am

MORE MORE MORE :)

[FutureAladdinOnB'Way]

Posted: 7/13/07 at 2:00am

Xanadu has a tap dance sequence, correct?

[LoringsGuy]

Posted: 7/13/07 at 2:03am

The tap dancing Ku Klux Klan in JERRY SPRINGER.

[Hairspraydoll]

Posted: 7/13/07 at 2:04am

Crazy For You
Dames at Sea

[LoringsGuy]

Posted: 7/13/07 at 2:05am

My One and Only

[allofmylife]

Posted: 7/13/07 at 2:14am

George M
Sophisticated Ladies (depending on who's playing the Hines role).

[alterego]

Posted: 7/13/07 at 2:16am

ON YOUR TOES and ME AND MY GIRL.

[kyleorlando]

Posted: 7/13/07 at 2:28am

The Tap Dance Kid.

La Cage... also has tapping.

I was in a production of Pippin that was heavy tap for the Leading Player.

[IAMmyownMUSICAL]

Posted: 7/13/07 at 3:38am

Singing in the Rain
Funny Girl
Follies

[SeanMartin]

Posted: 7/13/07 at 6:46am

Virtually anything written in the 1920s or 30s, but if that scares you, then THE BOY FRIEND.

[Jon]

Posted: 7/13/07 at 6:55am

Jelly's Last Jam

A Day in Hollywood/A Night in the Ukraine

The original version of CABARET had tap dancing during "Sitting Pretty".

[dancinfan]

Posted: 7/13/07 at 7:23am

tap shows
Bring In 'Da Noise, Bring In 'Da Funk
Walking Happy
Best Foot Forward
White Christmas
The Band Wagon
Sugar Babies
Best Little Whorehouse in Texas (and Whorehouse Goes Public)
Never Gonna Dance
The Grand Hotel
Will Rogers' Follies
Tap Dogs
Stomp, Riverdance - in a way

shows with tap in them
Drowsy Chaperone
Spamalot
The Producers
Mary Poppins
Cats
Oklahoma! (Kansas City)
Hot Feet (Thanks for the correction - I didn't see it and assumed it was all tap.)
Footloose - not sure, but it would make sense

Isn't Pal Joey a tap show?



Updated On: 7/13/07 at 07:23 AM

[dancinfan]

Posted: 7/13/07 at 3:45pm

In A Chorus Line, there's also the tap combination in which Paul falls.

[LilBwayLady]

Posted: 7/13/07 at 5:33pm

42nd Street

[vinnylin]

Posted: 7/13/07 at 5:55pm

Jelly's Last Jam

[Josephine2]

Posted: 7/13/07 at 5:57pm

dancinfan, what a great and extensive list. I would categorize Hot Feet more as a show with tap in it, rather than a tap show.


Sophisticated Ladies and Black & Blue also have a lot of tap.

[MarkRascati]

Posted: 7/13/07 at 7:53pm

Thanks a bunch guys!


I actually think the show we're doing next year is "Crazy For You".. since it sounds like something we'd do.

Does anyone know anything about it? Are there good featured guy parts in it?

[istillbelieve24601]

Posted: 7/13/07 at 7:57pm

Crazy for You- It's got your basic song and dance lead couple, then the villian (Lank) which is a good acting role but no singing and just chorus dancing, a dance-producer modeled off Ziegfeld called Bella Zangler, who has a song or two and quite a few lines, and then some great ensemble parts.

It was basically a Gershwin revue turned into a badly plotted show in the 1990s- as a result, the music is brilliant, dancing is brilliant, and the plot and book sucks.

[TapTapTapioca]

Posted: 7/13/07 at 8:04pm

A Chorus Line, but only during "I Can Do That"

That isn't really a tap dance song. In the stage production Mike doesn't actually tap dance or do a tap dancing routine.