What exactly is a frug?
What exactly is a frug?
SorryGrateful
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/10/05
#0What exactly is a frug?
Posted: 6/24/05 at 9:38amI've been pondering this...
popcultureboy
Broadway Legend Joined: 7/23/03
#1re: What exactly is a frug?
Posted: 6/24/05 at 9:44amI guess we'll have to ask a rich man.
Gothampc
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/20/03
#2re: What exactly is a frug?
Posted: 6/24/05 at 9:47amhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frug
Bluemoon
Broadway Legend Joined: 12/28/04
#3re: What exactly is a frug?
Posted: 6/24/05 at 10:01amAs someone who is old enough to have actually done the frug (and the watusi!) in the 60's, it's a graceless, jerking-movement dance. Good aerobic activity, though. I'm embarrassed when I look at it now.
SorryGrateful
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/10/05
#4re: What exactly is a frug?
Posted: 6/24/05 at 10:04amHmmm, that's actually not nearly as exciting as I had hoped. But good to know!
#5re: What exactly is a frug?
Posted: 6/24/05 at 10:21amHmmm I was there too in the basement parties, God forbid if any ancient "huge" video's every emerge from that era, we will all be put to shame!. I can ONLY same that was was before shaped the way of things today on the dance floor!. So there, thats my two cents worth!. But it was a hell of a lot of GREAT pure clean fun back then!.
SamIAm
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/18/04
#6re: What exactly is a frug?
Posted: 6/25/05 at 10:39am
Oh My! Now there's a dance I haven't thought of in years...yes, I do remember it.
Right along with The Pony, the Mashed Potato and the Stroll....and let's not forget the Peppermint Twist and Chubby Checker :)
#7re: What exactly is a frug?
Posted: 6/25/05 at 10:43amGo see the boys and girls in Sweet Charity.
"I broke the boundaries. It wasn't cool to be in plays- especially if you were in sports & I was in both." - Ashton Kutcher
#8re: What exactly is a frug?
Posted: 6/25/05 at 10:47am
I may be wrong ( I didn't see the link), but isn't it Frugue?
*edit* Just checked. Hmmm, Guess I've been calling it Frugue all these years. It sounds better than "Frug"
#9re: What exactly is a frug?
Posted: 6/25/05 at 10:55amSamIAm- Will you teach me the Peppermint Twist or do I have to call Jerry Mitchell?
"I broke the boundaries. It wasn't cool to be in plays- especially if you were in sports & I was in both." - Ashton Kutcher
Ann_Margrock
Stand-by Joined: 9/8/04
#10re: What exactly is a frug?
Posted: 6/25/05 at 10:56am
It's written FRUG. It's pronounced FROOG.
At least that's how Fosse pronounced it when he spoke of it.
#11re: What exactly is a frug?
Posted: 6/25/05 at 10:59am
If it's pronounced "Froog", then it should be "Frugue"...I'll have to do a check...
*Just did a check online and it looks like I'm not the only one who spells it "Frugue"
Guess it could be spelled either or...
Ann_Margrock
Stand-by Joined: 9/8/04
#12re: What exactly is a frug?
Posted: 6/25/05 at 11:03am
Justice,
I checked all of the different cast recordings of "Charity" I own and on all of them the word is spelled "Frug".
#13re: What exactly is a frug?
Posted: 6/25/05 at 2:09pmNot to be confused with "fugue," which is a psychiatric, amnesia-like disorder during which a person my change identities and move locations without being fully aware of their behavior. But sometimes that happens to you when you're really involved with doing the Frug.
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