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What's your favorite "dance number" of a musical?
#50re: What's your favorite 'dance number' of a musical?
Posted: 8/27/05 at 4:31pm
Hands down for me
"the audition" in 42nd street
OR
"42nd street/finale ultimo" in 42nd street. I luv when they're all dancing on the glowing stair case, and the finale ultimo is tap heaven.
#51re: What's your favorite 'dance number' of a musical?
Posted: 8/27/05 at 4:41pm
"One" from A Chorus Line
"Steam Heat" from The Pajama Game
"Be A Santa" from Subways are for Sleeping...of course I never saw this one...but the thought of a line of dancing Santas seems irresistable!
"Hot Honey Rag" from Chicago
"If You Could See Her" and "Willkomen" from Cabaret
"You pile up enough tomorrows, and you'll find you are left with nothing but a lot of empty yesterdays. I don't know about you, but I'd like to make today worth remembering." --Harold Hill from The Music Man
#52re: What's your favorite 'dance number' of a musical?
Posted: 8/27/05 at 5:29pmBombay Dreams'Finale
"People have their opinions and that doesn't mean that their opinions are wrong or right. I just take it with a grain of salt because opinions are like as*holes, everyone has one".
-Felicia Finley-
#53re: What's your favorite 'dance number' of a musical?
Posted: 8/27/05 at 7:00pm
For me, it's definitely "Audition" from 42nd Street and pretty much every number from West Side Story.
~Steven
lfae
Leading Actor Joined: 7/27/05
#54re: What's your favorite 'dance number' of a musical?
Posted: 8/28/05 at 3:49amSaw an INCREDIBLE 'Too Darn Hot' from Kiss Me, Kate this July. Wow!
#55re: What's your favorite 'dance number' of a musical?
Posted: 8/28/05 at 7:16am
Hard to think back as so many over so long!!!
MUSIC AND THE MIRROR and ONE - A CHORUS LINE
RIVIERA RAGE - IRENE
WHAT'S NEW BUENOS AIRES - EVITA
JELLICLE BALL - CATS (the only thing I liked in that show)
HUNDREDS OF GIRLS - MACK AND MABEL
ANYTHING GOES - ANYTHING GOES
MIRROR, MIRROR - FOLLIES (London)
WILLOMANIA - WILL RODGERS FOLLIES
WILKOMMEN - CABARET
WE ARE WHAT WE ARE - LA CAGE (original)
LA CAGE AUX FOLLES - LA CAGE (new)
YOU CAN'T STOP THE BEAT - HAIRSPRAY
Probably loads more!
"Your eyes..... they shine like the pants on my blue serge suit"
sanda
Broadway Legend Joined: 11/10/04
#56re: What's your favorite 'dance number' of a musical?
Posted: 8/28/05 at 10:50amBottle dance - Fiddler on the roof
#57re: What's your favorite 'dance number' of a musical?
Posted: 8/28/05 at 11:27amRich Man's Frug - Sweet Charity.
"You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view - until you climb into his skin and walk around in it."
To Kill A Mockingbird
To Kill A Mockingbird
#58re: What's your favorite 'dance number' of a musical?
Posted: 8/28/05 at 12:32pm
The Dance at the Gym, Cool- "West Side Story" (film)
A Lot of Livin To Do-"Bye Bye Birdie" (old film)
"No two shows are alike in the making. Each show is a living
piece of your life in a small unreal world with its own character
and integrity; its own new set of memorable experiences and
incredible happenings. You begin to love and adapt to its strangeness.
Dreams harden into substance. Values come into focus. You wish
it would never end. The dream world vanishes like mist before a
rising sun; part of you vanishes with it. And back you land in the
real world with a thud- fogged, uneasy, jittery, difficult to get
along with. There is only one cure. A new show. A new, small
unreal world; new visions, experiences, incredible happenings.
Again you love it, adapt to it, wish it would never end.
But end it does. Another part of you vanishes.
That's show business."-Anonymous
#59re: What's your favorite 'dance number' of a musical?
Posted: 8/28/05 at 4:26pm
"chrous line wins
hands down
---desperately waits for revival!"
stage_door76, I couldn't have said it better myself. I was too young to see the original, so I've only been able to enjoy it through amateur productions, taped performances, and the horrible movie. As soon as I saw this thread title, I immediately thought of A Chrous Line, and I was surprised that so few people were mentioning it. (Dancing Through Life is hardly a dance number and definitely not comparable to those mentioned here!)
ACL: One, Music and the Mirror, I Hope I Get It (I just like watching dance auditions)
West Side Story: America, Dance at the Gym, Prologue
Like a firework unexploded
Wanting life but never knowing how
Wanting life but never knowing how
dancinfan
Broadway Star Joined: 8/9/04
#60re: What's your favorite 'dance number' of a musical?
Posted: 8/28/05 at 8:24pmI guess more people here are familiar with the film version of the show than the complete stage version, so I will put in my vote for the Somewhere Ballet from West Side Story.
#61re: What's your favorite 'dance number' of a musical?
Posted: 8/28/05 at 8:33pm
LA CAGE AUX FOLLES from LA CAGE AUX FOLLES
42nd STREET from 42nd STREET
#62re: What's your favorite 'dance number' of a musical?
Posted: 8/28/05 at 9:13pmcool - west side story
#63re: What's your favorite 'dance number' of a musical?
Posted: 9/16/05 at 3:27pmOne from A Chorus Line, the adution from 42nd street, and You Can't Stop the Beat from Hairspray made me want to get up and start dancing.
#64re: What's your favorite 'dance number' of a musical?
Posted: 9/16/05 at 3:30pmSMALL HOUSE OF UNCLE THOMAS -- from the king & I.
Mind is Mantra.
Sant
Broadway Legend Joined: 9/12/04
#65re: What's your favorite 'dance number' of a musical?
Posted: 9/16/05 at 5:19pm
Numbers with strictly music & dance only:
RICH MAN'S FRUG - Sweet Charity
JELLICLE BALL - Cats
HOT HONEY RAG - Chicago
Numbers including singing:
ALL THAT JAZZ - Chicago
CELL BLOCK TANGO - Chicago
JELLICLE SONGS FOR JELLICLE CATS - Cats
broadwaybelter
Broadway Legend Joined: 11/26/04
#66re: What's your favorite 'dance number' of a musical?
Posted: 9/16/05 at 5:47pmyou cant stop the beat-hairspray
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