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Honi Coles

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Originally created high speed rhythm tap
Locked himself in room & practiced so he could “make it”
Sped things up, used more taps, complicated the patterns
Became king at the Hoofer’s Club

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Cholly Atkins

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Worked a “new blend”- modern for his time
Part of “The Rhythm Pals” in 1935
Was in 11 major films
Offered a job with the “Cotton Club Boys” due to his choreographic ability

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Jerome Robbins

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Choreographed: Fiddler on the Roof
Choreographer, director, original concept, Tony for best choreography for West Side Story
Choreographed & directed: Gypsy, On The Town, The King and I

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Paul Draper

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Known for tapping to classical music on the concert stage
Was labeled a Liberal during McCarthy era & couldn’t get work
Black listed as a communist & his career stopped

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Bunny Briggs

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An exception in the 1960s- constantly employed
A black dancer the white dancers knew
His strong mother turned down his chance to tour with Bill Robinson

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Michael Kidd

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Choreographed: Guys and Dolls, Can Can

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Bob Fosse

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Choreographed: The Pajama Game
Choreographed & directed: Fosse, Chicago, Sweet Charity, Damn Yankees, Pippin’
Creator of the Fosse style

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Jack Cole

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Choreographed: Funny Thing on The Way to the Forum

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Gower Champion

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Choreographed & directed: Hello Dolly, Bye Bye Birdie

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Michael Bennett

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Choreographed: Promises Promises, Company

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Hermes Pan

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Worked with Fred Astaire (3 camera angles)

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Baby Lawrence

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Not elegant style
Hoofer Club
Made money at a young age
Concentrated on sound

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Agnes de Mille

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Choreographed: Oklahoma!
Made dream ballet popular
Brought ballet to the Broadway stage

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Class Act

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Top hot & coat tails

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Vernacular dance in the 60s

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It was at a low
Ballet was booming
Dance critics & dancers raised question of male dancers beng “sissy”
Broadway musicals still had traces of dance
Dance did appear on TV, but it was mostly modern & ballet

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Status of Broadways musicals in the 40s

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Jazz music was complicated and dancers had a hard time
Every song progressed the story
No concept musicals
Think classic Broadway

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Status of Broadway musicals in the 50s

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Musical theatre “coasted”
Many imitated Rogers & Hammerstein: stories based on romantic love; music, lyrics, script, choreo, sets
Stories based on romantic love

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Status of Broadway musicals in the 60s

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Expensive
Inflation
Hippies

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Trends in musicals of the 70

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Concept musicals
Rock musical (Jesus Christ Superstar)
Inflation is happening
Religious

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Gane Kelly’s style & contribution to film dance

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Athletic
Low to the ground
More of a rhythm tapper
He made dance manly
Helped a lot of stars learn how to dance
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1940s Musicals

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Oklahoma!
Carousel
Annie Get Your Gun
Kiss Me Kate
One The Town
South Pacific
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1950s Musicals

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Guys & Dolls
The King & I
Can Can
The Pajama Game
My Fair Lady
Damn Yankees
West Side Story
Music Man
The Sound of Music
Once Upon a Mattress
Gypsy
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1960s Musicals

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Bye Bye Birdie
The Unsinkable Molly Brown
A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum
Fiddler on the Roof
Funny Girl
Hello Dolly
Sweet Charity
Mame
Cabaret
Hair
Promises, Promises
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1970s Musicals

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Purlie
Company
Grease
Jesus Christ Superstar
Pippin
Chicago
A Chorus Line
Annie
Best Little Whorehouse in Texas
Dancin'
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Oklahoma!

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Choreographer: Agnes de Mille
Composer/Lyricist: Rogers & Hammerstein
1940s

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Carousel

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Choreographer: Agnes de Mille
Composer/Lyricist: Rogers & Hammerstein
1940s

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Kiss Me Kate

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Choreographer: Hanya Holm
Music: Cole Porter
1940s

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On The Town

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Choreographer: Jerome Robbins
Composer: Leonard Berstein
1940s

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Annie Get Your Gun

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Choreographer: Helen Tamiris
Music: Irving Berlin
1940s

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South Pacific

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Composer/Lyricist: Rogers & Hammerstein

1940s

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Guys & Dolls

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Choreographer: Michael Kidd
Composer/Lyricist: Frank Loesser
Loesser’s 2nd musical (1st was Finian’s Rainbow)
Based on a group of short stories
Songs: A Bushel & a Peck, Luck Be a Lady, Sit Down You’re Rockin’ the Boat, Take Back Your Mink
1950s

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King & I

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Choreographer: Jerome Robbins
Composer/Lyricist: Rogers & Hammerstein
Romantic location–lagoons of Siam
1950s

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Can Can

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Choreographer: Michael Kidd
Composer: Cole Porter
Featured Dancer: Gwen Verdon
Story: Scandal over can can dancing in Paris
Songs: C’est Magnifique, I Love Paris, It’s Alright With Me
1950s- 1953

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The Pajama Game

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Choreographer: Bob Fosse (Abbott “took a chance” on him)
Show Doctor: George Abbott
Songs: Steam Heat was a huge hit
1950s- 1954

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My Fair Lady

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Composer/Lyricist: Lerner & Loewe
Notable Performers: Julie Andres, Rex Harrison
Songs: I Could Have Danced All Night
Longest running musical of its time
Highest art in costuming and sets
1950s- 1955
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Damn Yankees

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Choreographer: Bob Fosse
Composer: Adler & Rose
Director/Book: Abbott & Wallop
Notable Performers: Gwen Verdon played Lola
1950s- 1956
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West Side Story

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Choreographer/Director/Original Concept/Tony for Best Choreography: Jerome Robbins
Lyricist: Stephen Sondheim
Music: Leonard Bernstein
Story: Gangs in NY; actors were like gangs even in rehearsals
Show relied heavily on dance
1950s- 1957

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Music Man

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Book/Music/Lyrics: Meredith Wilson
Choreographer: Onna White
Notable Performer: Robert Preston
Story: A con man scams to convince parents he can teach their musically-disinclined children to play a musical instrument.
1950s- 1957
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The Sound of Music

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Composer/Lyricist: Rogers & Hammerstein (Hammerstein died the next year)
Notable Performer: Mary Martin played Maria
Story: About the family of the Von Trapps during WW2
Won a Tony for Best Musical
Ran 1,200 performances
1950s- 1959

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Once Upon a Mattress

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Director: George Abbbott
Choreographer: Joe Layton
Notable Performer: Carol Burnett
Started off Broadway
1950s- 1959
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Gypsy

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Lyricist: Sondheim
Composer: Julie Styne
Director/Choreographer: Jerome Robbins
Notable Performer: Ethel Merman
Songs: Everything’s Coming Up Roses, I Had a Dream, Rose’s Turn
Story: June and Louise and their stage mama
1950s- 1959

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Bye Bye Birdie

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Book/Music/Lyrics: Steward, Strouse, Adams
Director/Choreographer: Gower Champion
Notable Performer: Chita Rivera
Story: Conrad Birdie (Elvis type star) is drafted; take-off on Elivis/musical comedy jab at Rock n Roll
1960s- 1960

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The Unsinkable Molly Brown

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Composer/Lyricist: Meredith Wilson
Songs: Belly Up to the Bar
Very much like the Music Man
Story: Tomboy Molly Tobin wants to find a rich husband. Marries a man that gives her what she wants. They become society people and are accepted by European royalty. They go home by sailing on the Titanic. Titanic sinks but Molly is saved and returns home to Johnny who built her home.
1960s- 1960
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A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum

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Composer/Lyricist: Burt Shevelove, Stephen Sondheim
Choreographer: Jack Cole
Producer: Harold Prince
Director: George Abbott
Notable Songs: Lovely
Story: Story about a slave wanting his freedom and making a deal for his freedom, and everything begins to go wrong.
1960s- 1962

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Fiddler on the Roof

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Composer/Lyricist: Jerry Bock and Sheldon Harnick
Choreographer: Jerome Robbins
Producer: Harold Prince
Notable Songs: Matchmaker, If I Were a Rich Man
Story: Matchmaker finding a match for the daughter. Daughter wants someone else. Going against social trends.
Longest running musical until Grease came out
1960s- 1964

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Funny Girl

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Composer/Lyricist: Julie Styne, Bob Merrill
Notable Performer: Barbara Streisand
Notable Songs: Don’t Rain on My Parade
1960s- 1964

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Hello Dolly

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Composer/Lyricist: Jerry Herman
Choreographer/Director: Gower Champion
Producer: David Merrick
Notable Performer: Carol Channing
Story: Widow and matchmaker looking for a husband
1960s- 1964
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Sweet Charity

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Composer/Lyricist: Dorothy Fields, Cy Coleman
Director/Choreographer: Bob Fosse
Notable Performer: Gwen Verdon
Notable Songs: Big Spender, There’s Gotta Be Something Better Than This, Rhythm of Life
Story: Taxi dancer Charity continues to have faith in the human race despite her disappointment. Maybe Oscar will be the one to do it. Wants to get out of her profession of being a taxi dancer.
1960s- 1966

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Mame

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Composer: jerry Herman
Choreographer: Onna White
Notable Performer: Angela Lansbury
Notable Songs: We Need a Little Christmas
Story: Mame’s bohemian lifestyle is interrupted when she has to take care of her late brother’s son. She does everything with her own dramatic flair.
1960s-1966

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Cabaret

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Composer/Lyricist: John Kander, Fred Ebb
Choreographer: Ronald Field
Director: Harold Prince
Story: An aspiring writer travels to Berlin in search of inspiration. happens upon a girl at a cabaret. She ends up moving in with him, WW2 time.
1960s- 1966
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Hair

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Composer: Galt MacDermot
Lyrics/Books: Gerome Ragnie and James Rado
Choreographer: Twlya Tharp
Notable Songs: Let the Sunshine In, Age of Aquarius
Story: Politically active tribe of long-haired hippies. Love-filled way of life is thrown into disarray when one of them is drafted. Hippie Life
Cultural significance
1960s- 1967

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Promises, Promises

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Composer/Lyricist: Burt Bacharach, Hal David
Choreographer: Michael Bennet
Adapted from a play
Story: Guy loans his apartment in exchange for a promotion. Apartment begins being used as a place of an extra-marital affair. Guy must decide how much he is willing to sacrifice for advancement in the insurance company.
1960s- 1968

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Purlie

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Composer: Gary Geld
Lyricsit: Peter Udell
Libretto: Ossie Davis
Choreographer: Louis Johnson
Story: Black show with a black sound
Cultural significance
1970s- 1970
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Company

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Composer/Lyricist: Stephen Sondheim
Director/Producer: Harold Prince
Choreographer: Michael Bennett
STory: Robert is a single man surrounded by married couples on his 35th birthday. He tries to make sense of marriage and comes to terms with what it means to be alive.
Example of a “revusical”- combining elements of a revue and a musical
1970s- 1970

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Grease

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Composer/Lyricist: Jim Jacobs & Warren Casey
Choreographer: Patricia Birch
Notable Songs: Grease Lightning
1970s- 1970

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Jesus Christ Superstar

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Composer: Andrew Lloyd Webber
Lyricist: Tim Rice
Producer: Robert Stigwood
Notable Songs: I Don't Know How to Love Him
Godspell had the same theme
Story: Tells the story of the final 6 days in life of Jesus through Judas.
ROCK OPERA
1970s- 1971
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Pippin

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Composer/Lyricist: Stephen Schwartz
Director/Choreographer: Bob Fosse
Notable Performers: Ben Veren, Chita Rivera
Story: Pippin tries to find meaning through his life, sex, marriage, religion.
1970s- 1972

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Chicago

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Director/Choreographer: Bob Fosse
Notable Performers: Chita Rivera, Gwen Verdon
Notable Songs: Cell Block Tango
Story: Roxie shoots her lover. Sent to murderess row with Velma Kelly. Desperate for fame. Billy Flynn helps them win their cases.
Set as a reflection of Vaudeville and Burlesque
A Chorus Line opened the same year and won all the Tony’s
1970s- 1975

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A Chorus Line

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Composer/Lyricist: Marvin Hamlisch, Edward Cleban
Director/Choreographer: Micahel Bennet
Story: To show a dancer’s life and the struggles of wanting a job
Created through workshopping; based off of an idea not just an actual story.
1970s- 1975

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Annie

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Composer/Lyricist: Martin Charlin
Notable Songs: Tomorrow
Story: Children in an orphanage
1970s- 1977

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Best Little Whorehouse in Texas

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Choreographer: Tommy Tune
Notable Songs: I Will Always Love You
Story: A brothel that has been operating for more than a century is forced to close down when television reporter decides to make the illegal activity an issue.
1970s- 1977

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Dancin’

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Director/Choreographer: Bob Fosse & Graciela Danielle
Style: Mostly singing and dancing, barely any dialogue, a dance revue
1970s- 1978

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