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Summary:

"Grand Hotel. My One and Only. Nine. The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas. A Day in Hollywood/A Night in the Ukraine. The Will Rogers Follies. For two decades, Tommy Tune was the maestro presiding over a string of glittering Broadway musicals that took the tradition of complete musical staging by a director-choreographer into a new era defined by spectacle and technology. He was last in a grand lineage led by Jerome Robbins, Gower Champion, Bob Fosse, and Michael Bennett, but also provided a link to a new generatino of choreographers-turned-directors like Susan Stroman, Jerry Mitchell, and Casey Nicholaw. Tune took the musical forward by looking backward, bringing satiric energy and contemporary style to a trove of show business antecedents- from clog dancing to showgirl formations, from precision kick lines to Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers-style ballroom glides. He did the same with his concert and cabaret performances, drawing on classics from the Gershwins, Irving Berlin, and Cole Porter and performing them not as nostalgia but as vital, immediate statements of personal philiosophy. Everything is Choreography: The Musical Theater of Tommy Tine is the first book about the career of this prodigious artist. It celebrates and examines with a critical eye his major projects, and summons for readers a glorious period of dance, performance, and theatrical imagination".

Table of Contents:

• Broadway baby
• Gents and working girls
• Double feature
• City of women
• A Gershwin tune
• A great place to make a show
• The Broadway melody of 1991
• Song and dance man
• Everything is still choreography.

Author/Creator:

Winkler, Kevin , author

Languages:

English

Language Notes:

English text.

Main Work:

Everything is choreography: the musical theater of Tommy Tune [by Winkler, K.]

Related Series:

Broadway legacies

Subjects:

Tune, Tommy — Criticism and interpretation

Choreographers — United States

Musical theater producers and directors — United States

Musicals — New York (State) — New York — History and criticism

Musicals — United States — History and criticism

Tune, Tommy

Criticism and interpretation

Choreographers

Musical theater producers and directors

Musicals

United States

New York (State) — New York

Genres:

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

General Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 255-257) and index.

Physical Description:

xiii, 282 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm.

Physical Characteristics:

illustration

Call Numbers:

ML429.T86 W5 2021

ISBNs:

9780190090739 (hardcover)
0190090731 (hardcover)

Library of Congress Control Numbers:

2021027797

OCLC Numbers:

1252412852