Some of you may be professional dancers. Some (like myself) may not. But nonetheless, I'm sure MANY of you enjoy dancing around to your favorite Cast Recordings. Some of you may even (I know I am guilty of it) find clips of certain dance routines and practice them! My question is - what is your favorite dance to (try and) perform? Do you try to get the choreography exact? Do you add your own personal flairs? Do you gather a crowd of (trustworthy) friends into your living room to watch your incredible performance?
My favorites are:
Turkey Lurkey Time - Promises, Promises . . . I watch the Youtube clip all the time, sometimes pausing to try and get Donna McKechnie's moves down pat. I'm a terrible dancer, but I have SO much fun tossing my head back and forth and flopping my fat arms about.
The Nicest Kids In Town - Hairspray . . . The song is so catchy - and I love all the little snips of classic dances interwoven into the choreography! (The Mashed Potato, Pony, etc.)
Xanadu - Xanadu (Motion Picture) . . . this is one of the weirdest ones to dance along to (and try to mimic the moves from the movie), but something about the beret-wearing young men doing robotic movements with their white-gloved hands and the women in those ugly, UG-LY brown toned dresses kicking their legs high is so infectious! (Not to mention Olivia Newton John in those fantastic shoes and pants! And her hair!)
My sister and I are always doing the dance break from "One Step Closer" in "The Little Mermaid." One time, we did it in the parking lot of a Mexican restaurant and I dropped my sister.
I also love the dance for "You Can't Stop The Beat." My absolute favourite is the choreography from "Jellicle Songs For Jellicle Cats," but sadly, although I know it by heart, I can't do all of the steps. Also, I love to do the dance for "Moses" from the film version of "Singin' In The Rain."
In my pants, she has burst like the music of angels, the light of the sun! --Marius Pantsmercy
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I chose, and my world was shaken- So what? The choice may have been mistaken,
The choosing was not...
"Every day has the potential to be the greatest day of your life." - Lin-Manuel Miranda
"And when Idina Menzel is singing, I'm always slightly worried that her teeth are going to jump out of her mouth and chase me." - Schmerg_the_Impaler
The "Shake your junk" dance break in "Positive" in Legally Blonde is SO much fun. As is the dance break after "May I approach?" in "What You Want".
Give me some bars and I can do "Out Tonight" perfectly.
Of course the opening to A Chorus Line.
"Who says you can't bend over backwards and eat bugs if you want to? I guess the bugs would probably say you can't do that that, but assuming that they are willing and consenting bugs, then there's no problem. Let's wig out eating bugs."
-RuPaul
Yup, I second 'What You Want' from Legally Blonde. I don't even try to learn the actual steps, it's just fun to jump around to.
And the [title of show] choreography. I've been known to do the '2 nobodies' arm movement while rocking out in my car, the wing like movement from 'die vampire die' or my personal favorite, "these are shapes!".
Definitely agree with a few of these. Of course the opening jazz combo of A Chorus Line, and I'm obsessed with every bit of choreography in "Positive" from Legally Blonde, that number is so fun.
My favorite original choreography to perform is "Buenos Aires" from Evita, and the WHOLE dance in the gym from West Side Story, but especially the Mambo. ( I recently played Bernardo in the show.) OH, and "The Music and the Mirror", from Chorus Line.
But I have to say the most fun dances I have ever done in a show were to "Simon Zealotes" and the title song in Jesus Christ Superstar. It wasn't the original choreography but the director/choreographer for that show was BRILLIANT and I have never had more fun dancing in a show.
EDIT: AH! And "Turkey Lurkey Time" too! I've spent many an hour pretending to be Donna McKechnie. I don't know how she moves like that! So good.
I attend Point Park University as a Dance major and with alumni performing on Broadway and Touring, we are able to have wonderful,fun,and exciting master classes at school. Thus far, in my college career: Mia Price,then of the SPAMALOT tour taught us the ever-classic Bob Fosse's "Hot Honey Rag" which is always exciting to do. Most recently, two members of the National Tour of WICKED stopped by and taught us some choreography from the musical number, "Dancing Through Life". Also, Anthony Rapp and Elaine Stritch just stopped by the school to give performances/teach...
Steam Heat from Pajama Game, Take off With Us from Fosse, Whatever Lola Wants from Damn Yankees, Hot Honey Rag from Chicago, You Can't Stop the Beat from Hairspray, I'm Alive from Xanadu, Mein Herr from Cabaret, and The Time Warp from The Rocky Horror. Love that Fosse!!!!
Acting should be bigger than life. Scripts should be bigger than life. It should all be bigger than life.- Bette Davis
2016 These Paper Bullets (1/02) Our Mother's Brief Affair (1/06), Dragon Boat Racing (1/08), Howard - reading (1/28), Shear Madness (2/10), Fun Home (2/17), Women Without Men (2/18), Trip Of Love (2/21), The First Gentleman -reading (2/22), Southern Comfort (2/23), The Robber Bridegroom (2/24), She Loves Me (3/11), Shuffle Along (4/12), Shear Madness (4/14), Dear Evan Hansen (4/16), American Psycho (4/23), Tuck Everlasting (5/10), Indian Summer (5/15), Peer Gynt (5/18), Broadway's Rising Stars (7/11), Trip of Love (7/27), CATS (7/31), The Layover (8/17), An Act Of God (8/31), The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time (8/24), Heisenberg (10/12), Fiddler On The Roof (11/02), Othello (11/23), Dear Evan Hansen (11/26), Les Liaisons Dangereuses (12/21) 2017 In Transit (2/01), Groundhog Day (4/04), Ring Twice For Miranda (4/07), Church And State (4/10), The Lucky One (4/19), Ernest Shackleton Loves Me (5/16), Building The Wall (5/19), Indecent (6/01), Six Degrees of Separation (6/09), Marvin's Room (6/28), A Doll's House Pt 2 (7/25) Curvy Widow (8/01)
--- Victoria the white cat's solo during the invitation to the ball in CATS
--- Cassie's MUSIC AND THE MIRROR from A CHORUS LINE
Really ANYTHING from ACL
"TO LOVE ANOTHER PERSON IS TO SEE THE FACE OF GOD"- LES MISERABLES---
"THERE'S A SPECIAL KIND OF PEOPLE KNOWN AS SHOW PEOPLE... WE'RE BORN EVERY NIGHT AT HALF HOUR CALL!"--- CURTAINS
Opening of A Chorus Line Opening of Thoroughly Modern Millie Springtime for Hitler tap portion Big Spender from Sweet Charity(have choreographed it)
A Chorus Line revival played its final Broadway performance on August 17, 2008. The tour played its final performance on August 21, 2011. A new non-equity tour started in October 2012 played its final performance on March 23, 2013. Another non-equity tour launched on January 20, 2018. The tour ended its US run in Kansas City and then toured throughout Japan August & September 2018.
Oh God... having done Music Man, I can safely say that is one dance I never want to do again. Love the song, though. I'm sure it'll end up playing at my funeral...
EponineAmneris, if you can do Victoria's dance solo, I am forever in your debt. I've been trying to do that since I was in fifth grade!
In my pants, she has burst like the music of angels, the light of the sun! --Marius Pantsmercy