Swing! at Mill Mountain Playhouse

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'Two thirds rhythm and one third soul.' That's how Fats Waller defined the uniquely American form of popular music and dance known as 'swing.' Requiring only joyful enthusiasm and a ready partner, swing exploded out of pre-war Harlem's hotbed of youth culture and swept the world. It shattered ethnic and cultural barriers, generating specialty styles such as Jive, Swing, Lindy Hop, West Coast Swing, and Hip-Hop Swing. SWING! celebrates this remarkable diversity to the beat of the most exhilarating songs of the period. But as this enthralling song-and-dance show makes abundantly clear, swing was never a time or place -- it has always been a state of mind!

Original Concept by Paul Kelly; Original Direction and Choreography by Lynn Taylor-Corbett

Authors

• Alex C. Kramer
• Andy Razaf
• Ann Hampton Callaway
• Arthur Hamilton
• B. Feyhe
• B. Plater
• Benny Goodman
• Bill Elliott
• Bob Wills
• Casey MacGill
• Charles Christian
• Charlie Tobias
• Chick Webb
• Clarence Williams
• Don George
• Don Raye
• Dorothy Fields
• Duke Ellington
• E. Johnson
• Earl H. Hagen
• Edgar DeLange
• Edgar M. Sampson
• Everett Bradley
• Gerald Marks
• H. James (i)
• Harold Arlen
• Harry Warren
• Hoagy Carmichael
• Hughie Prince
• Ilene Reid
• Irving Kahal
• Irving Mills
• J. Hodges
• Jack Murphy
• James R. Mundy
• Jerome Kern
• Jerry Gray
• Jimmy McHugh
• Joan Whitney
• Joe Garland
• Johnny Mercer
• Jonathan Smith
• Juan Tizol
• L. Berry
• Lew Brown
• Lewis Raymond
• Louis Prima
• Lynne Taylor-Corbett
• Mack David
• Mack Gordon
• Michael Antin
• Michael Heitzman
• Oscar Hammerstein II
• Otto A. Harbach
• Paul Francis Webster
• Paul Kelly (i)
• Sam H. Slept
• Sammy Fain
• Sean Martin Hingston
• Seymour Simons
• Sid Kuller
• T. Bradshaw
• Tommy Duncan
• Walter Bishop
• William “Count“ Basie

Tony Awards and Nominations for Swing!