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Publication: Dance Magazine
Publication Date: 01-APR-03 		Format: Online
Delivery: Immediate Online Access
Full Article Title: Dance theater.(Encores!)

Article Excerpt
On a February night in 1994, about 2,700 curiosity seekers went to City Center to witness the start of an experiment. It was a series called Encores!, and the idea was to resurrect old musicals--not the acknowledged masterpieces, but the ones that would otherwise languish unseen and unheard--in quickie productions poised somewhere between staged readings and straight concerts.

Three shows had been chosen, each to run for four performances. First up was Fiorello!, the 1959 Jerry Bock-Sheldon Harnick musical about New York's colorfully crusading Mayor La Guardia, who had, in 1943, saved the City Center building from the wrecker's ball. Most of the stage was taken up by the Coffee Club Orchestra, led by Rob...

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