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On Broadway: is opera edging Broadway in innovative new choreography?

Publication: Dance Magazine
Publication Date: 01-OCT-05 		Format: Online
Delivery: Immediate Online Access

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Broadway musicals were breaking box-office records this summer, and theater observers were happily comparing the bonanza to the good old days. With "Sold Out" signs frequently posted at the newbies--The Light in the Piazza, Spamalot, Dirty Rotten Scoundrels and The Putnam County Spelling Bee-and older shows like Avenue Q, Mamma Mia! and Wicked still packing them in, tourists were grabbing tickets to old standbys like Phantom of the Opera.

What did these eight shows have in common, apart from their packed houses? Very little interest in dance. I've described in this space a certain kind of show--Light in the Piazza and Phantom are good examples--more akin to opera than to the kind of dance-driven musical theater pioneered by Jerome Robbins. But just as Broadway can sometimes seem to be aspiring to opera, opera is more and more...

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