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On Broadway: all steamed up: Kathleen Marshall's new "Pajama Game" salutes Fosse's classic moves.

Publication: Dance Magazine
Publication Date: 01-MAR-06 		Format: Online
Delivery: Immediate Online Access
Full Article Title: On Broadway: all steamed up: Kathleen Marshall's new "Pajama Game" salutes Fosse's classic moves.(Bob Fosse)

Article Excerpt
The way the story goes, it was Jerome Robbins who suggested to his co-director, George Abbott, that they give the job of choreographing their 1954 show Pajama Game to a newcomer named Bob Fosse.

While the show could certainly have coasted into a nice long run strictly on its other merits, it was Fosse's dance sequences that had the audience cheering on opening night. And the showstopper--that night and every night thereafter--was a little throwaway number salvaged from the trunk of the composers, Richard Adler and Jerry Ross, as a replacement for a song that wasn't working.

The show was about labor problems in a sleepwear plant, and the second act began with a union rally. When the rally song failed to ignite, it was replaced with "Steam Heat"--a jazzy ditty about how having a working radiator is no substitute for love. It had nothing...

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