Grand Hotel. My One and Only. Nine. The Best Little Whorehouse in
Texas. A Day in Hollywood/A Night in the Ukraine. The Will Rogers
Follies. For two decades, Tommy Tune was the maestro presiding over
a string of glittering Broadway musicals that took the tradition of
complete musical staging by a director-choreographer into a new era
defined by spectacle and technology. He was last in a grand lineage
led by Jerome Robbins, Gower Champion, Bob Fosse, and Michael
Bennett, but also provided a link to a new generation of
choreographers-turned-directors like Susan Stroman, Jerry Mitchell,
and Casey Nicholaw. Unlike his fellow director-choreographers, Tune
also maintained a successful performing career. His nine Tony
Awards (plus a tenth, for Lifetime Achievement) were earned across
four categories, not only for choreography and direction, but also
as both featured and lead actor in a musical, for Seesaw and My One
and Only-a distinction no one else can claim. Tune took the musical
forward by looking backward, bringing satiric energy and
contemporary style to a trove of show business antecedents-from
clog dancing to showgirl formations, from precision kick lines to
Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers-style ballroom glides. He did the
same with his concert and cabaret performances, drawing on classics
from the Gershwins, Irving Berlin, and Cole Porter and performing
them not as nostalgia but as vital, immediate statements of
personal philosophy. Everything is Choreography: The Musical
Theater of Tommy Tune is the first full scale book about the career
of this prodigious artist. It celebrates and examines with a
critical eye his major projects, and summons for readers a glorious
period of dance, performance, and theatrical imagination.
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