Dancin'

Dancin' is a musical revue first produced in 1978, directed and choreographed by Bob Fosse, who won a Tony Award for the choreography. The show is a tribute to the art of dance, and the music is a collection of mostly American songs, many with a dance theme, from a wide variety of styles, from operetta to jazz to classical to marches to pop.

Production

Dancin' opened on Broadway at the Broadhurst Theatre on March 27, 1978. It then transferred to the Ambassador Theatre and ran for 1,774 performances (including previews). Additional choreography was by Christopher Chadman.

After the success of the dance-intensive A Chorus Line, Fosse proposed a show with little dialogue and singing. Fosse's concept for the show was to use classical and show music, popular music, rock and roll, Mozart, Bach, George M. Cohan, and contemporary music by Neil Diamond and Melissa Manchester, anything except a new score written by a collaborator. He stated publicly that the project would free him from the burden of an artistic partnership: "When you have collaborators, you have all those midnight meetings. I'm tired of those...So I just decided to meet myself at midnight." Fosse invited choreographer Graciela Daniele to contribute a few numbers, but she declined, saying "When you are out of ideas, call me. I have the feeling that once you get into it, you're going to want to do it all." Despite the lack of creative partners, Fosse still had to negotiate with his co-producer Bernard Jacobs, the president of The Shubert Organization, who objected to Fosse's risqué number depicting a tourist coping with New York City's then-notoriously seamy Times Square. The show's remaining numbers impressed audiences, and because Fosse co-produced the show, it became his biggest financial success in the theatre.

Dancin' (Guy song)

"Dancin'" is a song by American R&B group Guy recorded for their third studio album Guy III (2000). The song was released as the album's debut single in October 1999.

Although the group was long past their late-1980s/early-1990s heyday at this point, "Dancin'" would become Guy's highest charting single on the Billboard Hot 100 (and their only song to crack the top 40) to date, reaching #22 on that chart. It was also a top 5 hit on the R&B chart.

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External links

"Dancin'" Music video on YouTube

Keeping Time

Keeping Time is the second studio album by American actor, singer and songwriter Paul Jabara.

The album which was released on Casablanca Records in 1978 includes Jabara's song "Trapped in a Stairway" from the movie Thank God It's Friday, his own version of the Grammy Award winning "Last Dance" (originally recorded by Donna Summer) as well as the duets "Something's Missing" (with Summer) and "Take Good Care of My Baby / What's a Girl to Do" (with Pattie Brooks). The lead single from the album was "Dancin' (Lift Your Spirits Higher)".

Keeping Time was released on CD by Gold Legion in 2011.

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