On Your Toes

On Your Toes is a musical with music by Richard Rodgers and Lorenz Hart song texts by. The book was written in a collaboration of Rodgers and Hart with George Abbott. The premiere took place on 11 April 1936 at the Imperial Theatre in New York. The premiere took place in London's West End at the Palace Theatre on February 5, 1937. The West German premiere took place in English on 16 September 1990 at the Theatre at the Forum in Ludwigsburg by the Stuttgart Ballet.

Formation

Rodgers and Hart took with On Your Toes for the first time in the history of the "Book Musical " to use the attempt to ballet as an action- supporting part in the play structure. The play addresses the comedic relationship between high and popular culture. Allusions to the New York theater genres vaudeville and burlesque are combined into a musical comedy with a continuous action. As for the stage dance, the ballet La Princesse Zenobia, which parodies the conservative- Russian school, understood as the modern American form of stage dance jazz ballet Slaughter on Tenth Avenue is compared. For the choreography Rodgers and Hart won the 1933, the United States -down George Balanchine. The joint work was continued at the musicals Babes in Arms (1937 ), I Married an Angel ( 1938) and The Boys from Syracuse (1938). Balanchine as the founder of neo-classicism, however, was also attacked for this highly successful parody of classical ballet. The success of On Your Toes led the development to further integration of artistic dance in the musical. Choreographers such as Jerome Robbins, Agnes de Mille, Katherine Dunham, and Jack Cole were engaged in the following years on Broadway and acquired through their work there notoriety.

Action

Phil " Junior" Dolan is without guile and arrogance and has no fear of contact. From a fairground family, he has brought it to a professorship of " serious music " at the Knickerbocker University. His passion is dance. The young people like jazz; one of his students, the jazz ballet "Slaughter on Tenth Avenue " composed - Junior is thrilled. Frankie Frayne is one of his students and in love with him. Frankie has relationships, she knows Peggy Porterfield, the patron and manager of a Russian dance company. After Peggy is convinced that the performance of the jazz ballet for joint projects. Sergei Alexandrovich, the director of the ballet company, can with jazz and modern dance, of course, ever do anything, but Peggy is the funder. Prima ballerina Vera Baranova like something, she enjoys playing double game. She uses junior to their love and dance partner Konstantin Morrosine to make her jealous. Alexandrovich she wipes also made one, she invites a junior in the current piece " La Princesse Zenobia " to dance. Fortunately, then keep the public and press the demonstration of a successful parody. Junior can not believe his luck, now he loves two women: Frankie and Vera. But it gets even better; as Alexandrovich Junior sees dancing jazz ballet, he hired him as a dance partner for Vera. This brings in Constantine Morrosine the last straw for overflow - he hires killers, the junior should have shot on opening night ...

Well-known musical numbers

  • There 's a Small Hotel
  • Glad to Be Unhappy
  • Slaughter on Tenth Avenue ( Ballet)

Films

  • A non -scale as a musical film adaptation of Ray Enright is from the year 1939.
  • Gene Kelly choreographed and danced ( with Vera -Ellen ), the jazz ballet Slaughter on Tenth Avenue in the film Words and Music ( 1949) by Norman Taurog.
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