We've got game.Thanks so much for Sylviane Gold's column on the Broadway revival of The Pajama Game (March, "On Broadway"). If you were lucky enough to attend Illinois' National Academy of Dance in the mid-'70s, Buzz Miller would have been your jazz teacher. I had his classes for two summers at NAD NAD: see coenzyme. , and the first year I learned Fosse's choreography for "Steam Heat" from Buzz himself. I know Buzz is somewhere in the heavens smiling now, as he routinely did when his cadre of classically trained, narrowed-hipped dancers attempted to do his ribcage ribcage Noun the bony structure formed by the ribs that encloses the lungs isolations at the beginning of class. Buzz introduced us to so much: Bob Fosse, straight-ahead jazz Straight-ahead jazz is a term used to refer to a widely accepted style of jazz music playing that can be thought of as roughly encompassing the period between bebop and the 1960s styles of Wayne Shorter and Herbie Hancock. , George and Ira Gershwin, and maybe most important of all, an afternoon class of loose-hipped fun to punctuate punc·tu·ate v. punc·tu·at·ed, punc·tu·at·ing, punc·tu·ates v.tr. 1. To provide (a text) with punctuation marks. 2. an otherwise technically demanding day. What a treat that Pajama Game lives on with a new generation. DEB YOUNG KNOXVILLE, TN |
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