Everything Is Choreography: The Musical Theater of Tommy Tune by Winkler, Kevin

Everything Is Choreography: The Musical Theater of Tommy Tune

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Everything Is Choreography: The Musical Theater of Tommy Tune by Winkler, Kevin

Everything Is Choreography: The Musical Theater of Tommy Tune

$125.53

Everything Is Choreography: The Musical Theater of Tommy Tune

$125.53
Author: Kevin Winkler
Format: Hardcover
Language: English
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.


Author: Kevin Winkler
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Published: 11/15/2021
Pages: 296
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 1.26lbs
Size: 9.42h x 6.43w x 1.05d
ISBN: 9780190090739

About the Author

Kevin Winkler, Freelance Writer

Kevin Winkler enjoyed a career of more than twenty years as a curator, archivist, and library administrator at the New York Public Library, prior to which he was a professional dancer. His book, Big Deal: Bob Fosse and Dance in the American Musical (OUP, 2018), won the Theatre Library Association's
George Freedley Memorial Award, Special Jury Prize, was a finalist for the Marfield Prize, and was cited as an ALA/ACRL CHOICE Outstanding Academic Title. He is an on-screen commentator in the acclaimed documentary, Merely Marvelous: The Dancing Genius of Gwen Verdon.

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