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| | The great dance way - history of Broadway musicals - Column Dance Magazine - Find Articles |
 | | Dance has always given its regards--and its talents--to Broadway, playing a key, if varying, role in the past, present, and so far as one can tell, future of that somewhat amorphous theatrical form, the Broadway musical. |
 | | After The Black Crook and such questionably suspicious dance interludes on Broadway and its environs as Billy Watson's line of Rubenesque British beauties brought here in the 1870s (and known, perhaps a little unkindly, as "the Beef Trust"), showbiz and Broadway have enjoyed various and varying relationships with Terpsichore, her handmaidens, and her hand-boys. |
 | | In the early years the dances on Broadway were provided by "dance strangers," and the first person--so far as I know--to use that brave new word choreograph in connection with a Broadway show was George Balanchine. |
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