Every once in a while I prowl around You Tube and discover buried treasure. As luck would have it, I’ve been hooked on Neil Diamond songs that weren’t included in the great movie, Song Sung Blue. Now Hugh Jackman is a great dancer, but he didn’t do any in the movie as that would have been out of character, so I struck gold with Crunchy Granola Suite. If you never saw Dancin’ either in the original tour in 1978/79 or the similar Fosse from 1999, they are a series of dances choreographed by Bob Fosse to a variety of compositions. Each one is remarkable for the talent and energy required of the dancers and contains some of Mr. Fosse’s best choreography.
I first saw Dancin’ almost 50 years ago in Los Angeles, and remember that evening vividly, so kick back, turn up your speakers and look at all the beautiful people doing phenomenal work. Here are a few other numbers from both Dancin’ and Fosse.
Sing Sing Sing
Bye Bye Blackbird
I Wanna Be Dancing Man
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