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Article: The great dance way.(history of Broadway musicals)(Column)
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- Dance Magazine
- Article date:
- August 1, 1996
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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 all it was 130 years ago next month that The Black Crook opened in New York City at Niblo's Gardens, making history not only as, just conceivably, the first Broadway musical, but also introducing a new and wide public to the glories (more or less) of ballet and toedancing! Still some notable dancers such as Maria Bonfanti and Rita Sangalli appeared in it, and when, years later in 1929, it had a deliberately somewhat campy revival on the other side of ...
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