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Article: THE EFFORTLESS GENIUS OF JEROME ROBBINS
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- The Boston Globe (Boston, MA)
- Article date:
- February 27, 1989
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"JEROME ROBBINS' BROADWAY" -- Retrospective in two acts
of Jerome Robbins' choreography from 10 musicals,
choreographed and directed by Robbins, scenic design by
Robin Wagner, lighting by Jennifer Tipton, costume design
supervised by Joseph G. Aulisi; at the Imperial Theater,
New York.
NEW YORK - The most amazing thing about "Jerome Robbins'
Broadway" is that it unfurls a full and startling epoch of Broadway
dance as though it was nothing at all, a simple matter of music and
grace, discipline and flight. As one Robbins show succeeds another
-- from 1944's "On the Town" to 1964's "Fiddler on the Roof" -- the
dance concepts are laid before us with such ...