2019-2020 Broadway/Musical/Operetta Rhythm Dance Suggestions

[screech]

I agree with Sweeney Todd for G/P.

I like Xanadu for G/P and H/D.
Xanadu Soundtrack or Broadway Musical

Title track - https://youtu.be/cLi8fTlDEag

I can absolutely see Gilles/Poirier rocking the Xanadu theme!!!

 

[screech]

Just out of curiosity, where's the actual official announcement of the 19/20 rhythm? I haven't found it through a google search...

 

[thvu]

Just out of curiosity, where's the actual official announcement of the 19/20 rhythm? I haven't found it through a google search...

From the ISU Technical Committee Meeting at Worlds.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E7tYDftWFGg

 

[Dobre]

Crossposting my brainstorm list from The Dance Hall:

The key, for me, with musicals is don't overdo it. People want to try to tell the whole story in 2 minutes. Not possible. Pick a great scene. Or maybe a subplot with a couple minor characters. One or two songs. NOT four or five. You can't do everything.

Brainstorms:
Be Italian--Guignard & Fabbri
Sweeney Todd--McNamara & Carpenter
I'm a Woman from Smokey Joe's Cafe--Hubbell & Donohue
One Singular Sensation from A Chorus Line--The Parsons
Nothing Like a Dame from South Pacific--Chock & Bates
Something There from Beauty and the Beast--Stepanova & Bukin
Shall We Dance from The King and I--Wang & Liu (I don't really care who does this, but I must have a Shall We Dance, and the guy has to have at least some personality. Liu could do it, and she could sell Anna).
Show Me from My Fair Lady--Muramoto & Reed
All 'Er Nothing from Oklahoma--Hawayek & Baker

I wasn't going to suggest My Fair Lady because it's been done exceptionally well, but the
Eliza & Freddy relationship in Show Me is different and would totally work for Chris & Kana.

Added Note 1: As I said above, I would love a Shall We Dance from The King and I, especially from a team in which the guy has enough personality to really play the king.

Added Note 2: I do not, however, need to see another Fred & Ginger ice dance program ever again in my life. Not ever. (For any teams considering this, I would just like to recommend you go back and watch the umpteen versions we were forced to sit through during the toe-tapping mid-nineties rule era. Whatever you are thinking of doing, it has been done).

 

[Dobre]

Bumping this thread up to the top for anyone who wants to add to it at this stage in the season.

 

[Wyliefan]

Oh good, we do have a thread! I'd forgotten. Thanks for bumping it, @Dobre.

 

[sharsk8s]

We need to start a betting pool to see if P/C actually do something different or they just find something that fits the broadway/opretta theme thats their style.

 

[Aerobicidal]

I will eternally root for any team that does a program to Hedwig and the Angry Inch.

I will eternally root against any team that does a program to Rent, Wicked, or [omitted list of 235 additional musicals I detest but not quite as much].

 

[skategal]

I'll add my suggestion from the dance thread here.

Chock/Bates need to skate to RENT using the songs for Mimi & Roger's love story.

It would be so awesome!

If any team skates to anything from RENT, I will uber them forever.

 

[mjb52]

Ok I am going to go way out of the box here... not as a serious suggestion (necessarily) so much as a question. Would songs from something like the Buffy the Vampire Slayer musical episode count?

Ah I see it has to have one of the designated rhythms - that would make it a bit hard. But won't that rule out a lot of the other suggestions here as well?

 

[skategal]

This is a Charleston to the song "The Lonely Goatherd" from the Sound of Music.

It should work for a quickstep also.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=55z6IrL8k0Q

Dear Skategods, please let someone skate to this!!!

 

[MsZem]

Ok I am going to go way out of the box here... not as a serious suggestion (necessarily) so much as a question. Would songs from something like the Buffy the Vampire Slayer musical episode count?

OMG, if someone used Bunnies or They Got The Mustard Out

More seriously, the only song I could see working is I'll Never Tell, and maybe Dawn's Ballet but it's far too short. I couldn't possibly say if it works with any of the rhythms.

 

[VGThuy]

This is a Charleston to the song "The Lonely Goatherd" from the Sound of Music.

It should work for a quickstep also.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=55z6IrL8k0Q

Dear Skategods, please let someone skate to this!!!

The Duchesnays did that for their polka in 1992 with middling results:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ar8AclSXsLA

In fact their FD was also to a Broadway score: West Side Story.

When people say they want to see Papadakis/Cizeron "venture out" I have this fear in my head that the results would be like the Duchesnays 1992 routines and I just say keep doing what you're doing Gui and Gabbi.

 

[mjb52]

I was just thinking about the Duchesneys in 1992 the other day (and to a lesser extent K & O in 98/99). There is nothing as a skating fan quite like the helpless feeling when your favorites have programs that don't suit them in a pivotal year!

 

[skategal]

The Duchesnays did that for their polka in 1992 with middling results:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ar8AclSXsLA

In fact their FD was also to a Broadway score: West Side Story.

When people say they want to see Papadakis/Cizeron "venture out" I have this fear in my head that the results would be like the Duchesnays 1992 routines and I just say keep doing what you're doing Gui and Gabbi.

Yes you definitely need the right team to be able to pull it off successfully.

The Duschesnays weren't that team...

I could see G/P being quirky/campy enough to do a good job of it though.

I'm hoping for a Blues for P/C.

 

[deegee]

i'm just catching up here while sitting at work, so i've just barely skimmed all of the comments; my apologies if this question has already been answered: is there a required dance pattern(s) for the broadway themed rd's next year?

 

[chantilly]

Once has a beautiful ballad, Falling slowly

 

[chantilly]

Sweeney Todd would suit G and P
Maybe H and D.

There’s so so many.

 

[VGThuy]

I don't think you guys know how much I've been resisting just spamming this thread with some of my favorite Broadway clips. I'm a huge musical theatre fan.

 

[mjb52]

I don't think you guys know how much I've been resisting just spamming this thread with some of my favorite Broadway clips. I'm a huge musical theatre fan.

Do it!

 

[chantilly]

Please do.
I’m down for it.
Anyone not interested can leave the thread.

 

[Wyliefan]

Do it!

 

[chantilly]

Yes you definitely need the right team to be able to pull it off successfully.

The Duschesnays weren't that team...

I could see G/P being quirky/campy enough to do a good job of it though.

I'm hoping for a Blues for P/C.

Blues wouldn’t really be that different a choice musically for P and C. It would still be languid and smooth.
Unless they pick something with a rock/blues vibe.

 

[skategal]

Blues wouldn’t really be that different a choice musically for P and C. It would still be languid and smooth.
Unless they pick something with a rock/blues vibe.

Yeah not so different but I think that's why I want to see them do it.

I know they would be so good at Blues.

 

[VGThuy]

Do it!

Please do.
I’m down for it.
Anyone not interested can leave the thread.

Do it!

I'm going to try to keep it to songs I think can work with the following rhythms: Quickstep, Blues, March, Polka or Foxtrot so no sweeping ballads or anything.

Just to start:

I wonder if Gershwin tunes to My One and Only could work. Check out the Tommy Tune choreography:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nkr0bWRIvy8

I always thought this "beach" dance set to "S'Wonderful" was cute and it features a dance with Tune and Twiggy that I can see ice dancers doing:

https://youtu.be/7KPHUCta7qU?t=31

The lyrics to "Turkey Lurkey Time" from the Burt Bacharach musical Promises, Promises are silly but this dance is incredible, especially by lead dancer Donna McKechnie:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qkBZ0-r_M-8

There's no video clip of this song, but when I saw "Dancing" from Hello Dolly! a year or two ago, I thought it was just a brilliantly choreographed number. However, I think this is a waltz and therefore not one of the prescribed rhythms.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NKoB4U1-Zpo

Also, the overused Andrew Lloyd Webber version of Theme of Paganini used most famously by Usova/Zhulin in 1991 and Torvill/Dean's Rock n' Roll 1983 OSP is technically from a Broadway show, Song & Dance.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=94PMD_1zmNU = U/Z

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fEHsR679g1M = T/D

Speaking of the Blues, "Summertime" is from Porgy and Bess which would also count as it was first produced on Broadway.

Jerome Kern and a lot of the Rodgers/Hart stuff would be great for a blues rhythm.

 

[Wyliefan]

Wait, they're not allowed to do waltzes? That would be unfortunate. So many good show tunes are waltzes.

 

[NinjaTurtles]

ISU hasn’t communicated the required pattern dance steps, right? Or, is it a pattern of their own design as long as it’s March, Polka, Quickstep, Foxtrot, or Blues? The latter basically being the OD?

Praying for Yankee Polka!

 

[VGThuy]

ISU hasn’t communicated the required pattern dance steps, right? Or, is it a pattern of their own design as long as it’s March, Polka, Quickstep, Foxtrot, or Blues? The latter basically being the OD?

Praying for Yankee Polka!

I believe the pattern is of their own design so long as it's a march, polka, quickstep, foxtrot, or blues. I think they're hoping to choose a new pattern from a team(s) as a set pattern for the future.

 

[VGThuy]

Wait, they're not allowed to do waltzes? That would be unfortunate. So many good show tunes are waltzes.

I know! Carousel Waltz, Embassy Waltz from My Fair Lady, the score from A Little Night Music, Beautiful Candy from Carnival, Waltz for a Ball from Cinderella, etc.

But "Shall We Dance" from The King and I is a polka and would definitely work!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ElqYH2bxKtY

Of course, there's Cole Porter's Anything Goes:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IlCZutwVlzQ

Thoroughly Modern Millie would work as well although I prefer the film version:

https://youtu.be/0wwzXdwM1C0?t=37

 

[NinjaTurtles]

I want Bring On The Men from Jekyll & Hyde, but I don’t know if I think it’s a better foxtrot or polka.