On Broadway: can Fosse's Sweet Charity still lure audiences without his signature choreography? From: Dance Magazine | Date: April 1, 2005| Author: Gold, Sylviane | COPYRIGHT 2005 Dance Magazine, Inc. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group.Copyright information

Iconic. Iconic. Iconic. No matter whom you ask about Bob Fosse's choreography for tire original production of Sweet Charity, that word will come up--particularly in relation to "Big Spender," the, er, iconic number in which the taxi dancers of the Fan-Dango Ballroom, brazenly draped over a barre, display their, er, charms in hopes of snagging a patron for the evening.

The show, with a book by Neil Simon and a score by Cy Coleman and Dorothy Fields, was based on the class...