On Your Toes
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On Your Toes (1936), a musical comedy by George
Abbott (book), Richard
Rodgers (book, music), Lorenz
Hart (book, lyrics). [
Imperial Theatre, 315 perf.] Junior Dolan ( Ray
Bolger), the son of old vaudevillians, becomes a music professor and helps a struggling Russian ballet company. But complications force him to go on in place of the lead dancer and perform opposite the Russian prima ballerina Vera Barnova ( Tamara
Geva). Gangsters try to shoot him during the ballet, but they are apprehended in time for a happy ending, which includes his proposal of marriage to sweet songwriter Frankie Frayne ( Doris Carson).
Notable songs: There's a Small Hotel; On Your Toes; It's Got to Be Love; Too Good for the Average Man; Glad to Be Unhappy; Quiet Night. The production was an innovative musical, in no small measure because of the fine George
Ballanchine ballets, including the legendary “Slaughter on Tenth Avenue,” which was the first to have a story and a connection with the plot of the show. The Dwight Deere
Wiman production starred Bolger in one of his finest performances and featured Monty
Woolley and Luella
Gear in secondary roles. A major revival in 1954 featured Vera Zorina and Bobby Van, while a more successful 1983 revival starred Natalia Makarova and Lara Teeter, both productions directed by Abbott who staged the original.
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