Jerry Mitchell
Director of Legally Blonde.
Tony Award-winning choreographer Jerry Mitchell talks about taking on the dual roles of director and choreographer for the first time with Legally Blonde and charts the development of the musical from the selection of the writing team to its San Francisco tryout to its Broadway debut. He also shares his experience of becoming a professional dancer while still in college, when he was chosen by the legendary Agnes DeMille for the 1980 revival of Brigadoon, his work with two other legends — Michael Bennett on Scandal and Jerome Robbins on Jerome Robbins’ Broadway; how he develops a dance vocabulary for each of his shows according to the needs of the material, with sources as diverse as 60s dances (for Hairspray) and basketball (for The Full Monty); and how dancing nearly naked on a drum for Tommy Tune in The Will Rogers Follies led to Broadway Bares, which has raised millions of dollars for Broadway Cares.
Original airdate – May 11, 2007.
Running time – 58:09.
For more information, to listen online, or to download the episode go to Downstage Center’s Jerry Mitchell program page.
You can also download directly the Jerry Mitchell program (mp3).
Posted on Monday, May 14th, 2007 at 10:40 am
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American Theatre Wing
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