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American Tap Dance Orchestra at the Joyce American Landscape / Brenda Bufalino [concert]

Title

American Tap Dance Orchestra at the Joyce American Landscape [Concert]

Performers

Bufalino, Brenda

Morrison, Margaret

Duffy, Barbara

Waag, Tony

Fujibayashi, Mari

Rosenkrantz, Olivia

Published/Created

1991-10-15

Genre

Concert

Venue

The Joyce Theater

Abstract

Through October 20.
The World Premiere of "American Landscape" and "Buff Loves Basie Blues."
Danced by Brenda Bufalino and the American Tap Dance Orchestra: featured dancers Neil Applebaum, Barbara Duffy, Russell Halley, Margaret Morrison, Robin Tribble, Tony Waag; with Sherry Eyster Mari Fujibayashi Brandt, Mari Fujibayashi, Andrea Goodman, Mark Goodman, Sharon Heller, Herve Le Goff, Scott Rose, Olivia Rosenkrantz.

Guest artists: Charles "Honi" Coles, Yvette Glover, Carman Moore.
Music performed by Jeffrey Carney (bass), Darrell Grant (piano), Olivia Rosenkrantz (vocals), Pat Tortorici (vocals).
Music performed by the Skymusic Ensemble: Charles Burnham (violin), Eli Fountain (percussion), Eric Johnson (keyboards), Dale Kleps (reeds).

Act One:
Strike Up...The A Train/ choreography Brenda Bufalino, music Billy Strayhorn ("Take the A Train"), danced by tap ensemble;
Buff Loves Basie blues/choreography, Brenda Bufalino; music, Duke Ellington, Irving Mills and Manny Kurtz ("In a Sentimental mood"), arr. by Bufalino and Darrell Grant; danced by tap ensemble.
Honi's suite/ choreography and songs, Charles "Honi" Coles; "Let's Dance" danced by Russell Halley and Tony Waag, sung by Brenda Bufalino and Coles; "Get Yourself Another Guy" sung by Coles; "Doggonest Feeling Ever" sung by Bufalino; "Don't Get Caught Short on Love" sung by Coles, Halley, and Waag; "Warm Feet" danced by Bufalino and Barbara Duffy.
It's Miles to Mingus/ choreography, Brenda Bufalino; music, Miles Davis and Oscar Brown Jr. ("All Blues"), Charles Mingus ("Pork Pie Hat" "Haitian Fight Song"), arr. by Bufalino; danced by Bufalino (solo) with Neil Applebaum, Barbara Duffy, Andrea Goodman, Russell Halley, herve Le Goff, Margaret Morrison, Robin Tribble and Tony Waag; "All Blues" sung by Pat Tortorici, Halley and Waag; "Haitian Fight Song" sung by Olivia Rosenkrantz, Tortorici and Waag.

Touch, Turn, Return/ choreography Brenda Bufalino; music Carman Moore; danced by Bufalino (solos) with Neil Applebaum, Barbara Duffy, Andrea Goodman, Russell Halley, Margaret Morrison, Olivia Rosenkrantz, Robin Tribble, and Tony Waag; music performed by the Skymusic Ensemble, conducted by Moore.

Act Two:
American Landscape/choreography Brenda Bufalino (unless otherwise noted); music Hoagy Carmichael (unless otherwise noted), arr. by Bufalino and Darrell Grant; [musical prologue]: "Barbaric" and "Potato Salad Rag" played by Grant ("Potato Salad Rag" composed by Grant); "Buffalo Suite" danced by the tap ensemble; "Stardust"/"Ol' Buttermilk Sky" choreography and performance by Tony Waag, lyrics by Mitchell Parish, sung by Olivia Rozenkrantz, Pat Tortorici and Waag; "Flying Turtles" music by Bufalino and Grant, danced by tap ensemble; "Heart and Soul" choreography and performance by Robin Tribble; "How Little We Know" choreography and performance by Margaret Morrison, lyrics by Johnny Mercer; "Moon Country" choreography and perfomance by Barbara Duffy; "Memphis in June" lyrics by Paul Francis Webster, danced by the trio, sung by Rosenkrantz, Tortorici, and Waag; "Georgia" and "Baltimore Oriole" lyrics by Stuart Gorrell ("Georgia") and Webster ("Baltimore oriole"), sung by Yvette Glover, concertina played by Bufalino; "Coolbird" music by Grant, danced by featured dancers; "Billy Dick" choreography for jump-rope duet by Neil Applebaum and Mark Goodman, lyrics by Webster, danced by Applebaum (solo) and Applebaum and Mark Goodman (duet), sung by Tortorici.

American Landscape, continued. "Ooh What You Said" danced by Russell Halley (solo), Andrea Goodman and Halley (duet), and ensemble: Sherry Eyster Brandt, Mari Fujibayashi, Andrea Goodman, Mark Goodmna, Sharon Heller, Herve Le Goff, Scott Rose and Olivia Rosenkrantz, "New Orleans" choreography and perfomance by Margaret Morrison and Robin Tribble; "Lazy River"/"Winter Moon" music by Carmichael, Peter Lach and Sidney Arodin ("Lazy River"), danced by Bufalino (solo) with tap ensemble, sung by Bufalino; "Sparrow song"/"Riverboat Shuffle" music by Bufalino ("Sparrow Song"), Carmichael, Dick Voynow, Irving Mills and Mitchell Parish ("Riverboat Shuffle"), danced by tap ensemble, sung by Rosenkrantz and Tortorici; "I Walk with Music" lyrics by Johnny Mercer; danced by Honi Coles and ensemble.

Last Updated: 12-16-2015