New Sole Sisters Goldberg, Jane performer Safford, Sarah performer Wasserman, Dorothy Anderson performer Coles, Marion performer Browne, Harriet performer Theatrical Performance 1986-10-16 La Mama E.T.C. October 16, 1986-November 2, 1986. From the Grande Dames of tap dance to the prima taperinas of today. Conceived by Jane Goldberg, script by Murray Horwitz and Susan Woolhandler. Jane Goldberg, Harriet Browne, Brenda Bufalino, Josephine McNamara, Francis Nealy, Miriam Greaves-Ali, Sarah Safford, Dorothy Wasserman. Koren Korsmeyer (bass), Joyce Brown (vocals and piano). A tightly structured romp through tap. The thread on which the revue hangs is Ms. Goldberg's search for a tap partner, an odyssey on which she is accompanied by Harriet Browne, an enchantingly sweet-tempered and pragmatic "fairy godmother." But the scenario is just a pretext for the dancing, which is not only great fun and virtuosic but unusual in that here women are performing a traditionally male art form. Each of the six tappers gets at least one solo, and among them there are some standout star turns. (Jennifer Dunning, "Tap Revue, ‘New Sole Sisters" New York Times October 23, 1986; Sally Sommer, "A Big Hand for the Little Ladies" Village Voice November 11, 1986, 84.) Performing Arts Encyclopedia http://www.loc.gov/performingarts Tap Dance America http://lcweb2.loc.gov/diglib/ihas/html/tda/tda-home.html Harriet "Quicksand" Browne (biography) loc.music.tdabio.29 Marion Coles (biography) loc.music.tdabio.54 Sarah Safford (biography) loc.music.tdabio.166 Jane Goldberg (biography) loc.music.tdabio.99 tda IHAS 151216 loc.music.tda.873