Volume 43, Number 10 · June 6, 1996
On Tap
By Joan Acocella
Bring In 'da Noise, Bring In 'da Funk
choreography by Savion Glover. conceived and directed by George C. Wolfe. at the Ambassador Theatre, New York City
For years you couldn't go to a tap-dance revue in New York without seeing a skinny little boy named Savion Glover brought on at the end to do improvisation. Maybe Glover didn't have time to work up a regular number, for he was a busy child, a star on Broadway from the age of twelve (The Tap Dance Kid, Black and Blue, Jelly's Last Jam). He also danced in movies and on TV, and presumably he had some homework to do in between. But often it seemed that the reason he couldn't be programed alongside the other acts was that he so outshone them.
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