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"The author's admiration for his subjects is evident, his descriptions of particular dances are wonderfully vivid, and he makes good use of quotes from interviews and previous books to cogently reveal the methods each choreographer-director employed to achieve dramatic and visual effects. His text is stronger point-to-point than in its infrequent passages of thematic analysis, but it does trace a direct line from de Mille and Robbins through Bob Fosse and Gower Champion to Michael Bennett and Tommy Tune. Indeed, tracing the connections among his talented cast of characters is one of the things Long does best.D. Werner is the author of 'Symbiosis of Plants and Microbes', published 1992 under ISBN 9780826414625 and ISBN 0826414621.
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