![]() ![]() Or you can even have a vision-of a girl in a yellow dress or something.” New York, New York arrived in a less predictable way, as Stroman, 68, and her longtime friends and collaborators, composer John Kander and writer David Thompson, were trying to come up with another project to do together. “When you have an idea for a new musical,” she says, “it usually comes from someone handing you a novel or a screenplay. “We make New York City definitely a character in the show,” says Stroman. ![]() In this show, she gets the leads and other citizens of the city that doesn’t sleep dancing in its streets, nightclubs and ballrooms in Penn Station, Grand Central Terminal, Central Park and on an I-beam at a construction site. Like Jerome Robbins and Bob Fosse before her, she’s a director-choreographer who should really be called a choreographer-director. James Theatre, the dancing will be front and center. With Susan Stroman in charge of the new stage musical New York, New York, opening April 26 at the St. The dances by Ron Field, the Tony-winning choreographer of Kander and Ebb’s Cabaret, are all but forgotten. Those old enough to remember it at all recall the testy romance between the characters played by Robert De Niro and Liza Minnelli, the blatantly phony New York sets, and, of course, the title tune by John Kander and Fred Ebb, which over the years has become the city’s unofficial anthem. Martin Scorsese’s 1977 movie musical, New York, New York, was an event, but not really a hit.
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