The Champ......Kevin O'Day
The Champ's Biggest Fan......Anne Adair
Mrs. Harriman's Daughter......Susan Jaffe
Mrs. Harriman......Georgina Parkinson
The Busy Bodies......Shelley Washington and Kathleen Moore
The Trainer......Richard Colton
The Corner Boy......Daniel Sanchez
Claudia Alfieri, Gabrielle Brown, Sandra Brown, Laura Hood, Marie-France Levesque, Dana Stackpole, Ashley Tuttle, Greet Vinicker
Ethan Brown, Daniel Chait, Robert Conn, Keith Roberts, Scott Schlexer, John Selya, John Summers, Robert Wallace
Everlast: A Gypsy Run-Through
Scenario: James Jones
Conductor: Jack Everly
Pianist: Michael Dansicker
Singers: Judy Blazer, Jason Graae, Molly Wasserman
Dedicated to Jennifer Tipton and Santo Loqausto
Everlast tells the story of a champion boxer and the two women that struggle for his affections: the housemaid of a rich widow and the rich widow's daughter. Tharp brought in boxing trainer Teddy Atlas to work with the dancers and lend authenticity to the boxers' movements.
Much of the action takes place backstage at the Palace Theater in 1919 at a time when it was the preeminent vaudeville venue in America. A pianist and three singers perform onstage with the dancers while a large overhead screen flashes surtitles in old-timey script.
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Adair and O'Day in performance.
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American Ballet Theatre dancers perform.
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Washington and Moore in performance.
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Members of American Ballet Theatre in studio and dress rehearsal.
All songs composed by Jerome Kern
Orchestrated by William Brohn
You're Here And I'm Here
From the musical The Laughing Husband - 1914
Written by Harry B. Smith
Katy Did
Written by Harry B. Smith
How'd You Like To Spoon With Me
From the musical The Earl and the Girl - 1905
Written by Edward Laska
You Never Knew About Me
From the musical Oh Boy! - 1917
Written by P.G. Wodehouse
Till The Clouds Roll By
Written by P.G. Wodehouse
From the musical Oh Boy! - 1917
Bullfrog Patrol
Written by Anne Caldwell - 1919
From the musical Very Warm For May -1939
Written by Oscar Hammerstein, II
From the film High, Wide and Handsome - 1937
From the musical Music in the Air- 1932
Written by Otto Harbach