Question
Fred Astaire’s character sings of being in this state, as his tap dancing wakes up Ginger Rogers’s character on the floor below, in the song “No Strings” from the film Top Hat. For 10 points each:
[10h] The Gene Kelly musical On the Town adapts a ballet titled for what state of being, in which three sailors on shore for a day compete for the attention of two women?
ANSWER: “fancy free”
[10m] Both On the Town and Fancy Free were choreographed by this artist. Male dancers coolly snap their fingers while rushing forward in this artist’s choreography for another production.
ANSWER: Jerome Robbins [or Jerome Wilson Rabinowitz] (The latter musical is West Side Story.)
[10e] The sailors arrive in the city in a jubilant opening song of this title from On the Town. Frank Sinatra popularized the theme to a movie musical with this repetitive title, which opens “start spreading the news / I’m leaving today.”
ANSWER: “New York, New York” [accept “Theme from New York, New York”]
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Summary
| 2024 ESPN @ Chicago | 03/23/2024 | Y | 5 | 14.00 | 80% | 40% | 20% |
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