First Nighter: “Paint Your Wagon” Revival Paints Town Red-Hot
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First Nighter: “Paint Your Wagon” Revival Paints Town Red-Hot

Though I know de Mille choreographed the 1951 version, I hardly remember it dance for dance, step for step. So I can’t comment on whether Denis Jones keeps track of whatever is recorded or recalled of her work. I can say he’s done well with several numbers in which the men show their prowess and the dance hall girls, arriving in act two, throw a mean can-can. Indeed, when the men join the women for the can-can, Jones turns that into something suddenly and surprisingly rousing. He also does nicely by a pas de deux Kevin Munhall and Darien Crago execute during a musical break in the plaintive “Another Autumn.”

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