‘A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum’ Review: Girls’ Night Off
Denis Jones, the choreographer, deserves equal credit—he knows how to make truly funny dances, a skill given to few—and he runs so close in tandem with Ms. Stone that I wouldn’t dare to guess who did what.
Review: ‘The Tempest’ Stars Sam Waterston and the Weather at Delacorte Theater
This attire — variations on which are worn by the large and nimble corps de ballet (wittily choreographed by Denis Jones)
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.”
Theater Review: At Encores!, Paint Your Wagon Is Way Better Than It Oughta Be
And Denis Jones’ choreography, including a terrific can-can led by Jenny Laroche, who’s a Rockette, is unusually strong throughout.
Review: ‘Paint Your Wagon,’ Starring Keith Carradine, Opens at Encores!
Agnes de Mille, who choreographed the original production, certainly knew how to make macho men move, and Denis Jones does a creditable job of designing dances along the de Mille lines. When that stagecoach arrives and the women spill out, there’s an even more jubilant jamboree as they have no trouble finding willing partners.
'Honeymoon in Vegas': Theater Review
Choreographer Denis Jones splashy first-act closing number, "Do Something," has the enjoyably kitschy feel of something whipped up by the Love Boat crew.
Piece of My Heart: The Bert Berns Story
Director Denis Jones has crafted it all into a sleek package, with the kind of musically satisfying staging in which the bump of the last song immediately leads into the following scene. This helps the show pack in more music than you would think possible, and it does so in an authentic-sounding way.
Bert Berns, The Rock Phenom You Never Heard Of, Finally Gets His Due
I loved the fact that Jones’s period dances are performed by the small company slightly self-consciously, as though they were kids at a Miami Beach discotheque
THEATRE REVIEWS: The Sound of Music
and Denis Jones’ Choreography add to the perfection that this production presents to the audience.
This is 'Sound of Music' on a grand scale, with a lovely Maria
Choreographer Denis Jones' rendition of "Sixteen Going on Seventeen" is far more nervously dramatic than most, leaving you with an atypically acute sense of how wartime adolescents dealt with a ground that shifted along with their bodies.
From Ring-a-Ding Swagger to Swooning Romanticism
But another, sweatier tutelary god of Las Vegas is on hand, too: Elvis, who shows up in the form of a deus-ex-machina chorus of parachuting Presley impersonators whom the choreographer Denis Jones knows just how to use.
‘Damn Yankees’: 5th Avenue Theatre might have a hit
The upbeat ensemble numbers (“The Game,” and with the limber second banana Nancy Anderson, “Shoeless Joe from Hannibal Mo.”) are great fun, with a chorus of baseballers sweetly harmonizing and executing the frisky, acrobatic choreography of Denis Jones
The High Price of a Baseball Winning Streak
The choreography, by Denis Jones, is lively, confident and so varied that it takes a long time to remember that Bob Fosse, the master of slink, bump and grind, did the original