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