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 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