Gower Champion

On stage 3 productions, 3 years

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Worked with more than once5 names

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Also credited on14 works

3 for Tonight
42nd Street
A Broadway Musical
Bye Bye Birdie
Carnival!
Hello, Dolly!
High Spirits
I Do! I Do!
Lend An Ear
Mack & Mabel
Make A Wish
Rockabye Hamlet
Sugar
The Happy Time

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In the literature8 passages

• Film cast (1951) : Kathryn Grayson, Howard Keel, William Warfield, Marge and Gower Champion, Ava Gardner, Adolph Deutsch (conductor). MGM E 3230.ebooks/Block, Geoffrey/Enchanted Evenings_The Broadway Musical from 'Show Boat' to Sondheim and Lloyd Webber - Geoffrey Block.txt
• FILM (MGM 1951) : Cast: Kathryn Grayson, Ava Gardner, Howard Keel, Joe E. Brown, Marge and Gower Champion, Robert Sterling, Agnes Moorehead, Leif Erickson, William Warfield. Screenplay by John Lee Mahin. Produced by Arthur Freed. Directed by George Sidney. Songs: “Cotton Blossom,” “Where’s the Mate for Me?,” “Make Believe,” “Can’t Help Lo…ebooks/Block, Geoffrey/Enchanted Evenings_The Broadway Musical from 'Show Boat' to Sondheim and Lloyd Webber - Geoffrey Block.txt
• Clearly, the highlight of the revue was the lavish dance sequence “The Desert Flame,” which, along with Gower Champion’s “The Sale” (from Make a Wish ), is one of the era’s forgotten choreographic treasures. Hawkins reported the dance was a satire on ballet, opera, movies, “and overacting,” and centered on Desert Flame (Valerie Bettis), w…ebooks/Dietz, Dan/Complete Book of 1950s Broadway Musicals, The - Dan Dietz.txt
• Direction : John C. Wilson; Producers : Harry Rigby and Jule Styne with Alexander H. Cohen; Choreography : Gower Champion; Scenery and Costumes : Raoul Pene du Bois; Lighting : Uncredited; Musical Direction : Milton Rosenstockebooks/Dietz, Dan/Complete Book of 1950s Broadway Musicals, The - Dan Dietz.txt
• The critics were generally kind to the show, but with the notable exception of Gower Champion’s choreography they were indifferent to the plot and score. Otis L. Guernsey in the New York Herald Tribune noted the turns of the plot seemed “to be about anything that occurred to mind during the extended out-of-town tour,” and he said the song…ebooks/Dietz, Dan/Complete Book of 1950s Broadway Musicals, The - Dan Dietz.txt
• But on one point the critics were in rapturous agreement: Gower Champion’s brilliant choreography was the highlight of the evening. The second-act dance “The Sale” depicted the mad-cap goings-on at a department store, with harried clerks, bargain-minded obsessed customers, and even a pickpocket or two. By the time the shoppers are through…ebooks/Dietz, Dan/Complete Book of 1950s Broadway Musicals, The - Dan Dietz.txt

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