Marge Champion

On stage 2 productions, 46 years

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In the literature8 passages

• MARGE CHAMPION , dancer, actress, and choreographer, was married to Gower Champion.ebooks/Frommer, Myrna Katz & Frommer, Harvey/It Happened on Broadway_ An Oral History of the Great White Way - Myrna Katz Frommer & Harvey Frommer.txt
• Finally I ran into Marge Champion. She said, “Gower is casting, and he has to see you.” They had been married only three weeks, and she was the most adorable thing you ever saw. Gower gave me about a minute and a quarter. I started out doing Ethel Waters. Marge said, “Now do Gertrude Lawrence,” because she’d seen Gower look at his watch,…ebooks/Frommer, Myrna Katz & Frommer, Harvey/It Happened on Broadway_ An Oral History of the Great White Way - Myrna Katz Frommer & Harvey Frommer.txt
• MARGE CHAMPION: Gower Champion had grown up as a one-man show in a cabaret, and he didn’t want us to be just another dance team. He wanted us to tell stories through dance and song. We never had any scenery. Most of the time we didn’t even have any costumes. I never changed from the basic evening dress that I wore. Nevertheless we had thi…ebooks/Frommer, Myrna Katz & Frommer, Harvey/It Happened on Broadway_ An Oral History of the Great White Way - Myrna Katz Frommer & Harvey Frommer.txt
• MARGE CHAMPION: I never thought that Gower was a great choreographer, but he was a great concept person. Whatever story value needed to be illuminated, be it text or song, he was able to do it. In his four or five really great hit shows, the scenery danced, the lighting danced.ebooks/Frommer, Myrna Katz & Frommer, Harvey/It Happened on Broadway_ An Oral History of the Great White Way - Myrna Katz Frommer & Harvey Frommer.txt
• MARGE CHAMPION: Until he got the idea for the ramp, Gower wasn’t even interested in doing Hello, Dolly! It was one of those ideas that he’d wake up with in the middle of the night and talk into the machine. The ramp was used to track through the show—where Dolly could talk to her husband, where the people came out when Dolly came back fro…ebooks/Frommer, Myrna Katz & Frommer, Harvey/It Happened on Broadway_ An Oral History of the Great White Way - Myrna Katz Frommer & Harvey Frommer.txt
• MARGE CHAMPION: I first saw 42nd Street just before Gower went into the hospital. I was just bowled over by it. He had an overall vision for making a classic show work in the 1980s.1 think it is absolutely one of the best things Gower did in his entire life.ebooks/Frommer, Myrna Katz & Frommer, Harvey/It Happened on Broadway_ An Oral History of the Great White Way - Myrna Katz Frommer & Harvey Frommer.txt

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