{"product_id":"on-your-toes-studio-cast-rec-2","title":"ON YOUR TOES - STUDIO CAST REC","description":"There are many reasons to recall  \u003ci\u003eOn Your Toes\u003c\/i\u003e with warm affection, paramount among them being the fine, rollickingly satirical score of Richard Rodgers and the incisive, enormously adroit and witty lyrics of Lorenz Hart. There is also the colorful and popular dance score titled  \u003ci\u003eSlaughter on Tenth Avenue\u003c\/i\u003e. At this album's original release in 1953, it was a most welcome addition to Columbia’s roster of previously unrecorded Broadway shows.\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e Introduced to Broadway in April 1936,  \u003ci\u003eOn Your Toes\u003c\/i\u003e was the first of the book-show musicals to take ballet seriously. Its plot about the backstage life of a ballet troupe incorporated two large-scale ballets created for the show by George Balanchine, one of which – the amazing  \u003ci\u003eSlaughter on Tenth Avenue\u003c\/i\u003e – received its first full-length recording here.\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e The story of  \u003ci\u003eOn Your Toes\u003c\/i\u003e deals with a young hoofer, the son of vaudevillians, whose mother persuades him to leave the \"two-a-day\" and take up serious ballet. The young man’s early efforts at the art are laughable. Then, a friend of the hoofer’s presents the troupe with a new work that tells a contemporary story through the medium of ballet, and in this the young man, the leading ballerina and the troupe score a decided triumph. The plot of this successful ballet,  \u003ci\u003eSlaughter on Tenth Avenue\u003c\/i\u003e, is a satire on gangster stories.\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e Cast:\u003cbr\u003e  Frankie Frayne - Portia Nelson\u003cbr\u003e  Phil Dolan III - Jack Cassidy\u003cbr\u003e  Phil Dolan II - Robert Eckles\u003cbr\u003e  Lil Dolan - Zamah Cunningham\u003cbr\u003e  Peggy Porterfield - Laurel Shelby\u003cbr\u003e  Sergei Alexandrovitch - Ray Hyson\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Sony Masterworks","offers":[{"title":"CD","offer_id":49709580812568,"sku":"886978880420","price":17.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0687\/4346\/3192\/files\/3822314.jpg?v=1778808554","url":"https:\/\/hbdirect.com\/products\/on-your-toes-studio-cast-rec-2","provider":"HBDirect","version":"1.0","type":"link"}