savion: what was difficult? i don't know.ost challenging thing about creating a musical is making sure that the buoyancy maintains no matter what. that is the hardest thing of the world. even you have something like west side story of sweeney todd there still has to be the energy in the buoyancy to push it through. all the way until the curtain. act two, maintaining the buoyancy as we explored the relationships in the storytelling. as we get closer and closer to tiem of maintaining. there is a story that eubie blake tells the george gershwin lifted the notes for "i got rhythm" from a pit player from "shuffle along." he lifted those notes, and he stole them. i am not saying that he did. i'm saying that someone said that. it became a very interesting thing. it becomes a tap dance that savion choreographed. him playing the instrument, and incing out the fact that theory that someone lifted his notes. "shuffle along" was filled with joyous rage. this number becomes a manifestation of that. charlie rose: this is from chris jones,

where are you, savion, come to me!t seemed like the perfect thing for us to work together on because there were so many innovations "shuffle along" had in 1921. it was the first jazz score, the first time a women's cho russ danced as opposed to being ornamental and decorative, and the music and the dance felt very, very innovative, except for a lot of innovations of 1921 don't apply in 2016, so i wanted to figure out a way to make it feel fresh and vibrant and innovative for new eyes and, so, that seemed to be -- >> rose: do most people know about "shuffle along"? >> no one knows anything about it. >> rose: i feel so stupid. no, it opened up on broadway in 1921 in may. it ended up making $9 million which is a ridiculous amount. >> rose: 1921? 191921. it brought cinco pays, changed jazz florence mills was the first international american star that grew forth from it. it changed the face of broadway, and i just, over time, kept on doing this research and saw a pictorial history of broadway that went from the 1890s till 1

savion is a very exceptional teacher.people who are very good at what they do are difficult to be around because they are intolerant of people that are not performing at their level. that is one of the things that i think is remarkable about savion. there are people in this show doing brilliant work safely because of the grace of how he teaches. one of the things i only said and his work as a choreographer is that he was soght by older tap dancers you're talking about something set in 1921 there is a living repository of rhythm there. he likes that. given my $20 for saying that. it is not stale or artificial or fake. it has the combustible energy of something new that it had what it had what was first done. charlie rose: did you stereotypes about black performers? george: it killed the stereotypes while perpetuating them at the same time. lyle became blackface performers after they saw the show. else in the company is they are in their natural skin and performing. it became fascinating. one of the things that is also inte

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