WJZ Up To The Minute January 1, 2013
I can perform, i can choreograph, i can assist you. And i got a note back saying come on. [ laughs ] jerry was making money hand over fist and balanchine had although he had done good work on broadway had never been terribly successful, the way jerry was being. I mean, jerry was really the king of broadway. Jerry was connected to a different audience and had a popular point of view that he felt would be useful. And remember in those days new York City Ballet was considered very, very elite. It was high tone. Sometimes on a matinee thered be more dancers onstage than in the audience and we were...
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