On your toes

Junior Donal is a former vaudeville actor who now teaches music at Knickerbocker University in New York. To help patron Peggy Portefield, he undertakes to persuade Sergei Alexandrovich, director of the Russian Ballet, to stage the jazzy ballet "Slaughter on Tenth Avenue". Junior becomes romantically involved with the company's principal dancer, Vera Barnova. He is forced to play the title role of "Slaughter". It infuriates Vera's lover, who is her usual dance partner, that he hires two thugs to kill Junior while he is performing on stage.

Discover the ballet "Slaughter on Dance Avenue" performed by Vera Zorina and choreographed by George Balanchine:

General information

Style : Dance, Romance
Theme : Adultery, Showbiz
year of creation : 1936

Music

Composer :Richard Rodgers
Lyricist : Lorenz Hart
Librettist : Richard Rodgers George Abbott & Lorenz Hart
famous songs : "Two a Day for Keith" "Questions and Answers (The Three Bs)" "It's Got to Be Love" "Too Good for the Average Man" "There's a Small Hotel" "The Heart is Quicker than the Eye" "Quiet Night" "Glad to Be Unhappy" "On Your Toes" "Slaughter on 10th Avenue"
Famous performers : Eddie Albert, Vera Zorina, Gloria Dickson, Queenie Smith, Natalia Makarova, Valentina Kozlova, Ray Bolger, Tamara Geva, Monty Woolley, Bobby Van, Elaine Stritch, George de la Peña, George S. Irving, Dina Merrill, Philip Arthur Ross , Betty Ann Grove, Lara Teeter.

kinships

Exists in film : A film was directed by Ray Enright in 1939 with ballerina Vera Zorina, Eddie Albert, Alan Hale, Frank McHugh, Gloria Dickson and Queenie Smith. The film contains the music from the musical in its soundtrack but no song is sung. The film contains the final ballet sequence "Slaughter on 10th Avenue".