How Broadway Keeps Trying To Get The Disco Beat

ELISABETH VINCENTELLI, NY Times: Music
Fri, 05/18/2018 - 7:35am

A brief history in five musicals — and a rating system of disco-dancing emojis.

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Topics:  disco   
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