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''Slaughter on Tenth Avenue'' is a ballet with music by Richard Rodgers and choreography by George Balanchine. It occurs near the end of Rodgers and Hart's 1936 Broadway musical comedy ''On Your Toes''. ''Slaughter'' is the story of a hoofer who falls in love with a dance hall girl who is then shot and killed by her jealous boyfriend. The hoofer then shoots the boyfriend. The ballet is integrated into the plot of the musical by the device of having two gangsters watching it from box seats in the theatre in which it is staged. They have orders to shoot the leading dancer (played by Ray Bolger in the original production). The dancer, who has been warned just in time, evades them by suddenly dancing at full speed even after the ballet actually ends, and finally two police officers enter and arrest the gangsters. ''Slaughter on Tenth Avenue'' was danced by Ray Bolger and Tamara Geva in the original stage production of ''On Your Toes'', and by Eddie Albert and Vera Zorina in the film version. In ''Words and Music'', the 1948 Technicolor film biography of Rodgers and Hart, the ballet was danced by Gene Kelly and Vera-Ellen, with a somewhat revised, more tragic storyline, and new choreography by Kelly (in Kelly's version, the boyfriend, in addition to killing the dance hall girl, also kills the hoofer). The first television performance of "Slaughter" was on NBC-TV's ''Garroway at Large'' program in 1950 or 1951, with the NBC Chicago studio orchestra under the direction of Joseph Gallichio.〔(Best of 'Garroway at Large' - 'Slaughter on Tenth Avenue' )〕 ''Slaughter on Tenth Avenue'' entered the repertoire of the New York City Ballet in 1968, first danced by Suzanne Farrell and Arthur Mitchell.〔(NYCB Repertory Index )〕 ==Adaptations== 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Slaughter on Tenth Avenue」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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