At one point the nightclub singer Shug (Jennifer Hudson, making her Broadway debut) steps onstage in a periwinkle suit, but that's the closest the production comes to flamboyance.
She's a wonderful, expressive and award-winning soprano making a rather late-planned New York recital debut, stepping in instead of another scheduled singer, Miah Persson.
Half a mile from the playhouse is the Ritz Theater, where, in 1941, Lucille Ball made her stage debut, stepping onto boards that Ella Fitzgerald, Red Skelton and Frank Sinatra had also crossed.
His debut, First Step 2 Forever was published in 2010, documenting his rise to fame.
Harrison's concerns about typecasting are also partly responsible for his forthcoming West End debut in Step 9 (Of 12), a darkly comic play from the promising young writer Rob Hayes, which opens this week.
For his handicap debut, he steps up a full mile to three miles, which, on breeding, is what he will need.
eBuddy, the swiss army knife of web and mobile instant messaging services, this morning announced that it has achieved over 100 million downloads of its mobile applications since its 2007 debut, thus stepping in the footsteps of the likes of Facebook, Google (Maps), and Opera (Mini) when it comes to the number of app downloads reached.
Kevin Jenkins has titled his debut solo album Step Inside, but he has literally stepped away from the background as a sideman and onto the foreground as lead singer/bassist of his own band.
They released their debut album, One Step Beyond, in 1979 and went on to become the biggest-selling singles band of the 1980s.
She directed Rashan Stone's debut play, Two Step, and her production of Langston Hughes's classic Harlem musical Simply Heavenly has transferred to the West End following its success at the Young Vic.
