Given the tight Aldea kitchen, the division of labor is important: with limited work space and hot surfaces everywhere, the choreography is crucial.
At the risk of being compared with the Austrian emperor who is supposed to have complained that a Mozart opera had "too many notes," I have to say that there's way too much choreography in "Hot 'n Cole".
The big winner at the 2013 ceremony, "Kinky Boots," which netted six awards including best musical, actor, score, and choreography, has been a hot ticket since the Tonys, with producers recently recouping their $13.5 million capitalization.
Lori was a master of the complicated choreography of towel-shifting, scrubbing and rinsing hot water limb by limb, making it all feel like a delicate, cleansing massage.
These long stretches left no time to sit, and included meet-and-greets with fans, bouncing onto the court for "hot time-outs," and, of course, flawless high-impact choreography.
Schafer also performs "Hot Honey Rag" from the musical Chicago, performing the original choreography by Bob Fosse, which was taught to her by original revival cast member Ann Reiking.
Back at the Big Apple stage, an unexpectedly huge crowd is watching Hot Chip, almost all dressed in white and doing engagingly awkward choreography to Flutes.
The director is the sizzling hot Jack O'Brien ("Hairspray," "The Invention of Love," "The Full Monty"), with choreography by his frequent collaborator, Jerry Mitchell.
But David Byrne's music has its own urgency, and there is a hot, liquid flow to Ms. Tharp's response that makes much of this choreography feel like molten lava.
And so on, through categories like best choreography, in which "Monty's" Jerry Mitchell will face Susan Stroman, the white-hot choreographer of the moment, who won last year for "Contact".
