Hi. I'm Warren Carlyle.
I'm the choreographer on The Music Man, and I am here today with Playbill
to teach you my favorite section of “76 Trombones”.
It's the cakewalk.
Get ready.
Putting together
the cast of Music Man was a crazy, fun task.
We have.
We have huge range of ages, from teeny tiny to middle age
to slightly older than that.
It was a really fun challenge to find a really interesting,
colorful group of people who have the talent to really,
really dance, to really, really sing, and to really, really act.
We had a blast putting this cast together.
Music Man is an iconic Broadway show.
So firstly, that slightly overwhelming.
It's an overwhelming thought to try and kind of create that.
And with the dance, I took my time.
I really took three years I really took three full years to develop the dance.
And “76 Trombones” is all about belief.
It's all about faith.
It's all about those beautiful shapes and if you if you believe you're holding
a trombone, then you're holding a trombone.
And I hope by the end the audience actually can see instruments
in the company's hands.
Today, everyone at home is going to learn one of my favorite sections
from the show as the cake walk from “76 Trombones”.
And over the course of the no, I kind of assemble different sections.
And the cake walk is when it finally, finally comes together and we make a band
get ready.
I'm about to teach you a fun sequence from “76 Trombones”.
And before we start, I wanted to introduce my two amazing assistants today.
My first assistant for today is Emily Jewel Hoder.
Here she is. Come on in.
Hi, this is Emily and Ethen Green-Younger.
Younger, his Ethen.
All right.
These are the greatest assistants in Broadway history,
and they're going to be with us today as we learn this combination
We're going to start with our right foot.
And actually, if you want to hold instruments, you want to be a piccolo.
What's your instrument? Clarinet. All right.
I'll do a clarinet.
So we're going to slowly, carefully the right heel hits the floor.
We do heel and heel and touch.
Switch Left, right, left.
Look, do that one more time.
All right.
My perfect assistants. Ready?
Now I'm a drum. Five, six, right. Heel.
Right.
Heel and heel and touch.
Switch.
And on that switch, we're going to turn our head sharply.
And when I was choreographing this,
I described it like, when you're building a railroad
and you hit the spike into the track, that's the sound that the orchestra makes.
So I want to do our heads.
Remember, I wanted our heads to go that sharply just like this.
Five, six, seven.
We go and heel and heel and touch
left.
Right. Same thing. Head.
So, yeah, one more time.
Now we're going to face this way.
So now at home, you can copy and you can be on the exact same foot.
Seamless. Here's your right foot.
First five, six.
Here we go.
Thank you. And heel and touch.
Hook left, right, left.
Look. Yeah. Good. Turn around.
Here's the next section.
We take our right foot and we'll get a touch.
Touch and touch beyond that touch and a little slide through.
And we end on a forced arch.
Do that one more times from that.
Passe a 6,7. We touch.
Touch and touch beyond for stage.
And then we chug around three times.
Chug, chug, chug.
From there, we gather the feet.
Ba ba ba ba ba ba.
And we lean way back. Hold it.
We lean way back. Great.
And we call that step risk the farm. Right risk of the farm.
I used to yell it on the microphone in rehearsal.
I used to yell Risk at the farm because it was about going as far back as we could.
Let's see that much from the top six, seven
and heel and heel and touch head and left and right
hook.
Touch and touch beyond hook.
Chug, chug, chug.
Risk the farm
Risk the farm. Lift the foot. Yeah.
Good. Take a deep breath.
How's it going at home? Are you doing okay?
You keeping up?
All right, so now we're going to turn around.
Face me from the top
You guys are the best. Here we go.
Six, seven, eight.
Left look.
Touch and touch.
Beyond swag.
The ba ba ba ba ba ba ba ba.
On the front and the front.
Pick the foot up
Relax. Good. So turn back around.
So we get to risk the farm, right?
We're risking the farm.
We pick up the downstage foot.
Pick it up, right.
And then we march up another two,
three, four, one, two.
And that has a driving feel. Right.
Right into the ground.
And it ends in a very proud. Show me that proud position.
two. And look at that forced arch.
If you can see at home, a really good
four starts. Yeah.
And then we do what we call the slow drag.
Six, seven, eight, one.
Bah bah bah bah bah bah.
And very proud and very proud.
We do this for a very long time, generally until the audience applauds.
Right. That's our rule.
Okay, let's do that much from the top.
How you doing? Okay.
All right. Okay.
Here we go.
five, six, seven, eight.
And heel and heel and touch.
Look. Left and right. Left sharp head.
Touch and touch.
Beyond swag
Pick it up. March.
Five and six and seven.
And very expensive.
Very expensive
We keep doing this.
Five, six, seven.
Turn eight goods from there.
The final section.
So from something very restrained like this, we now do something really fun.
Right?
Okay, so my heels go right,
left, scoot left, right, left, scoot left, right.
Left, scoot left, right, left, scoot.
And it's like someone's pulling you by the hip.
Right All right, let's just do that step a couple of times.
Face me.
Five, six, seven.
We actually just go on the diagonal a little bit more.
Take a go that way a little bit.
About six, seven.
or one, two, three, four and five and six.
It's over.
And for today, let's do five and six is over right past the camera.
All right.
I want to do the top here.
Oh, take a deep breath.
Everyone at home, take a deep breath.
Take a deep breath. Here we go.
It starts with the right foot.
Nice and easy and nice and proud.
This has got a lot of restraint to it. Right.
Here we go.
So now for everyone at home, we'll do a version of this
where my amazing assistant Emily and EG are going to say it this way.
So when you're at home, you'll be able to watch and you'll be on the same foot.
All right, so now I'm the front
All right.
Nice and easy.
Five, six, seven.
Right foot and heel and heel and touch.
okay, so now my two assistants and get it going to be the cake walk.
From the top.
Get ready. Here it comes!
okay.
There's another version we're going to face away from the camera.
Let's go, Emily.
Let's go. EG
Ready? Everyone at home
we're going to start on the right foot.
Get ready. Here we go. Go.
Thank you, Emily and EG!
And thank you!
Thank you so much.
Thank you so much for watching. Thank you so much for joining.
Thank you Playbill!
And I can't wait for you all to catch The Music Man at the Winter Garden Theatre.