This weekend I got to observe a part of the “Fezziwig Dance Weekend” in A Christmas Carol rehearsals. As always, it was loads of fun. Especially for me. Since I didn’t have to dance. That wouldn’t have been so fun for me. Because the actors were dancing for 15 hours this weekend. As you know, us producers are very fragile, and our delicate bodies aren’t built for such strenuous physical exertion.

Anyway, the dancing looked great. Each year, the Choreography Supervisor re-stages Rob Ashford’s original choreography. Each dancer learns a specific “dance track,” so that dancer A has the same positioning throughout the dance as dancer A did last year. Same for dancer B, obviously… In order to keep things straight, each dance track has a name, which the dancers wear on stickers on their shirts. My favorite names are “Ginger,” “Muffin the Baker,” and, of course, “Alice the Cook.”

Posted by Adam Immerwahr, Producing Associate at McCarter Theatre

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