Our Favorite Son
American Dance Machine for the 21st Century
Will Rogers Follies
Music by: Cy Coleman
Producing Artistic Director: Nikki Feirt Atkins
Director: Joshua Bergasse
Original Choreography: Tommy Tune
Choreography Reconstructed : Patti D'Beck
Lighting Design: Ken Billington
Original Costume Design: Willa Kim
Updated Costume Design: Ricky Lurie
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Working with ADM21 is always such a thrill because they reconstruct classic American musical choreography in a new way for a modern eye.
For this video, Our Favorite Son from Will Rogers Follies, Joshua Bergasse and Nikki Feirt Atkins assembled 10 original cast members and 10 current ADM21 dancers/ Rockettes. For the part of Will the tables were flipped and Cady Huffman, who played Ziegfield's Favorite in the original company, takes the center chair!
My goal was to honor the original work by Willa Kim while making it fresh and new for this striped down version.