Savion Glover

Um, They also, they did this film with motion capture, human dancers dancing out the scenes.

And as you found out, I think today, the most famous tap dancer in the world, Savion Glover, did the dancing for the protagonist, Mumble.

And it's amazing.

I mean, it's the fact that they did motion capture is I guess what saves this from being a disaster in terms of it being a jukebox musical, like the fact that they were like, so this one has to be an environmentalist screed because it's about Antarctica in 2006.

That's why.

If you like to tap dance, you should email us at boxofficegross at gmail.com with your favorite number that you like to dance to.

uh or your favorite clip of savion glover himself tap dancing isn't it crazy that he was in bamboozled he was the lead of bamboozled the spike lee film bamboozled he is the lead of that film uh you should email us to tell us what you think about tap dancing about bamboozled about happy feet or about anything else yeah and um tell me your favorite ti song Other than what you know.

Shout out to the listener who emailed us after the Scary Movie 6 episode to tell me that no, no.

And the thing about it that's so devastating is that it was this ginormous hit.

And then so many people who were involved in bringing it to fruition sort of fell away to into obscurity and other shows that owe their debt to shuffle along became much better remembered and that is something that is talked about within the show so it is indeed a how the first act is that how this show came to be like broadway breakdown it's sort of like okay let's figure out the context of what the show is and george c wolf and um Savion Glover really think outside of the box in terms of presenting certain moments and getting abstract and theatrical and metaphorical with certain parts.

And then act two is the success and then the fallout of that success.

And This reunion was reunion of the entire original company, sans Joshua Henry, who was replaced by Norm Lewis.

Tap dancing? Yeah, I started tap dancing when I was eight and stopped at 16.

And I've danced with Savion Glover.

I've danced with the granddaughters of the Nicholas Brothers.

I've danced with Skip Cunningham.

Of course.

Yeah, it actually was inspired by Savion Glover.

Savion Glover and Shamel Pitts.

But that...

I've seen Savion Glover at the Dakota not too long ago, and obviously famous black tap dancer.

And he just practiced on stage for four hours with three saxophone players to the point where the audience members were leaving.

he just practiced and he just riffed and he just went and he just went on and on and on.

I have one final, final question for you, which is two parts.

I learned how to do it as a kid a little bit.

I'm not following the exploits of Savion Glover.

Savion Glover, yeah.

I have a bootleg with him and Wayne Short, a quartet and an orchestra at Carnegie Hall.

I'm sure it was incredible.

Hmm.

Savion Glover.

Did I win?

Let's try it.

You know, let me tell you why I don't like tap dancing.

Remember when they used to warm up back in the days? Savion Glover.

This nigga here, and it was the nigga who came on, and he was challenging Bill Cosby.

Challenge! On that one episode.

Oh, that's him? Yeah,

yeah.

Savion Glover.

Savion Glover.