April 29 marks International Dance Day, a day of celebration of both dance and those who bring the artform to life. With Broadway eyeing a return to the stage, many fans are eager to experience the razzle-dazzle of a large dance number on stage. In honor of the holiday, Playbill is taking a look back at some other dance-heavy shows that have made their mark on the Main Stem.
From the Golden Age of Broadway to more modern productions, check out these 48 dance-heavy musicals that have chasséd their way to Broadway.
The cast of 42nd Street.
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After Midnight
Eloise Kropp and Cary Tedder in Dames at Sea
Sutton Foster (center) in Cole Porter's Anything Goes.
Joan Marcus
Company
Jeremy Daniel
Marc Kudisch and Faith Prince in Bells Are Ringing
Liam Mower and Elliott Hanna in Billy Elliot the Musical Live
The company
Deen van Meer
The company of Bombay Dreams
A Scene from Fosse
Taylor Iman Jones and company
Joan Marcus
Martin Vidnovic and Meg Bussert in Brigadoon
A Chorus Line
A scene from Burn the Floor.
The Can-Can company
Photo by Craig Schwartz
Cast
Brent Barrett stars as Billy Flynn
Jeremy Daniel
Karen Ziemba (center) and the company of Contact.
Ashley Tuttle, Benjamin G. Bowman, Elizabeth Parkinson, John Selya, and the company
Joan Marcus
The cast of Crazy for You
A scene from Jerome Robbins' Broadway
Martha Swope
Charlie Neshyba-Hodges and company
Leanne Cope and Robert Fairchild
Tristram Kenton
Gwen Verdon in Damn Yankees.
The New York Public Library
Georgia Engel (center) and company in The Drowsy Chaperone.
Photo by Joan Marcus
A Scene from Saturday Night Fever
Martha Swope/©NYPL for the Performing Arts
Andre De Shields
©NYPL for the Performing Arts
Adrienne Warren and cast of Tina: The Tina Turner Musical
Manuel Harlan
A Scene from Bring in 'Da Noise, Bring in 'Da Funk
The cast of Footloose
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Ephraim Sykes and cast of Ain't Too Proud
Matthew Murphy
Cast of Moulin Rouge!
Matthew Murphy
Clarice Taylor, Stephanie Mills, and Dee Dee Bridgewater in The Wiz
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Cast
Harvey Fierstein and Marissa Jaret Winokur
Paul Kolnik
Cast
Company of Holiday Inn
Joan Marcus
Sutton Foster in Thoroughly Modern Millie
Joan Marcus
Andréa Burns in In the Heights
Joan Marcus
Ana Villafañe in On Your Feet!
Perry Laylon Ojeda and Tai Jimenez in the 1998 revival of On The Town
Christopher Chadman and Leland Palmer
Gwen Verdon
Chita Rivera
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Cast of the Will Rogers Follies
Cast of The Prom
Deen van Meer
