The athleticism
The exuberance
The sexiness
The skin tight costumes
On taut athletic sensuous bodies
The sparkles
The music
The choreography
So very Fosse
But remixed, turned on its head
Made relevant for 2023
The joyful fun quirky sexy angular fluid unexpected satisfying thrill of it
The unapologetic pride of it
The way the dancers look like they’re having the time of their lives
The way they dance full-out for a full two and a half hours
With a myriad of costume changes
While singing their hearts out
Grips your heart your throat your soul
How do you do that 8 times a week?!
They must take hour long ice baths
The physio bill must be astronomical
You think about the collective number of years
These athlete performer superstars
Have spent in class
Twenty performers all in their twenties, maybe thirties if they’re lucky
Probably dancing since before they could walk
In class since three or five or seven
Say twenty years on average
Four hundred collective years of skill
On rapturous virtuosic display
What a thrill to see it.