You've Never Seen Choreography Like This. (with Christopher Gattelli)

Leave It On The Dance Floor

Hurrdat Media

Society & Culture, Tv & Film

3.6 • 969 Ratings

🗓️ 17 September 2024

⏱️ 63 minutes

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Broadway LEGEND, Christpher Gattelli is taking time out of his insane schedule to sit down with Abby on Leave It On The Dance Floor to chat about his STELLAR career starting out as a dance from Pennsylvania to Tony Award-Winning Choreographer who is responsible for a slew of iconic productions including Martin Short: Fame Becomes Me (2006), High Fidelity (2006), The Ritz (2007), Sunday in the Park with George (Revival, 2008), South Pacific (2008), 13 (2008), "Women On the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown," "Godspell," Newsies (2012), and the 2015 revival of "The King and I," "The Cher Show," "Spongebob Squarepants," and so many more!

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0:00.0	Get up, get on.
0:02.0	My world is with my girls,
0:05.0	living on the dance floor.
0:08.0	Hello everybody, welcome back to leave it on the dance floor I am so excited I
0:16.8	want to get up out of my chair because sitting next to me is none other than Tony Award winning Broadway choreographer Chris Gatelli.
0:30.0	Yes! And I knew him when.
0:33.0	Let's just say that.
0:34.4	I had the honor of knowing this kid
0:37.2	when he was a kid.
0:39.0	That's right.
0:40.0	Now, I'm not sure how much older I am than you, but I feel like I was an adult and teaching and long into it when you were just a kid.
0:49.6	I'm not sure.
0:51.8	I'm 58. 58.
0:54.0	51.
0:55.0	So I'm 7 years older than you and you're a kid competing and I was there with my students.
1:00.0	Well this, you started so early, you started teaching so young.
1:03.2	Yeah, I did it.
1:04.8	Yeah.
1:05.8	And driving those kids' asses back and forth to New York City.
1:08.6	We'll get into that.
1:10.0	So I didn't know this, but you originally were a student of Fred connects.
1:13.3	Yep.
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