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In a brassy set piece from the 1952 classic “Singin’ in the Rain,” its star, Gene Kelly, impersonates a newbie hoofer seeking fame on the Great White Way.

In West, every character is out of place — an Ivy Leaguer beguiled by Hollywood, a vaudeville hoofer reduced to door-to-door selling, a Midwesterner lured to California for his health, a suspiciously mature child actor.

“Hope springs so eternal, an 83-year-old hoofer recently took a turn.”

American Contemporary Ballet’s ‘Astaire Dances’ The L.A-based company returns with a new edition of this stylish and sophisticated offering that celebrates the legendary hoofer’s classic dance routines.

“The Phantom of the Opera” has been running on Broadway longer than many of the industry’s hoofers have been alive.