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THEATER
HUFFINGTON
09.09.12
Chaplin is set
to open on
Broadway’s
Barrymore
Theater on
Sept. 10th.
Becoming
Chaplin
BY MALLIKA RAO
t’s fair to assume anyone playing
Charlie Chaplin in a musical has
an army of proud dance teachers to
thank. Chaplin charmed audiences
through movement, so much so that the humorist W.C. Fields insisted he wasn’t an actor at all but a “goddamn ballet dancer.” Even
wearing the baggy pants and bowler hat of his
iconic creation, the Tramp, his every shrug and
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PHOTOGRAPHS BY JOAN MARCUS