On Your Toes (music & lyrics by Richard Rodgers and Lorenz Hart; book by Rodgers, Hart and George Abbott) is a good deal oftener on its uppers. The musical that in 1936 really put jazz ballet on Broadway, On Your Toes was perhaps from the start pretty much all thumbs where it wasn't nifty footwork. Time has tended to merge the show and the ballet into one, but they are scarcely more alike than Buffalo and Niagara Falls.
Not that with its Balanchine choreography On Your Toes still hasn't its points as a dance show. With its throbbing
Rodgers score, Slaughter on Tenth...
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