Some of Richard Burton's numbers in Camelot are also considered patter songs. A repetition of a song sung earlier in a musical. A musical number, a song or a dance or both, that creates such excitement in an audience that the show has to pause because people keep cheering and applauding. Swings are people who know the chorus numbers perfectly, so they can equally replace an absent chorus member at the front of the line to the right as well as one at the back to the left. Ask a regular chorus member to simply switch over, and they're bound to mess up, for they have already perfected doing it from one side.
Swings are capable of doing either side, for they have learned both sections well.
The hardy souls who take a show on the road to less fortunate towns like Denver. The touring company of Parade consisted mostly of the original Broadway performers, and the composer himself conducted the orchestra. In terms of people, a seductress. In terms of music, a short introductory segment, a teaser, that's often repeated several times before a solo or between verses. Let me know your opinion of this page.