Original sentence: After a pre-Broadway tryout at the Shubert Theatre in Boston in December 1949, the production opened at the Winter Garden Theatre on January 17 1950 and ran for 46 performances.The cast included David Burns, Jack Cassidy, Jack Gilford, Carl Reiner, Bobby Van, and Gwen Verdon, making her New York stage debut; she also served as Jack Cole's assistant choreographer
Edited sentence: All his jazz: the life & death of Bob Fosse (1998), Da Capo Press, ISBN 0306808374, p.Gottfried, Martin.Gwen Verdon made her New York stage debut as a dancer.The cast included David Burns, Jack Cassidy, Jack Gilford, Carl Reiner, Bobby Van.The dances of Cole and Verdon were a smorgasbord of ethnic styles, his trademark.The production opened on Broadway at the Winter Garden Theatre on January 17 1950 and ran for 46 performances.The revue had a pre-Broadway tryout at the Shubert Theatre in Boston in December 1949.Verdon also served as Jack Cole's assistant choreographer