How Twyla Tharp Pruned Come Fly Away In Las Vegas

“I think what I felt about the Broadway show was that it was ungroomed and needed pruning. Basically, I felt it rambled. I lightened the show. I took out some of the shadows in the underbrush. I made it more interior.” (Chris Jones: “And when Tharp references grooming and pruning, she speaks not of nips and tucks.”)