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The Real McCoy
1974
Creative Team
Choreographer
Eliot Feld
Lighting Designer
Costume Designer
Set Designer
Running Time
19 min
Music
Composer
Composition
Impromptu in Two Keys
Prelude No. 2 in C-sharp Minor
Three-Quarter Blues
Promenade, (“Walking the Dog”)
Merry Andrew
“Jazzbo Brown Blues” from Porgy and Bess
Premiere
Date
December 6, 1974Location
Newman Theatre (New York, NY)Company
The Feld BalletPremiere Cast
Credits & Notes
The program contained the following lyrics to the song “At Long Last Love” by Cole Porter:
“Is it an earthquake
or simply a shock?
Is it the good turtle soup
or merely the mock?
Is it a cocktail
this feeling of joy
or is what I feel
the Real McCoy?
Have I the right hunch
or have I the wrong?
Will it be Bach I shall hear
or just a Cole Porter song?”
The Real McCoy was made possible with public funds from the National Endowment for the Arts.
A later production of The Real McCoy was made possible by a generous gift from a good friend of the Feld Ballet.