On Your Toes

While teaching music at Knickerbocker University, Junior Donal tries to pursuade Sergei Alexandrovich, the director of the Russain Ballet, to stage a friend’s jazz ballet Slaughter on Tenth Avenue. After getting involved with the company’s prima ballerina, Vera Barnova, Junior is forced to take over the male lead in Slaughter. Trouble ensues when Vera’s lover and dance partner hires two thugs to kill Junior. The amazing score to On Your Toes features such standards as “Glad to be Unhappy,” “It’s Got to be Love” and “On Your Toes”.