A tap number can coexist with a classically based pas de deux in the same evening.

At one recent show, he said, he performed a tap number with the back of his costume open because there wasn't time to snap it all shut.

"It has all the ladies doing their tap numbers while their younger selves are upstage, mirroring them," he said.

Once on stage, the dancers burst into an all-out tap number, called "Audition," and the show is under way, most promisingly.

Should one criticise King Lear because it does not have a big tap number to close the first half?

"Raindrops Keep Falling on My Head," is a tap number.

Story" he played the role of Sammy Davis' father and choreographed the tap numbers.

The title song brings on an all-out tap number, choreographed by the show's director, Scott Thompson.

Baakari Wilder works his usual magic in a few sadly abbreviated tap numbers.

His tap numbers brashly aim for the extravagance of old, too.