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"I Can Do That" is a song from the musical A Chorus Line .
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"I Can Do That" is a song from the musical A Chorus Line .
As with the rest of the musical numbers in A Chorus Line, this song was inspired by real-life stories of dancers. CityBeat explains "nervous Mike...tells how he took over his sister’s dance class opportunity". [1]
TheatrePeople described the musical style as "lively jazz swing", [2] while MovieMet called it "an energetic, post-Vaudevillian song-and-dance" and added it "will remind film fans of Donald O’Connor’s “Make ‘em Laugh” routine from “Singin’ in the Rain”". [3] Dance Informa deemed it a "potentially exuberant number", [4] and Stage Whispers described it as "cute". [5] It has also been described as a "high-energy number". [6]
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