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Scents of jazz, blues, Dixieland, boogie-woogie, soft-shoe, calypso, rag and rumba waft by in catchy new arrangements.
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Jesse Green, New York Times, 25 Apr. 2025
Phoenix doesn’t execute a single successful soft-shoe routine.
—Armond White, National Review, 29 Nov. 2024
The two shared a nickname for Satan: Old Slew Foot, a colonial-era sobriquet for the cloven-hoofed devil that spoke to the legendary tap and soft-shoe performer.
—Alex Bhattacharji, Rolling Stone, 4 Aug. 2024
Dressed identically in pale blue suits, bow ties and straw hats, the dancers synchronize blissfully with the music (a soft-shoe tune by Harry Warren and Johnny Mercer) and with one another.
—Jesse Green, New York Times, 19 Mar. 2023
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Jesse Green, New York Times, 25 Apr. 2025
Phoenix doesn’t execute a single successful soft-shoe routine.
—Armond White, National Review, 29 Nov. 2024
The two shared a nickname for Satan: Old Slew Foot, a colonial-era sobriquet for the cloven-hoofed devil that spoke to the legendary tap and soft-shoe performer.
—Alex Bhattacharji, Rolling Stone, 4 Aug. 2024
Dressed identically in pale blue suits, bow ties and straw hats, the dancers synchronize blissfully with the music (a soft-shoe tune by Harry Warren and Johnny Mercer) and with one another.
—Jesse Green, New York Times, 19 Mar. 2023
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“Soft-shoe.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/soft-shoe. Accessed 3 Jul. 2025.
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