Staying Alive
It's five years later and Tony Manero's Saturday Night Fever is still burning. Now he's strutting toward his biggest challenger yet - making it as a dancer on the Broadway stage.
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Staying Alive
1983
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Da Understudy
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Life imitates art when the understudy of a Broadway production finds a role he’s willing to kill for.
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