Mr. Cherry's "Art Deco" was an elegant 1930's soft-shoe routine, summoning the spirit of Jabbo Smith and Billie Holiday.

When Teddy announced dramatically that he wanted to buy all three of the numbers, Neither of the Varionis went into a soft-shoe routine.

Mr. Bernstein was joined by Margaret Morrison in a suave soft-shoe routine.

In the second movement, he put on a hat and picked up a cane and strolled nonchalantly through a tribute to vaudeville soft-shoe routines.

Douglas Hay and Laurence Matthews made a bassoon duet resemble a vaudeville soft-shoe routine.

His mother gave him some elementary education between his lessons in the essentials - tap-dancing, soft-shoe routines, double shuffle handstands and cannonballs.

Mr. Coles gives pointers to Mr. Hines and Mr. Tune on one of his old soft-shoe routines.

I had to suppress an urge to break into a soft-shoe routine.

You should know that while doing so, this production uses such unlikely (but for this company, classic) devices as a set of television monitors, a wheelchair and Kabuki-flavored soft-shoe routines.

The three singers are also dancers, and "Jerry's Girls" is filled with high-stepping chorus lines, tap numbers, soft-shoe routines and generally first-rate choreography.