A noble institution, the American Dance Machine. Founded in 1978 by Lee Theodore, an ex-Broadway hoofer (West Side Story, Tenderloin, on and on) turned choreographer (Baker Street, Flora, the Red Menace, on and on), it preserved and presented dances from musicals that otherwise might have been lost forever, simultaneously running a school to develop Terpsichorean talent. Languishing after Ms. Theodore's demise in 198…
