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FLUFF LE COQUE ...watching rehearsal Fluff?╟÷-------------------------------- From often can be seen backstage as early as 2 p.m. or 3 p.m. She watches the twice-nightly show (three Saturday) ?╟úalmost every night,?╟Ñ and, when she doesn't, her assistant Pratt does. ?╟úI love the show. I love the dancers. I love show business,?╟Ñ she says enthusiastically. ?╟úI've spent all my life doing it. ?╟úWe work together, all of us, to make the show good. The captains are as responsible as I am and do more than their share. Michael and 1 take care of the principals. They do have ego and they should have ego because that's what makes them good. I understand temperament.?╟Ñ Regarding common misconceptions about dancers, she says, ?╟úI don't know why people think it (a performer's life) is glamorous. They take classes all the time. They spend a long time warming up. It's glamorous when you?╟╓re on stage, but you're also giving of yourself creatively to the audience/' In Le Coque's "view, the most distressing misconception is ?╟úfor people to consider girls in a show as ?╟ showgirls.?╟╓ A showgirl is really a girl who does nothing but walk and display costumes. Dancers resent being called showgirls; they work hard and have had a lot of training. ?╟úA lot of people do not realize what talent there is in these (production) shows. It looks easy because they do it so well, but it?╟╓s difficult being in the chorus. They are very regimented and do not have much freedom of interpretation, and that, for some people, can become a source of irritation ?╟÷- then they have to find new challenges.?╟Ñ And Fluff Le Coque would be the first to understand the need for that. Sunday, December 13, 19B1/Las Vegas Review-Journal/?!- MGM HOTEL JUBILEE?╟╓ SHOW DANCERS Wayne Kodey/Review-Journal ...learning the moves