The lyric goes “I got rhythm, I got music, I got my man – Who could ask for anything more?”

At John Jay High School for the past five months, the answer to the question “Who could ask for anything more?” has been “Anne-Marie Galler.”

As in “more steps,” “more speed,” “more synchronized.”

Galler is the choreographer who has turned dozens of John Jay kids into tap-dancing John Jay kids who – starting tonight – present the tap-happy Gershwin musical “Crazy for You,” with Susan Stroman’s original Broadway choreography.

At a recent rehearsal, Galler worked the curtain call – a can-you-top-this affair – adding bits here and there and working the panting cast over and over, while her 5-year-old son, Tristan, slept in the front row of the auditorium. (Perhaps he’s not a tap fan.)

If, at the end, the cast felt like they’d been dancing for months, it’s because they have been. A grant from the school’s Arts Alive booster program paid for a five-week tap workshop Galler led for 68 students, stretching from November into January. They met once a week for three hours.

Director Amy Geiger says some of the students didn’t want to be in the show – the cast numbers nearly 60 – but just wanted to learn how to tap. Those who joined the show have been impressing their director.

“It’s absolutely breathtaking to watch high-schoolers re-enact Broadway choreography,” Geiger says. “It stops your heart every time you see it.”

From the looks of things at a recent rehearsal, it’s breathtaking for high schoolers, too. After the fourth-time through one section of the curtain call, many are panting, clearly winded by the workout.

Galler estimates 80 percent of the “Crazy for You” cast had never tapped before they showed up for that first workshop. Those who knew tap became instant teachers.

“Their dedication was unbelievable,” the choreographer says. “They practiced at home and would keep me after to ask me questions. How often does that ever happen?”

It helped that most of the students had a musical background – rhythm wasn’t an issue, she says. The big challenge was Stroman’s Broadway choreography, which fills a 300-page book.

“I didn’t dumb it down and she’s notorious for her difficulty,” Galler says. “When you tap, the faster you tap, the smaller the steps get. The dexterity of the feet is usually something that’s learned over many years. These kids had a crash course and the hardest thing was getting those tiny steps up to tempo.”

Galler gushes about senior Ben Moss, who plays Bobby Child, the banker who just wants to dance and be in show business.

“Ben Moss is a consummate singer-actor,” Galler says, “but he wasn’t a real dancer until now. He has many solo numbers in tap and Gene Kelly style and his aptitude for picking things up is astonishing to me.”

Ross says he, too, was astonished when, having learned basic taps in the workshop, he arrived at the first rehearsal to discover he’d have to do a lot more than time steps.

“It was all this crazy stuff that I never thought I’d be able to do in my whole life,” he says with a laugh. “But now I’m doing it.”

John Jay has been doing a lot of Stephen Schwartz musicals in recent years – “Pippin” and “Children of Eden” – so this year’s all-Gershwin score is an opportunity to sing standards, Ross says. The score includes “Embraceable You,” “Things Are Looking Up,” “Slap That Bass” and “Nice Work If You Can Get It.”

But it really is all about the dancing.

“I’ve never had to practice for anything as much as I did for tap-dancing,” he says. “I’m lucky because I’m fairly nimble and agile, but I have at least a half-hour’s worth of dance in the show.”

Junior Keagan Gros was one of those dancers who stepped forward to guide the new tappers. She’s the dance captain and plays Tess, the lead Follies dancer.

“A lot of them had never danced and they’re phenomenal,” says Gros, who has studied dance since she was 5. “Even for me, learning these dances has been challenging, but they’ve done an unbelievable job learning it.”

She says Stroman’s choreography is intricate, but the difficulty level is high because of the way she connects the steps.

“If you’d think, ‘OK, from a chassé, you’d go with your right foot,’ she does it with the left. And the in-between steps are much different than anyone would ever think. It makes a simple step so much harder.”

Senior Sam Breslin plays Moose, part of the cowboy trio.

“My friend was in a musical in seventh grade, way back, and he’s been trying to teach me a time step for four years and I couldn’t get it,” he says. “Then we did this tap workshop. I’m a bit awkward, but I found if I forget all my reservations and just do it, I can do it.”

“And the day came where we had to do a time step and I was prepared and after an hour’s work, I had it.”

Many hours of practice and an hour’s work.

“Strangely enough, I’m starting to enjoy it,” he says, giving credit to his choreographer.

“She knows how to get all these people in the cast who’ve never tap-danced before to suddenly learn how to move their feet like this,” he says. “She’s done an incredible job.”

Who could ask for anything more?

“Crazy for You”

Where: John Jay High School, 60 North Salem Road, Cross River.

When: 7 p.m., tonight; 8 p.m. tomorrow and Saturday; 2 p.m. Saturday.

Tickets: $16; $13 for students and seniors.

Details: At jjhs.klschools.org/.

With: Ben Moss, Kathleen Hefferon, Calvin Pickett, Nicolas Pesce, Allie Cashel, Eric Silver, Arielle Schechtman, Wyatt Cadley, Erica Lupinacci, Matthew Surdej, Lauren Grossman, Keagan Gros, Madeline Skillman, Emily Miller, Celine Allende, Sammy Cotumaccio, Josie Felt, Carolyn Fine, Samantha Nardozzi, Elena Pascullo, Samantha Wekstein, Sam Breslin, Erik Perry, Kieran Roberts, Evan Lobell, Luca Buccellati, Ben Perry, Ben Krieger, John Vander Werff, Jake Goldstein, Nick Springer, Taylor Clark, Ariel Genovese, Shannon Keane, Erin Knapp, Emma Mason, Emma Pickett, Emily Feierman, Jenna Flamberg, Kia Hunter, Johanna Lewis, Emilie Schattman, Ariana Seraita, Annie Shiel, Olivia Walsh, Nicole Arena, Casey Feinberg, Rebecca Poser, Marina Salzano, Chelsea Brezak, Jaymee Hodges, Lelia Sherwood-St. John, Alexandra Morris, Molly Sinsheimer