Cry-Baby
We took in the last of our annivesary week shows this afternoon. We thought we were going to see A Catered Affair, but it wasn’t on tkts yesterday so we picked up Cry-Baby tickets instead. Since this is the latest musical based on a John Waters film it was on our list of shows to [...]
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Friday Geek Out: Center Stage
I’m not sure what spurred this run of dance movies (maybe the return of Dancing with the Stars), but it has been fun and I’ve got one for this week too. Back in 2000, Center Stage was released.
It’s sort of like Fame as students work to get into a program at American Ballet Academy (which [...]
Friday Geek Out: Fame
Last week I wrote about the 80s dance movies. There is one more, but it deserves special treatment because of the mini-empire it spawned. Fame is the forerunner to the High School Musical craze of today.
Fame started out as a film in 1980. It followed the high school careers of a group of students at [...]
Friday Geek Out: 80s Dance-o-Rama
The 80s were great for a lot of things, especially dancing at the movies. In the span of just five years we had three iconic movies: Flashdance (1983), Footloose (1984) and Dirty Dancing (1987). I, of course, loved them all.
Flashdance was the story of a welder/stripper who really wanted to be a dancer. She managed [...]
In the Heights
It was a fantastic afternoon seeing In the Heights, a new-to-Broadway show that just began previews Thursday night. The show, which played a critically acclaimed off-Broadway run last summer, vibrates with a fantastic energy from start to finish and is infused with great Latin rhythms and dance. The show takes place on a street corner [...]
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Friday Geek Out: Newsies
Long before High School Musical there was another Disney musical directed by Kenny Ortega (it was his feature film directorial debut coming off his stint as choreographer on Dirty Dancing) that featured teens singing, dancing… and staging a strike against New York’s newspapers. Newsies, from 1992, was based on a real 1899 [...]
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Another Show Weekend…
Two shows in two weeks. We’re off to see In The Heights on Saturday afternoon. The show was a hit off-Broadway and it begins previews on Broadway tomorrow before it officially opens March 8.
Check out its TV commercial below.
This is also a good time to repost this hilarious HSM2 paradoy/In The Heights promo.
Come [...]
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Applause
We had an early Valentine’s Day date yesterday afternoon as we went to New York City Center for the Encores! production of Applause, the 1970 Tony Winning Best Musical. Applause is a musical version of the classic 1950 Bette Davis movie All About Eve.
The show’s plot, like the movie, revolves around [...]
It’s Timeless…
New poster… new TV commercial… pure fun indeed!
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Friday Geek Out: Roundhouse
Zip back in time 16 years to August 1992 and you’d find Nickelodeon’s debut of SNICK (Saturday Night Nick), which was geared to a teen audience featuring shows like Are You Afraid of the Dark?, Clarissa Explains It All, Pete & Pete, and my favorite of them all—Roundhouse.
Roundhouse was a musical, comedy, educational show that [...]
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