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The following is from the New York Times.
Cabaret: Precarious but Resilient
By STEPHEN HOLDEN
Stability is a word not often used to describe New York City’s fragile cabaret world, where only a few can make a full-time living, and the clubs themselves ride an economic seesaw from week to week. But because Manhattan’s three major supper clubs — [...]
The following is from THE NEW YORK TIMES
INNOCENCE AND NERVE WRAPPED INTO ONE
By Stephen Holden
The radiance of Julia Roberts and the zany spunk of Holly Golightly: that only begins to describe the seductive charms of Sutton Foster in her irresistible cabaret show, “An Evening With Sutton Foster,” at the Café Carlyle. Directed by Mark Waldrop, it might be [...]
The following is a piece from BroadwayGirlNYC. As a Theatre Professional, it is so uplifting to see the audience truly engaged in what you are working on. When it is not simply a check on the To Do List, but when the audience becomes as emotionally engaged in the work as the actors…that’s when we [...]
HISTORY
The ballroom dancing the world recognizes today is competitive ballroom dance, sometimes known as Dancesport. It is comprised of ten dances, which can all be danced in “closed ballroom” hold. The style danced in BURN THE FLOOR is called “international style” and has been danced in competition since 1920. International style ballroom dance consists of [...]
The following is from Harley Medcalf’s blog “I Just Can’t Dance”
I just can’t ballroom dance. No matter what I try, my two left feet stay firmly planted on the ground. Yet, in just ten years ballroom dancing has changed my life.
Well into the prime of my career as a concert promoter, at a chance meeting [...]
ANYA AND PASHA
JOIN THE NATIONAL TOUR OF
BURN THE FLOOR
The producers of BURN THE FLOOR, Broadway’s Latin and Ballroom dance spectacular, announced today that ANYA GARNIS and PASHA KOVALEV of TV’s “So You Think You Can Dance” will join the touring company of BURN THE FLOOR, from September 7, 2010 [...]
Dear Fellow Theatre Lovers:
When I first had the honor of seeing selections from IN THE HEIGHTS just prior to its opening off-Broadway – I was taken with the upbeat rapping and hip-hop music, and absolutely charmed by the multi-cultural cast. It was not until a year later, as I was watching the show ON Broadway [...]
Full given name: Joseph Morales
Hometown: Wahiawa, Hawaii
Zodiac sign: Aries
Audition song: I’ll never tell….
Special skills: The claw games in arcades where you win the stuffed animals. I’m a beast.
First Broadway show ever saw: RENT
If you could go back in time and catch any Broadway show, what would it be? Pippin
Current show you have been recommending to [...]
Lin-Manuel Miranda, who conceived the Tony Award-winning In the Heights and wrote the music and lyrics, is a new voice with an old soul. The show, which celebrates life in a Washington Heights barrio, is propelled by the rhythms of hip hop and Latin music – uncommon sounds, to be sure, in musical theater – [...]
When I first heard about IN THE HEIGHTS, the thought that immediately popped into my head was, “hmmm…a Latino West side Story.” I got curious about the show and I did what almost 100% of people do: I googled it! From that very first glimpse, I really was taken and needed to know more.
The [...]