collaborator Hermes Pan, “Top Hat” features some of their most iconic numbers: the flirtatious “Isn’t This a Lovely Day (to be Caught in the Rain),” the infamous “Cheek to Cheek” with the feather dress and Astaire’s highly celebrated tap solo during “Top Hat, White Tie and ...
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Campy Love and the Underdog: Rob Reiner’sThis Is Spinal Tap October 10, 2021 This Is Spinal Tap is coated with the stylized veneer of a rockumentary turned inside out or, rather, back on itself as self-conscious dress-up, playful disguise. The cultivated image of[…] ...
The fall for each other, for reals. Astaire plays Petrov, a ballet dancer with a respectable image in the media as a solemn but often hot-headed Russian who dances for a ballet company based in Paris. Rogers plays Linda Keene, a popular tap dancer who, unbeknownst, gets mentioned in tab...
Year With Frog and Toad, A (Rental) Yeomen of the Guard (Rental) You Never Know (Rental) You’re a Good Man, Charlie Brown (1966 Rental) You’re a Good Man, Charlie Brown (1999 Rental) You’re a Good Man, Charlie Brown (No reed books; 1966 Broadway Production) You’re Gonna Lov...
” British luminariesMichael PowellandEmeric Pressburgermade one of their most acclaimed films three years prior with the ballet dramaThe Red Shoes, which features a breathtaking seventeen minute ballet sequence filled with gorgeously designed sets and costumes, outstanding dancing, and shot in glorious ...
“We’ve always been resolute that this is how it has to be,” Freya Catrin Smith, who co-created “Ride” with Jack Williams, tells The Times. “As newer writers, you want to serve the work and the idea, but at the same time, you now have to have this awa...
Although, at the beginning of the show, Billy cannot dance at all, by the end he must be able to perform complicated ballet and tap routines with assurance and a definite wow-factor. There are several dance solos, as well as singing solos, and the musical is carried by this talented ...
8:45am /Say It With Songs(1929) An accidental murder sends Al Jolson to jail, sacrificing his family. Man, some of these early musicals get DARK. Another Bacon production. 3:30pm /Navy Blues(1941) A boat full of sailors get into trouble on leave in Hawaii, as sailors on leave in ...
People that tap. Not tap dancing – I like that. If you could only eat one food forever, it would be Steamed dumplings. The worst job you’ve had Makeup counter. They made me wear their makeup brand and insisted on putting the makeup on me. I looked like a pantomime dame. ...