Test your knowledge of the Great White Way’s razzle-dazzle dance history. (function(d,s,id){var js,fjs=d.getElementsByTagName(s)[0];if(d.getElementById(id))return;js=d.createElement(s);js.id=id;js.src=’https://embed.playbuzz.com/sdk.js’;fjs.parentNode.insertBefore(js,fjs);}(document,’script’,’playbuzz-sdk’)); A version of this story appeared in the May/June 2019 issue of Dance Spirit with the title “What’s Your Broadway IQ?”
One of the biggest attractions on Broadway right now is also literally the biggest attraction on Broadway right now. He’s 20 feet tall, weighs a solid ton, and is operated by 13 performers and 16 microprocessors. His name is Kong—or Kiko, as his team has dubbed him (don’t dare call him a puppet)—and he’s the […]
Last night, longtime theater legends (including Chita Rivera herself!) as well as rising stars gathered to celebrate one of Broadway’s danciest events: the third annual Chita Rivera Awards. The evening paid tribute to this season’s dancer standouts, extraordinary ensembles, and jaw-dropping choreography—on- and off-Broadway and on film. As usual, several Dance Spirit faves made it […]
Is it October 2020 yet? Playbill just announced that next year, a revival of Meredith Willson’s The Music Man will hit the Great White Way, starring everyone’s favorite Hollywood/Broadway song-and-dance man Hugh Jackman as the show’s titular charming con man Harold Hill. Given Jackman’s star turn as razzle-dazzle impresario P.T. Barnum in last year’s The […]
Today, January 11, is #AlexanderHamiltonDay: A very happy 264th birthday to Alexander Hamilton! Thanks to this most unlikely of Founding Fathers—a brilliant and ballsy orphaned immigrant who dramatically rose, then fell, then rose again—we have possibly the most successful musical of all time. We also, of course, got priceless GIFs such as this one: *When […]
The iconic 1990s musical Rent is the latest Broadway show to get the live treatment. Airing January 27, the star-studded cast includes Vanessa Hudgens as Maureen Johnson, Jordan Fisher as Mark Cohen, Tinashe as Mimi Marquez, and “RuPaul’s Drag Race” contestant Valentina as Angel. Keala Settle of The Greatest Showman will also make an appearance […]
Okay, y’all: It’s time to call it like it is. You’ve now been home from school for several days. You’ve spent some QT with the fam, gorged on all of the holiday goodies, and are finally starting to get just the sliiiiiiiiiightest bit tired of staring into space doing *~nothing~*. You’ve entered the little-understood (but […]
Every scrap of news coming from the highly-anticipated West Side Story remake has been nothing short of thrilling, tbh. First, there was the open casting call here in NYC for dancers to play the Jets and Sharks. Next, we heard the unsurprising-yet-awesome news that Justin Peck will choreograph the new movie. Now, there’s possibly the […]