Contemporary Dancer Melanie Moore has come a long way since being named America’s Favorite Dancer on Season 8 of “So You Think You Can Dance,” where she became known for her captivating presence and elegant, fluid moves. In recent years, the 25-year-old has been blowing up Broadway: She originated the role of Peter Pan in […]
Zendaya’s official Finding Neverland: The Album music video, for her remixed version of the song “Neverland,” is filled with some awesomely dancey moments—and a little Broadway magic. Zendaya surrounded by waltzing dancers. (screenshot via Vimeo) The video takes place on a glam theater stage and features choreography by Maksim Chmerkovskiy and Ian Eastwood, who both […]
Thanksgiving is a bad day to be a turkey, but a GREAT day to be a Broadway baby: The Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade will feature numbers from no fewer than eight musicals this year. And that’s something for which we’re truly thankful. We’ll see the cast of On Your Feet! kick off the whole shebang, […]
The big screen gets the Oscars; the small screen has the Emmys; the world’s top singers duke it out every year at the Grammys. And while Broadway already has the Tony Awards, we wanted to take it one step further. Welcome to The Jazz Hand Awards (aka the Jazzies), honoring the best, brightest and—above all—danciest […]
Melanie Moore bursts onto the Finding Neverland stage with a gigantic center-split leap the moment the curtain rises. She’s dressed as Peter Pan—yet over the course of the two-and-a-half hour Broadway retelling of J.M. Barrie’s path to creating Peter Pan, Moore dons nine costumes, six pairs of shoes and four wigs. In fact, her backstage […]
Pop quiz! Who’s getting really excited for this Sunday’s Tony Awards? a) The Broadway community. b) Your grandma. c) Anybody who loves dance. d) ME ME OMG ME. e) All of the above. The correct answer, of course, is E. But let’s put special emphasis on C here for a minute, shall we? Because the […]
Today marked the last of Broadway Week on NBC’s “TODAY.” And while we were treated to performances from many shows on The Great White Way—including On the Town, Chicago and Something Rotten!—one giant, dance-filled production was missing: Finding Neverland. As luck would have it, rival show “Good Morning America” took care of that over on […]
There’s nothing Mia Michaels can’t conquer. With work for her own dance company (Mia Michaels’ RAW), concert productions (for both Madonna and Celine Dion), feature films (Rock of Ages) and TV shows (“So You Think You Can Dance”) already under her choreographic belt, you may be thinking “What’s left?” But the three-time Emmy Award–winner is […]