Tag: memphis

(Dance) Team USA!

Think your dance team is among the best of the best? Yes, you say? Then, your team needs to apply to represent Team USA at the 2013 International Cheer Union World Championship! Last year, teams from around the world (Japan, Italy, Ukraine, Norway, Chile, Nigeria!) met in fierce competition at the world championships in Orlando, […]

These Broadway Shows Are Coming to a Movie Theater Near You

This is happening! (inset photo Richard Drew/Associated Press) Not in NYC? Not a bajillionaire who could afford pricey theater tickets even if you were in NYC? Do we ever have good news for you. Beginning next month, “Direct from Broadway,” presented by Broadway Worldwide and Specticast, will bring five Broadway musicals to cinemas across the […]

“So You Think You Can Dance” Recap: Memphis Auditions

Last night we joined Nigel, Mary and funnyman Wayne Brady in Memphis—the last stop on the “So You Think You Can Dance” Season 10 audition tour! Here are a few of our favorite moments from the show. Dorian “Blu Print” Hector: Well, ladies and gents, the Dragon House Crew is back! And I think I […]

"Flashdance" the Musical

What a feeling! Have you heard that Flashdance, perhaps my favorite of the ’80s dance movies (I mean, come on—it single-handedly inspired the off-the-shoulder sweatshirt look), might be heading to Broadway? Nothing Great White Way-related is confirmed yet, but the pre-Broadway run will begin in Toronto on July 31. No word on who’ll play welder-by-day, […]

Vivian Nixon: Next in Line

At the beginning of Broadway’s Memphis, the curtain opens on a soulful shindig at an underground nightclub. With grooving dancers in jewel-toned costumes everywhere, it’s hard to know where to look. That is, until Vivian Nixon appears. With her gorgeous legs and movement that alternates between fluid and explosive, whenever Vivian’s onstage it’s hard not […]