TIGHT END – from BROADWAY BARES 19: CLICK IT
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Every year, the hottest boys (and girls) of Broadway take to the stage in costumes as skimpy as they are sexy and put on a thoroughly modern yet good-old-fashioned burlesque review for AIDS charity Broadway Bares. |
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Talk about Fantasy Football… Daniel Robinson is the lead dancer, number 19. The song is LET IT ROCK by Kevin Rudolph.
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06/27/2010 at 6:13 pm
I just saw the Dallas Theatre Center’s “revisal” of the musical “It’s a Bird, It’s a Plane, It’s Superman.” If you get a chance, google the Dallas Theatre Center and the play name – the local press (Dallas Morning News, Dallas Observer, etc) have been following the behind the scenes on this one pretty closely and the behind the scenes story of the production is pretty interesting in and of itself.
The artistic director basically took the music from the original 60s Broadway show and hired comic writer/playwright/Big Love writer (and all around groovy guy) Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa to write a new book/story.
My partner is not a comic fan (although he indulges me – we took a side road trip to Metropolis Illinois last summer – we took a side trip to his favorite Lucille Ball’s hometown the previous road trip, but I digress) but is a huge musical fan, and both of us walked out really raving.
It was amazing to see families and teenage boys being in the audience of a musical – a local comic store had ad space in the program, too.
DC/Warner apparently blocked usage of certain characters, so new analogues were created. To any comic fan it was pretty obvious that Max was Lex Luthor, Sydney was Cat Grant, Court Jester was Prankster, Jack in the Box was Toyman (down to his alter ego’s name), Blackbird was Magpie, Jupiter James was Terra Man, Beppo was Bibbo, Tank Tanner was Steve Lombard, Cadabra and Kazam were Hocus and Pocus, Sombra the Scarlet Widow was the Spider Lady from the 40s serial, Dr. Sedgewick was Dr. Hamilton, Torchy was Jimmy Olsen, Emily was Lana)
The little nods to the comics were great – Stryker’s Island, Lois’s middle name and mentions of General Lane, mentions of Brainiac, the Fortress, the different kinds of Kryptonite, the destruction of Krypton opening. Seting it in 1939 was great, as were the costumes (the use of the original Superman costume was inspired).
It was also really cool to have a culturally diverse cast and not realize that no one really cared (Lois is played by an African American actress and the entire cast is diverse).
The actress playing Sydney was especially amazing. Matt Cavanaugh as Superman was wonderful. And hot.
We plan on going back – cheap seat are only $15, so we are going to see it while we can. If you are in the Dallas area, go, and if not, hope it goes to Broadway or a national tour. Me, I’m going to try to find pictures of the villain costumes and have a friend customize some JLUs for me