It’s the 90s — the 1590s— and Shakespeare parades around the hamlet followed by his entourage. At this stage of his career, Shakespeare is the shizzle! He’s even bigger than The Beatles — granted none of the Fab Four had yet been born. Everyone adores The Bard. Everyone except Nick Bottom, that is. Nick is…
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“Motown: The Musical” is an extraordinarily robust and rollicking spectacle
Get ready because summer’s here and the time is right for dancing in your seat! That’s right, Motown: The Musical, the record shattering Broadway smash, is in its final week at The Kimmel Center for the Performing Arts’ Academy of Music in Philadelphia. Based on the book, To Be Loved: The Music, The Magic, The…
“Dirty Dancing” has all the right moves!
The crowd was alive in the moment, cheering for the epic lines of dialogue and the iconic choreography with an impassioned zeal and unrestrained enthusiasm! Everyone was dancing and singing along to the magnificently resonant, goosebump-producing “(I’ve Had) The Time of My Life.” An extended standing ovation peppered by shout-outs of adulation was testament that…
Jennifer Mealani Jones returns to Philadelphia to help celebrate 30 years of “Dirty Dancing”
The fuse of a firework might be dipped in the same lacquer that gives a guitar its glorious shimmer under the stage lights, but it’s what’s inside the fuse that makes it sizzle. Similarly, Jennifer Mealani Jones is a striking young woman who has an incredible chemistry that blazes within her. She is a spellbinding…
