Never Gonna Dance
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SHOW INFORMATION
Opened Dec 4, 2003
Closed Feb 15, 2004
WHAT IS IT ABOUT?
Never Gonna Dance is the new Broadway musical with music by Jerome Kern and book by Jeffrey Hatcher, directed by Michael Greif and choreographed by Jerry Mitchell. The production stars Noah Racey and Nancy Lemenager.
The show is based on the RKO motion picture Swing Time and a story by Erwin Gelsey. The show begins with John "Lucky" Garnett, a professional dancer, coming to New York in order to prove his worth to his fiancee's father by attempting to earn $25,000 by any means except dancing.
Inspired by the energy and rhythms of the city, he of course can't keep still, and goes on to dance his way through hilarious adventures with his fine new romance, the dance teacher, Penny Carroll.
The songs of Jerome Kern in Never Gonna Dance feature the lyrics of Dorothy Fields, Ira Gershwin, Oscar Hammerstein II, Johnny Mercer, Otto Harbach and Jimmy McHugh, and includes such well-known songs as "Pick Yourself Up," "The Way You Look Tonight," "The Waltz in Swingtime," "A Fine Romance," "Bojangles of Harlem," "Never Gonna Dance," "I Won't Dance," "I'm Old Fashioned," "Dearly Beloved" and "Who."
THEATER/VENUE INFORMATION:
235 W 44th St
New York, NY 10036
This large Broadway theater was opened in 1917 and named for the playwright George Broadhurst. This theater is unusual in that is suitable for straight plays as well as musicals. The sightlines are top-notch except from the extreme sides. The bes [...] Read More
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A team of seeming Broadway knowledgeables has adapted the goofy and glorious 1936 Fred Astaire-Ginger Rogers vehicle Swing Time into a flavorless bon-bon called Never Gonna Dance that only occasionally rises a notch or two above mediocrity. Credit where it's due: In an 11 o'clock ballroom number done to the show's title tune -- which Jerome Kern and Dorothy Fields dreamed up on an especially inspired day -- the proceedings are lifted off the ground much as Noah Racey (the nominal male lead) swings Nancy Lemenager (the nominal female lead) in mesmerizing, high and wide circles.
Racey and Lemenager are unarguably proficient as dancers, but their plight as subs for the incomparable Astaire and[...]