Footloose The Musical Summary

Imagine a room full of people, tapping their feet, swaying back and forth to the sound of rock music on the speakers. Imagine them smiling as they throw their hands in the air. Now, imagine another room full of people, but not moving. They are all sitting, or standing. They talking to each other, but no one smiles. Which room do you want to be in? Well, the students of Bomont were not asked that question, they did not have a choice. In the movie Footloose, no on danced, or partied. All of these things were illegal, although that still did not stop them. The movie Footloose brought attention to immense topics such as rebellious behavior, religion, and speaking up for yourself and others.

The two versions of Footloose are similar in many ways, but they are also different enough to make a name for themselves and to be recognized as two different movies on their own. The storyline of the two films is the same with a lot of the main details staying identical to one another. Also, both have the same story that fans all enjoy, still the big city boy moving into the little town with a ban on dancing.

I got the opportunity to see the vibrant production of the musical Footloose at the Boulder Dinner Theater Show at BDT Stage, in Boulder, Colorado. I watched this 1980’s inspired production on July 7, 2016 at a night showing. The basic premise of Footloose follows the small farm town of Bomont that suffers tragic repercussions from a fatal car accident that ends up killing four teenagers in the community. The result of this incident causes the town to outlaw public dancing. This pushes a group of teenagers into challenging the city council to preserve the right for self expression and most importantly dancing within the city limits of Bomont.

In the book A Time to Dance by Padma Venkatraman, Veda is in a car crash and suffers a below-the-knee amputation of her right leg. She is a dancer who lives in India and is not going to stop just because of this roadblock. After she gets a new fake leg, Veda goes to a new dance school and doesn’t agree with the teaching approach. Worst of all, Veda’s mom doesn’t like Veda dancing from the start. With the support of her grandmother, Veda conquers challenges and realizes she is a stronger person than she originally thought.

Many tragic stories are extremely powerful and because their impact is strong, they are often presented solitarily. Harlem Duet (Djanet Sears, 1996) however combines two powerful strategies of stories. With the use of media performance text, Djanet Sears presents Billie’s personal tragedy of Othello and Billie resisting each other's thoughts, actions, and wants by the use soundscape of Martin Luther King’s speech, dialogue referencing to Oppositional Gaze, and the handkerchief to combine these two stories. The reader can identify the combination of these two stories in Harlem Duet by Martin Luther King’s speech playing in the background, which becomes a tragedy. Resistance comes forward with the assist of Martin Luther King’s speech as Othello denies that the two races are different, the dialogue and reference to oppositional gaze in which Othello expresses a very sexist and racist view between White and Black women because Othello informs Billie that White women are desirable because they are easier, which becomes the tragic insecurity for Billie, and resistance to Billie and Black woman. Additionally, the most important combination of tragedy is when Billie is going insane and resistance happens. She decides to curse the handkerchief and resist Othello and Mona’s love.

I walk to the base. Sand kicks up as I pound my feet in place. I stare at the pitcher, staring at me. Swing. I swing my bat hard. I miss it badly. “Strike One!” I hear as i try to focus. Only hit it if it’s perfect. I think to myself, taking a couple of practice swings. I step back up to the base and ready my feet again. A pound of sand puffs up. I look behind me at the crowd, there eyes staring at me. I look to my team, their eyes looking at me saying, We’re counting on you! I look back to the pitcher. I nod, the pitcher gets in position. You got this… BANG! I hit the ball so hard it goes flying across the field. “Run! Run!” I hear everyone in the crowd, and in the dugout, yell. I run as fast as I can. Dirt kicks up underneath my feet. First

                            The story of Footloose unravels in a small town called Bomont. From the very beginning, Bomont is depicted with sycamore trees, dirt roads, rustic gathering places, and a handful of cowboy boots. This imagery works to form a setting where the plot could realistically occur. For instance, if this story were to take place in a big city where the people and ideas are so diverse, one tragic incident would not have purveyed the way it did in Bomont. However, because the town is so isolated from other communities, bad news travels fast. After the death of five highschool students, dancing and partying is banned. The people unite to make this law, but in a big city this incident would not have the same effect. One devastating moment, one heartbreaking accident and the whole town grieves together. Without the imagery of a town where one family's sorrow reaches each individual, the chain of events would not have taken place.

At first Miracle was hesitant to agree to lessons because she was afraid Gigi would be mad because she does not want Miracle to dance, but instead Miracle and Opal agreed to keep the lessons a secret from Gigi. When Miracle was walking home from her dance lessons she would think that a giant eraser was chasing her erasing all that she had learned from the lesson she had just been to. That is why girls in her class would make fun of Miracle. She could never remember the steps to the dances, until the night of Miracle’s thirteenth birthday. “I felt so moved, I rose up off the bed...and I danced. And for the first time I understood what Susan had always told me. She said I needed to feel the music, feel the pulse inside me, speak it with my body.

The musical Hamilton took the world by storm when it was performed in 2015 on stage at the Richard Rogers theater in New York City. I had heard about it many times from my friends and I had been to many musicals, but I didn’t really have enough interest to check it out. All that changed when I saw Lin-Manuel Miranda and the entire broadway cast perform at the 2015 Grammy awards in March. After seeing the highly engaging and energetic cast singing and dancing about one of the lesser known founding fathers I thought, “Hey! This looks cool.” Now eight months later I have memorized every song and line of the entire musical. One of the many amazing things about Hamilton is that it’s all about a man who literally started from the bottom and fought his way to the top.

Leonard Bernstein is a composer, conductor, educator, and humantarian. He also leads world class orchestras.

On April 20th, 21st at 7 p.m. and the 22nd at 2 and 7 p.m. Oswego East High school present Footloose the Musical. It starred Ren McCormack as Mitchell Crispi and Ariel Moore as McKenna Kreiling. It starred my other characters including, Willard as Alec Ludacka, Rusty as Ally Filicicchia, Urleen as Vera Mehnert, Ethel as Miranda Johanson, Reverend Shaw as Christian Mack. The musical was based in the small town of Bomont in 1988. Ren McCormack and his mother Ethel move from Chicago to Bomont after his father left them. Ren expecting a nice family community but, experience something way different. Ren finds himself constantly in trouble with other teens, the school, a new job and even the law. Although, through a battle of Ren trying to convince

When a younger sultry Israeli dancer, KAHIL SHIMON, moves into Warren’s apartment building Warren immediately becomes obsessed with the mysterious Kahil. From his window, Warren begins watching her. He even follows her. Kahil wants to be a contemporary dancer. She strikes up a friendship with Warren. Kahil notices Warren spying on her and tends to tease him.

The ballet was about a beautiful young girl who lost her mom at a young age then her father remarried then also loosing this wife but was left with his ex wife two daughters. These two daughters bully his first daughter and made her feel like she had nuthen in life. Then in the first act the

It seems these days, a lot of TV networks have been doing musicals. Some TV shows have even done musical episodes as part of their seasons. I know for a fact that NBC has six of them to their name. Four of being the Wizard of OZ, Sound of Music, Grease and Peter Pan. The Sound of Music had Carrie Underwood in one of the parts. As for the TV shows, that has done musical episodes. Once Upon a Time and the remake of the TV series, the Flash have each done one. The Once Upon a Time episode was also a wedding episode. Now ABC wants to have a crack at it with a musical version of Dirty Dancing that aired May 24th at 8pm.

I agree with you when saying that in both we are seven and the singing dance both main characters see life in optimism. The young girl in “We are Seven” in most people's mind would be upset about the death of her siblings but instead treats them as they were still present. Everyone has different perspectives of death and the young girl didn't let it affect her life. In “The Singing Dame” the old lady has many reasons why she should be sad but instead is very joyful with her life. While the Lord is jealous in how even if he is full with riches he isn't able to contain the happiness that the old dame js capable of achieving.