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Stage Door News
The new musical FLASHDANCE, which was scheduled to play a pre-Broadway engagement in Toronto this summer, has announced a postponement of the Toronto engagement. The show's producers were planning on moving the production directly from Toronto to Broadway. Due to scheduling issues, the Broadway production has been postponed until spring 2013.
“We remain excited about our production of FLASHDANCE with Sergio Trujillo at the helm as director and choreographer but unfortunately we'll need to postpone it to Toronto audiences until the following season." said producer Marc Routh.
Flashdance – The Musical, the stage adaptation of the 1983 pop-filled hit film, premiered in London in 2010. Its book, songs and staging will be reworked for North America, where it will play more than 25 markets. Additional cities and tour casting will be announced in the coming months.
Directed and choreographed by Trujillo (Jersey Boys, Memphis, The Addams Family), Flashdance features a book by Robert Cary and Tom Hedley (co-writer of the original screenplay with Joe Eszterhas), music by Robbie Roth and lyrics by Robert Cary and Robbie Roth.
Here's how producers previously characterized the story: "Flashdance tells the unforgettable story of Alex Owens, a working-class girl from Pittsburgh striving to make her dreams of becoming a professional dancer a reality. She works by day at a steel mill, where she catches the eye of her boss Nick Hurley. By night she works as a 'flashdancer' at a local bar but longs to become a student at the prestigious Shipley Dance Academy."
The Paramount Pictures film had an international gross of $150 million. The Grammy Award-winning soundtrack featured the hits "Gloria," "Manhunt," "Maniac," "I Love Rock 'n' Roll" and the Academy Award-winning theme "Flashdance - What a Feeling." All of these songs are included in Flashdance – The Musical, plus more than ten new songs penned by Cary and Roth.
The national tour of Flashdance is produced by NETworks Presentations LLC, Steven Baruch, Tom Viertel, Marc Routh, Richard Frankel, Christopher Malcolm, David Ian Productions and Transamerica.
With information from Kenneth Jones for www.playboll.com.
2012-05-09
Toronto: Toronto engagement of “Flashdance” postponed until spring 2013