| Hundreds of Dancers to Be Part of Dancing at the Crossroads ...
The day-long event, entitled Dancing at the Crossroads, will celebrate the arrival of summer and will feature hundreds of professional dancers. Over 30 dance companies including 200 dancers will offer classic and contemporary ballet, hip hop, jazz, modern and tap. Crossroads will be emceed by a host of Broadway and dance stars, including Kate Shindle, Stephanie J. Block, Orion Duckstein, Rob Kleinendorst, Denis Jones, Judine Somerville and Karine Plantadit. Among the dance companies and Broadway shows scheduled to participate are Amy Hall, Angel Feliciano Movement Theatre, Art of Dance, Aszure Barton, AxisDanz, Ayodele Casele, Battleworks Dance Company, Chase Brock Experience, CorbinDances, C.Eule Dance, Dance China NY, Daniel Gwirtzman Dance Company, Dance Times Square, Elisa Monte Dance, Francesca Harper Project, Hartford City Ballet, Jennifer Muller/The Works, Keigwin + Company, Limn Dance Company, Miss Dance of the United States, Paul Taylor Dance Company, Performing Arts Center of Connecticut, Rhapsody-The Group, Ron Todorowski, Sara Joel, Thomas/Ortiz Dance, Timothy Bish, The United States Dance Team and Wes Veldink Movement as well as the casts of The Lion King and The Pirate Queen.
Colm Wilkinson takes Broadway across Canada
Colm Wilkinson, who starred in Les Miserables on Broadway and Jesus Christ Superstar in London's West End, is launching a cross-Canada tour. Wilkinson, originally from Ireland, will kick off the series of shows, called Broadway and Beyond, in Halifax on Oct. 6. They will feature Wilkinson's favourite songs from "the world of theatre and popular music," said a news release. The tour is being mounted by theatre impresario Garth Drabinsky. Wilkinson played Jean Valjean in the original London and Broadway productions of Les Miz and starred for 4 1/2 years in the Toronto production of Phantom of the Opera. He will premiere the tour at Ireland's National Concert Hall in Dublin on July 22. In addition to Halifax, the tour will stop in Charlottetown, St.
Kathy Nufer column: New London class helps shape author's latest book
In the first book, "Backstage Pass," selected as a top teen pick for 2006 by the New York Library, the lead character loses out on a dream role in a movie called "Wisconsin Girl," Wilcox said. In the second, newly released book, "The Hollywood Sisters: On Location," the sisters make their way from Los Angeles to Mexico and finally Wisconsin. The protagonist even gets interviewed by a Post-Crescent reporter. "I wanted to contrast Hollywood hype with the unflappable quality I associate with my Wisconsin friends," Wilcox said of including Wisconsin references. When DuVernay said he had an exceptional group of students willing to read the early draft, "that was music to my ears," Wilcox said. "They were the first eyes on it." And she welcomed what they had to say.
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