From SignonSanDiego.com - 2/29/08
Dancing in the Dark
The Old Globe will premiere its musical "Dancing in the Dark"
(starring Scott Bakula!), adapted from the classic MGM movie “The Band Wagon."
Tickets on sale now.
By: Keli Dailey
With a recent musical success launching from San Diego and into
the orbit of the Great White Way this March (John Waters' "Cry Baby," which
premiered at the La Jolla Playhouse the end of 2007), it's hard not to cross our
fingers and hope another local theater can follow on its heels to New York.
"Dancing in the Dark" is the Old Globe Theater's latest attempt to midwife a
show for Broadway.
Starring acting Everyman Scott Bakula (who will forever be remembered as the
time traveler in "Quantum Leap." May that show live forever in syndication. And
if it's canceled let's go back in time, to 1989 when it first aired, and watch
his lovable "Quantum" antics again. Or catch him on "Star Trek: Enterprise"
reruns). Bakula turns out to have dancing and theater chops, and stars as a
fading Hollywood star who has a last chance at theatrical redemption with an
unusual cast of performers.
The MGM classic, "The Band Wagon," was resurfaced and smoothed into more of a
story according to playwright Douglas Carter Beane, who currently has a show he
wrote ("As Bees in Honey Drown") at Scripps Ranch Theatre.
Expect to see a musical with Bakula appearing more Bing Crosby than Fred Astaire,
with a lively young ensemble supporting him, and some high-energy choreography
(see excerpts of "Dancing"s Louisiana hayride here) by Warren Carlyle (who
worked on the Broadway Mel Brooks' high-goose-stepping "The Producers," and made
a convincing dancer out of Ferris Bueller, err, Matthew Broderick).
Broadway (hopefully) here the show comes! Check it out before the cast skips
away to stardom.
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