Six Dance Lessons In Six Weeks
Thursday, May 03, 2007
Swing, tango, waltz, foxtrot, cha-cha, contemporary. Learning to dance is all the rage.
Lily Harrison (Nancye Hayes), a lady of a certian age, has retired to Florida and decided to expand her circle of interests by signing up for a course of dance lessons in her own home. When Michael Minetti (Todd McKenney), her dance instructor, arrives the sparks and banter fly as these two strong personalities clash. It doesn't look like they will make it to lesson two but an unlikely relationship develops between the prudish widow, whose husband was a baptist minister, and her cynical and equally lonely tutor. Michael knows all the dance moves, but perhaps lily can teach him a thing about life.
Richard Alfieri's poignant comedy has danced from new York's Broadway to London's West End and on to worldwide success. For the Australian tour, Ensemble Theatre and CDP has reunited to of musical theatre's most brilliant performers. Nancye Hayes, as Australian musical theatre icon, commenced her career in 1961 with My Fair Lady and shot to stardom in the title role of Sweet Charity in 1967. She went on to perform in dozens of stage shows including Annie, Chicago, Guys and Dolls, 42nd Street, Summer Rain and many more. Todd McKenney first came to notice in Song and Dance followed quickly by 42nd Street, Crazy For You, Singin' in the Rain and his multi award winning role of Peter Allen in the original Australian production of The Boy From Oz, and now of course as one of the judges on Channel 7's Dancing With The Stars.
With dance routines created by John O'Connell (Strictly Ballroom, Moulin Rouge, Shall We Dance?) Six Dance Lessons In Six Weeks will delight audiences with its honesty, tenderness and contagious joie de vivre.
"...warmly engaging and near impossible to resist" Sydney Morning Herald