Stepping Out
From: Thursday, 6th September 2012
To: Saturday, 6 October 2012
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Synopsis
This is a warm and very funny play about the lives, laughs and loves of a group of women (and one man) attending a weekly tap-dance class in a dingy North London church hall. The dancing improves to such an extent that, by the time of the grand charity show performance, they have been transformed into triumphant tappers, worthy of any chorus line.
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Simon Cole - 13 September 2012
Richard Harris’ Stepping Out, is a safe choice as season opener at Salisbury Playhouse, and brimming full of broad comedy, pathos, dodgy dancing and a real feel-good finale, is a sure fire crowd pleaser.
Notably spawning a 1991 movie, staring Hollywood legend Liza Minnelli, relocating the action from a church hall in north London to the outer-suburbs of New York City, and a less successful stage musical version in the late 1990s, this production returns to the original concept, of a play with music.
One night a week seven ladies, and one man, attend Mavis Turner’s tap classes to escape their normal humdrum lives and to kick up their heels, rehearsing and working towards their own personal goals, and to the looming end of term charity show.
Where most of the characters are identifiably stereotypes, and in general the humour is broad, Stepping Out brilliantly blends huge belly laughs and slapstick in the dance class sequences,...
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Ann - 29 September 2012:
Fantastic production with really shining performers....
Creative
Richard Harris (Author)
Salisbury Playhouse (Producer)
Adam Penford (Director)
Andrew Wright (Choreographer)
Matthew Wright (Design)
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