Stepping Out
From: Tuesday, 4th May 2010
To: Saturday, 8 May 2010
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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.
Our Review:
4 May 2010
Richard Harris wrote Stepping Out more than 25 years ago and the show enjoyed a long run in London. The play has since become a staple of rep theatres up and down the land. It became a slightly unnecessary musical, directed again by Julia McKenzie, who helmed the original play. Bill Kenwright produced the film version where the story was shuffled off to Buffalo and starred Liza Minnelli. Now it is back on tour to celebrate the anniversary.
A dance class meets weekly as a mixed bunch of amateurs seek to tap their troubles away. Gradually we see improvements in their skills and also get to know more about the varied bunch of characters. Every member of the class has a story to tell as it becomes obvious that the weekly evening class is their form of therapy. For most of them the couple of hours in the church hall is a release and an escape from a less than fulfilling life.
Brain Capron is funny and convincing, as the token man, shy and ...
Cast
Anita Harris (Vera)
Brian Capron (Geoffrey)
Creative
Richard Harris (Author)
FMH Productions (in association with The Leatherhead Theatre and Henry Filloux-Bennett and Stephen Makin) (Producer)
Richard Baron (Director)
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