Footloose

Synopsis

Footloose centres on city boy Ren who moves with his family to a small town in middle America where rock music and dancing are outlawed for religious reasons. Sparks fly when Ren and the minister's teenage daughter rebel.

Our Review:

9 February 2011

Kevin Bacon has apparently spent 25 years bribing DJs not to play Footloose at parties. He’s never quite been able to live down the legacy of his iconic role in the 1984 movie.

Implausibly but actually based on a real Midwest American town in the 1979, Footloose tells the story of a Chicago boy, Ren, who moves with his newly single mother to the little Bible-belt community of Bomont only to find the local reverend has had dancing banned.

Ren’s mission, from hereon in, is to overturn the rules and get the schoolkids jumping and jiving again.

It’s not a tale to tax the brain too heavily, but that’s not what Footloose is about. What it’s about is the dancing, and this energetic, highly-charged touring production scores on every possible level as far as the dancing goes.

With a thumping score performed by a driving pit band under musical director Julian Reeve, it races from song to song pausing only to change sets (cleverly designed by Morgan Large). The biggest impa...

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Sarnia - 13 February 2011:

Giovanni Spano (Willard) and Jodie Jacobs (Rusty) are outstanding. Very strong cast overall. High energy. Do not miss!...

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