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DETAILS CRITICOPIA BROADWAY
| Show Title: |
Come Fly Away |
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| Total Rating: |
***1/2 |
| Previews: |
March 1, 2010 |
| Opened: |
March 25, 2010 |
| Ended: |
open run |
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| Country: |
USA |
| State: |
New York |
| City: |
New York |
| Theater Type: |
Broadway |
| Company / Producers: |
James L. Nederlander, Nicholas Howey, W.A.T. Ltd., Terry Allen Kramer, Patrick Catullo/Jon B. Platt, Jerry Frankel, Ronald Frankel/Marc Frankel, Roy Furman, Allan S. Gordon/Elan McAllister, Jam Theatricals, Stewart F. Lane/Bonnie Comley, Margo Lion/Daryl Roth, Hal Luftig/Yashuhiro Kawana, Pittsburgh CLO/SFD, Spark Productions, The Weinstein Co., & Barry & Fran Weissler by arrangement w/ The Frank Sinatra Family & Frank Sinatra Enterprises. |
| Theater: |
Marquis Theater |
| Theater Address: |
1535 Broadway |
| Phone: |
212-307-4100 |
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| Genre: |
Dance Musical |
| Author: |
Songs: hits of Frank Sinatra |
| Director: |
Twyla Tharp |
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| Review: |
Come Fly Away, Twyla Tharp’s ballet-based new dance creation, with elements of ballroom, modern, jazz and acrobatics, is clean, precise and full of beautiful, fully-stretched, strong, limber bodies that take Adagio to its adagioesque limits. Tharp has access to the world’s best dancers, and here are a bunch of them. With grace, fluidity and a bit of Cirque, each dancer is superb. Especially outstanding are Charlie Neshyba Hodges with the body of a slinky and a comic flair, and the captivating Karine Plantadit. The theme in each section, like in Flamenco, is sexual attraction. Mostly performed to Frank Sinatra’s singing which is brilliantly integrated with the super live orchestra conducted with exquisite timing by Russ Kassoff, with interspersed vocals by Hilary Gardner and Rosena M. Hill, on a modern cocktail lounge set by James Youmans, with subtle, special-for-dance lighting by Donald Holder and sexy, flowing costumes by Katherine Roth, Tharp’s innovative, intricate choreography is entrancing, exciting, and her dancers are fabulous. It’s a wonderful artistic entertainment in the universal language of dance.
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| Cast: |
Keith Roberts, John Selya, Alexander Brady, Rika Okamoto, Karine Plantadit, Matthew Dibble, Holley Farmer, Laura Mead and Charlie Neshyba-Hodges. |
| Technical: |
Lighting: Donald Holder; Set: James Youmans; Costumes: Katherine Roth; Music Supervisor: Patrick Vaccariello; Sound: Peter McBoyle; Orchest: Dave Pierce & Don Sebesky. Casting: Stuart Howard. |
| Critic: |
Richmond Shepard |
| Date Reviewed: |
April 2010 |
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