Musicals Taught Me Everything I Know

This week we chat with Emma-June Curik about which of life's truths can be gleaned from the dance-revolution musical - Footloose!

"There have certainly been worse musicals on Broadway than ''Footloose,'' the $6.5 million adaptation of the hit 1984 movie that starred Kevin Bacon. Yet it's hard to think of one so totally unaffecting. The music in the show is loud, for sure, with a propulsive beat designed to set toes tapping and fingers snapping. The score is peppered with flashy dance tunes from the movie that have boomed over disco floors for years. And there's a young, eager, hard-working cast of dancers, somersaulting, back-flipping, wriggling to beat the band. But as directed by Walter Bobbie and choreographed by A. C. Ciulla, this production has a blurry, removed feeling, like a Xerox of a Polaroid. The show's creators seem to be aiming at teen-agers whose parents won't let them see the raunchier ''Rent,'' with a generation-crossing family entertainment that absolutely no one could object to." - BEN BRANTLEY

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Footloose_(musical)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Footloose_(1984_film)

Kenny Loggins

Footloose

Footloose (1984) - IMDb

Footloose (2011) - IMDb

https://music.apple.com/us/album/footloose-the-musical-original-broadway-cast-recording/1308552484

https://open.spotify.com/album/479UvnNP6IJx44wd5XJK0M

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