Music Theatre of Connecticut Presents SUPERHEROES IN LOVE, A Virtual MTC Fundraiser Event
The event will take place on January 15th and 16th at 8:00pm. by BWW News Desk
Music Theatre of Connecticut, currently in its 34th MainStage Season, has announced Superheroes in Love! MTC invites audiences to tune in and watch as Broadway veterans Nicolas Dromard and Desirée Davar, put on a dazzling show full of familiar songs and marvelous dancing! The event will take place on January 15th and 16th at 8:00pm. All proceeds go to supporting MTC s upcoming programming as we look forward to a brighter tomorrow.
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Celebrating Hollywood’s Top Movie Musicals Of The 1950s.
By David Cohea, ReMIND Magazine
It was the decade of the American dream. World war and the Depression were fading in the rearview mirror. The future looked bright. The age of television was just dawning, but there was still something special about movies that kept theaters filled: singing and dancing and a good time for all, in Technicolor and VistaVision.
Hollywood movie musicals promised a vintage world of imagination, magic and toe-tapping pizzazz.
Sometimes there was polish to these movie musicals: tuxedoes and ball gowns, shiny shoes dancing on glittery floors. Other times they took us to distant places like Paris or the South Pacific, or into the golden past, be it a frontier farm out West, an old South riverboat floating down the Mississippi or a cab up Broadway in the Roaring ’20s.
Bill, 55, and Oti, 30, arrived at the studios for the spin-off show It Takes Two. Oti sensibly kept under an umbrella as the heavens opened, but Bill was keen to mirror the mood of the hit 1952 musical and the famous sequence by star Gene Kelly.
Kelly played silent movie star Don Lockwood, who declared himself ready for love in the song after a kiss from love interest Kathy Selden, played by Debbie Reynolds.
Kelly then went into the celebrated dance routine on the flooded pavements, twirling his umbrella, before being brought to a halt by the disapproving gaze of a policeman. The sequence has since been celebrated as one of the most iconic ever filmed.