New York, Radio City Style
Dance sensation Derek Hough and Broadway star Laura Benanti join The Rockettes as the headline attraction of a new show headed to Radio City Music Hall in 2015. The New York Spring Spectacular is a celebration of The Big Apple during the season of renewal and rejuvenation, honoring the places and people which give the city its unique springtime magic. This strictly limited engagement, which opens in March, is under the stewardship of one of the starriest creative teams Broadway has seen in a long time, including Tony winners Warren Carlyle and Diane Paulus.
What to expect
Center stage of this "whirlwind adventure across New York City" will be the legendary, high-kicking Rockettes. The dance troupe, who have been a fixture of Radio City Music Hall since 1932, will lead the audience on a tour of the city, dancing their way from one iconic landmark to another, with all brand new show-stopping numbers. They'll be backed by a puppetry, dynamic stage design and lighting, all combining into a true entertainment extravaganza unlike anything Radio City has seen before!
The Team
As if The Rockettes weren't enough, the creative team who have put this spectacular together is a headline act in its own right. The show is directed and choreographed by Warren Carlyle, fresh from helming the smash hit Broadway musical After Midnight, a 90-minute tour-de-force that was bursting from the seams with jitterbugs and Charlestons. After multiple previous nominations, it was finally the show which saw him awarded the Tony for Best Choreography. His past credits also include Chaplin and Hugh Jackman: Back on Broadway.
The show benefits from two co-creative directors, namely non traditional theatre mastermind Randy Weiner (The Box) and Diane Paulus, who will direct the Broadway transfer of Finding Neverland and won the Best Director Tony for her revival of Pippin in 2013. The writer is acclaimed playwright Joshua Harmon (Bad Jews).
Did You Know?
The Rockettes previous home in New York was the now demolished Roxy Theatre. During their tenure there, the girls were known as The Roxyettes.