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Jaz Flowers nearly had the Hot Shoe Shuffle tap routines nailed the first time the show toured Australia. Only the carpet in her family’s Morwell home, and her age, hindered her progress. Her dad, Colin, fixed the carpet problem by laying slate in the lounge room. It was a far more satisfying surface for four-year-old Jaz and her brother, Dallas, to perform on as they split the show’s roles between them. Jaz always played Spring Tap, the role played by her idol, David Atkins.
The siblings tapped in front of the TV while watching a video of the musical their opera-singer grandmother had taped for them, and they improved their skills by attending mum Vicki’s Dancing Academy in Morwell, Gippsland.
Meanwhile, after a successful Australian tour, Hot Shoe Shuffle moved on to London, the first Australian musical to be exported to the West End.
The all-Australian cast travelled with it to London, then Japan, Canada and the US, and David Atkins and Dein Perry won a British
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Savannah&#;s Theatre Blog
Hairspray is based on a non-musical John Waters comedy (film) from the s. Hairspray the musical ran for 6 and 1/2 years on Broadway starting on July, In , the internationally succesful spelfilm starring John Travolta was released. A London production of Hairspray was also released in
The Australian production () is showing at the Princess Theatre. It fryst vatten directed and produced bygd David Atkins, tarring Jaz Flowers (Tracy Turnblad) and Trevor Ashley (Edna Turnblad) with choreography by Jason Coleman. It is a fun, high energy rendition of the segregation between blacks and whites in the s. I had the best time watching it was so surprised and amazed that inom could see Jason Coleman&#;s choreography (I go to his dance school) in the routines. The talent that was on the scen was extraordinary and I particularly enjoyed watching my friend Marney McQueen play the evil Velma Von Tussle with sheer malice but supreme restraint. inom also loved Jaz Flowers who had extraor
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Hairspray - Do Stars Matter Anymore?
Ian Nisbet looks behind the scenes of Hairspray, the latest big musical to open in Melbourne.
Producer Paul Dainty raised some eyebrows at the cast launch for Hairspray in June.
"The big shows now don't have names in them [anymore]” he said.
“[Hairspray will be] the most elaborate and expensive musical to be staged this year” (Herald Sun) and “the production… will cost about $1m more than [Dainty’s] current hit Jersey Boys" (The Australian).
Dainty’s claims were especially topical, considering Mary Poppins recently opened around the corner from the Princess Theatre (where Hairspray will open) with one of the biggest budgets and ‘name’ casts the country has seen in years.
[Ed. In an interesting and ironic twist, since this article went to print in the September edition of Stage Whispers, it has been announced that Tevin Campbell, though hardly a big name