TOO DARN FOSSE, Zach Theatre Performing Arts Students, April 14 - May 5, 2013

(Zach Theatre, S. Lamar at Riverside (parking on Riverside and on Toomey Rd, one block south),

presents

Too Darn Fosse

A Musical Revue

Direction and Choreography by: Jennifer Young Mahlstedt
Guest Choreography by: Robin Lewis
Musical Direction: Ammon Taylor
April 14, 21, 28 and May 5 on ZACH’s Kleberg stage

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ZACH’s Pre-Professional School is proud present Too Darn Fosse! highlighting the famous choreographer, Bob Fosse. Students will be performing numbers in the distinct style of Fosse-dancing, singing and acting his most credited musicals including DAMN YANKEES, KISS ME KATE, CABARET, THE PAJAMA GAME, BIG DEAL and CHICAGO.

Tickets: zachtheatre.org or (512) 476-0541 X1

$10.00 Adults $8.00 Youth

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Upcoming: Hairspray, Zach Theatre, June 16 - August 28

Found on-line:

Hairspray

June 16 - August 28

Kleberg Stage

Book by MARK O'DONNELL & THOMAS MEEHAN | Music by MARC SHAIMAN | Lyrics by MARC SHAIMAN & SCOTT WHITTMAN | Based on the 1988 JOHN WATERS film | Directed by DAVE STEAKLEY | Musical Direction by ALLEN ROBERTSON | Choreography by ROBIN LEWIS

ZACH's GLBT Hairspray Wilde Party is July 7th.

Move over Baltimore! Austin is the new home for Hairspray -- the soultastic, hair hoppin’, dance-til-you-drop musical! Big girl Tracy Turnblad has big ideas about teasin’ to stratospheric hairdo heights while dancing on the Corny Collins TV record hop countdown, and instigating a change that’s gonna come. When this equality cutie starts back-combing and bee-bopping across the racial divide, the bigots can’t stop the beat. John Waters’ campy film inspiration and ZACH Artistic Director Dave Steakley are a match made in ozone-depleting, the higher-the-hair-the-closer-to-God, Beehive heaven!

The Drowsy Chaperone, Zach Theatre, June 24 - August 1

When I got home, still bubbling from Zach's The Drowsy Chaperone, I was ready to write, "Run, don't walk, to the Zach box office to get your first set of tickets for this sparkling evening of music, comedy and light-hearted fooling, a clever reincarnation of Broadway at its wonderful beginnings."

That's hyperbole, of course. Because you don't need to run anywhere. You just tap zachtheatre.org into your browser, click a couple of times and give them your payment details.

I must have been hearing Walter Winchell or Hedda Hopper in my head, even though I'm far too young ever to have listened to the Broadway gossip on a crystal radio set or on a cabinet-sized Philco in the living room. Though I can remember, just barely, the advent of the first color television broadcasts.

The Drowsy Chaperone is a zinger because Lambert, Morrison, Martin and McKellar lovingly spoof those energetic, naive and amazing beginnings of what became American musical theatre, admired across the world, while giving us a contemporary moderator and chorus -- in the Greek sense. Martin Burke as the anonymous Man in the Chair hosts us for an evening alone in his apartment with LP recordings of that mythical 1928 musical.

Read more at AustinLiveTheatre.com . . . .

Upcoming: That Jazz!, A Tribute to Bob Fosse, Tex-Arts Youth Production, January 16-17

Tex-Arts presents

That Jazz!
A Celebration of Bob Fosse

a Tex-Arts Youth Production
Saturday, January 16 at noon and 3 p.m.
Sunday,January 17 aT 2 P.M. and 5 p.m.

A musical tribute to the enduring legacy of choreographer Bob Fosse comes to life at Texarts! 30 Texarts Youth directed by Broadway’s Fosse dancers Robin Lewis and Vince Sandoval will dazzle you in this memorable production of this legendary showman.

The show features several rarely seen dance numbers from Fosse's early work, as well as such standards as "Steam Heat" from The Pajama Game (1954), "Mein Herr" from the film Cabaret (1972), and "I Want to Be a Dancing Man" from Dancin' (1977). That Jazz! is a showstopping tribute to one of the past century's most influential forces on Broadway. This is a Texarts Youth Academy Production.

Tickets: $15 Info Phone: 512-852-9079
TexARTS Kam and James Morris Theater
2300 Lohmans Spur Austin, Tx 78734 Full map and directions

Tex-Arts' Robin Lewis To Teach Part-Time at Texas State

From the San Marcos Mercury, May 26:

Broadway Veteran Robin Lewis Joins Musical Theatre program
Submitted by Brad Rollins on Tuesday, 26 May 2009
FROM TEXAS STATE NEWS SERVICE/JAYME BLASCHKE

Broadway veteran Robin Lewis will join the Musical Theatre Program at Texas State University as a per-course faculty member teaching musical theatre dance.

Lewis joins recent faculty additions Kailtin Hopkins and Jim Price in bolstering the Musical Theatre Program.

“In assembling the musical theatre faculty, I think Robin is the perfect complement to Kaitlin and Jim,” said Texas State Department of Theatre and Dance Chair John Fleming. “As a dancer and dance captain, Robin has worked with some of Broadway’s most acclaimed directors and choreographers (Susan Stroman, Ann Reinking). The addition of Robin to our program means that our students will receive top-level musical theatre dance training.”

Lewis is a veteran of several Broadway stage productions including Disney’s Beauty & the Beast (dance captain), A Christmas Carol at Madison Square Garden (dance captain) and Fosse (including the film version) with Ben Vereen and Ann Reinking. Additional credits include the Off-Broadway production of The Green Heart as well as the first national Broadway touring production of Mel Brooks’ The Producers starring Jason Alexander and Martin Short.

[ . . . . ] In addition to his time on the boards, Lewis has choreographed for the Oklahoma Lyric Opera, Zachary Scott Theater Center (for which he’s received multiple B. Iden Payne and Austin Critics’ Circle Awards), Zilker Productions and TexARTS (Critics Circle Award-winner). Lewis was also voted “Best in Austin” for his choreography and “Keeper of the Fosse Flame” by the Austin Chronicle.

Click for full text at SanMarcosMercury.com . . . .