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| Footloose The Musical, presented by Berklee's Musical Theater Club Berklee's Musical Theater Club presents Footloose: The Musical, based on the hit 1984 movie that made Kevin Bacon a star and featured chart-topping songs including "Let's Hear it for the Boy, " "Almost Paradise, " "Holding Out for a Hero, " and the title track. The Musical Theater Club is presenting the stage adaptation of Footloose for the first time, having also staged successful productions of Hairspray and Rent in recent years. Footloose: The Musical takes place Thursday, November 21 and Friday, November 22, 7:00 p.m., at the Berklee Performance Center (BPC), 136 Massachusetts Avenue, Boston, MA. Students leading the 22-member cast and 13-piece pit orchestra include director Tre'von Griffith, musical director Max Wolpert, and assistant musical directors Patrick Hoagland and Jake Ohlbaum. "Footloose was chosen this year because it is an upbeat pop musical that dives into the great '80's music that we all love, " said Sydney Dorin, president of Berklee's Musical Theater Club. "The audience won't be able to resist getting up and dancing!" The Musical Theater Club has 200 members each year, with more than 100 students currently working on four different upcoming productions. Footloose: The Musical was originally produced on Broadway in 1998 and nominated for four Tony Awards the following year, including Best Original Score for music by Berklee alumnus Tom Snow. Snow was also nominated for a Grammy Award for the Footloose Cast Album, and an Academy Award for Best Song from a Motion Picture ("Let's Hear it for the Boy"). Berklee College of Music was founded on the revolutionary principle that the best way to prepare students for careers in music is through the study and practice of contemporary music. For more than 65 years, the college has evolved to reflect the state of the art of music and the music business, leading the way with the world's first baccalaureate studies in jazz, rock, electric guitar, film scoring, songwriting, turntables, electronic production, and more than a dozen other genres and fields of study. Berklee serves distance learners worldwide through its award-winning online extension school, Berklee Online. The college's national after school music program for underserved teens, the Berklee City Music Network, is in 30 cities and counting. A new campus in Spain, Berklee in Valencia, began hosting the college's first graduate programs in the fall of 2012. With a diverse and talented student body representing nearly 100 countries, and alumni and faculty that have collectively won more than 270 Grammys and Latin Grammys, Berklee is the world's premier learning lab for the music of today—and tomorrow. write your comments about the article :: © 2013 Jazz News :: home page |