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Flashdance Broadway Musical

February 7, 2012 by · Comments Off on Flashdance Broadway Musical 

Flashdance Broadway Musical, ‘Flashdance’ returns as Broadway musical; national tour planned
Flashdance wasn’t close to being the greatest romantic drama of the ’80s, but it was saved by the energy of the music, the universe appeal of the underdog story, and the oh-so-lovable/she’s so sexy factor of Jennifer Beals and her cuddly castmates.

Can Flashdance – The Musical possibly recreate the magic? We’ll find out later this year. Entertainment Weekly says a stage adaptation of the 1983 is set to begin on Broadway in fall 2012, with a national tour set to begin in January 2013 (in Pittsburgh, natch, where the film was set.) A 25-city tour is planned. (No words on whether Tampa Bay will make the cut.)

“The musical, which tells the story of an aspiring ballet dancer who works at a steel mill by day and a ‘flashdancer’ at a local bar by night, will include songs from the film’s famous soundtrack, including Gloria, Maniac, and the Academy Award-winning Flashdance – What A Feeling,” EW says. (Oh god, I hope they don’t re-create the awkward ice-skating scene. I leave the room for that every time. But please, leave in the lobster dinner part. Wowsers.)

Tony Danza Date Of Birth

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Tony Danza Date Of Birth, Tony Danza (born April 21, 1951) is an American actor best known for starring on the TV series Taxi and Who’s the Boss?, for which he was nominated for an Emmy Award and four Golden Globe Awards. In 1998, Danza won the People’s Choice Award for Favorite Male Performer in a New Television Series for his work on the 1997 sitcom The Tony Danza Show.

Danza was born as Antonio Salvatore Iadanza in Brooklyn, New York, to parents Anne Cammisa (1925-1993) and Matty Iadanza (1920-1983), both of whom died from cancer. Matty Iadanza worked as a garbage man in Brooklyn.

Danza’s family was of Italian ancestry. He has a younger brother, Matty Jr. (born 1954), a Los Angeles restaurant owner. When Danza was 14, he and his family relocated to Malverne, New York on Long Island. Danza attended Malverne High School, graduating in 1968. In the first episode of his show “Teach: Tony Danza”, Danza describes himself as a “bad student” in high school. Danza earned a bachelor’s degree in history in 1972 from the University of Dubuque, which he attended on a wrestling scholarship. It was during his first year of college that he got the Robert Crumb Keep on Truckin’ tattoo on his upper right arm.

In a 1985 interview in Us Weekly magazine, Danza remarked, “I was playing pool with a guy who had all these tattoos, and I wanted to be friends.” Danza sports a “Keep Punching” boxing gloves tattoo on his right shoulder. In college, Danza met and married his first wife, Rhonda Yeoman, with whom he had two children. From 1976 to 1979, Danza was a professional boxer with a 9-3 record, with all of his fights, wins and losses, ending by knockout.

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