Holidays, noisy style
I don’t know about you, but nothing puts me more in the holiday spirit than a little boy with a cane tap dancing.
Last night a couple of friends and I headed to the Broadway Performance Hall to see the Anacrusis Modern Tap Dance performance of “A Christmas Carol.” And yeah, that works exactly how it sounds–it’s the old story of Scrooge reworked into a series of tap numbers.
We wandered in a few minutes late (lychee martinis required finishing), and Ebenezia Scrooge was already tap dancing up a storm. Scrooge is played by Cheryl Johnson, and her co-choreographer Anthony Peters plays all of the ghosts. Once, memorably, he plays the ghost of Christmas Present in a suit with lights on it.
I find pretty much any display of tap dancing impressive, but I’d been promised a tap dancing Tiny Tim, so I settled in to wait. And sure enough, an adorable little boy with a cane limped out and danced away. It was worth the whole experience right there.
If you’re wondering, it plays this weekend and next weekend, and I don’t see why tickets wouldn’t still be available [$]. I certainly went for the Tiny Tim, but I stayed for the shiny costumes and the pretty dancing people. Those folks are good. My only wish was that I could have seen less of the professionals and more of their students. But aside from that, it was a good old tap dancin’ time.
