- Description
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The Tap Dance Kid / Hinton Battle [theatrical performance]
- Title
- The Tap Dance Kid [Theatrical Performance]
- Performers
- Battle, Hinton
- Weeks, Alan
- Ribiero, Alfonso
- Glover, Savion
- Tate, Jimmy
- Fleming, Eugene
- Published/Created
- 1983-12-21
- Genre
- Theatrical Performance
- Venue
- Broadhurst Theater
- Abstract
- A musical in two acts, 15 scenes. Book by Charles Blackwell. Based on the novel "Nobody's Family is going to Change" by Louise Fitzhugh. Music by Henry Kruger. Lyrics by Robert Lorick. Directed by Vivian Matalon. Dances and musical staging by Danny Daniels. Opened 21 December 1983 at the Broadhurst Theatre, moved 27 March 1984 to the Minskoff Theatre and closed 11 March 1985 after 669 performances.
Starring Alfonso Ribiero, Hattie Winston, Barbara Montgomery, Martine Allared, Jackie Lowe, Hinton Battle, Allen Weeks
Broadhurst Theatre 12/21/1983-3/11/1984
Minskoff Theatre 3/27/1984-8/`1/1985
Directed by Vivian Matalon; Musical Staging and Dances by Danny Daniels; Assoc. Chor D.J. Giagni
Hinton Battle, Dipsey
Alan Weeks, Daddy Bates
Alphonso Ribeiro, Willie
Savion Glover replaces Alfonso Ribeiro in the role of Willie. Later Jimmy Tate replaces Glover. Set in the present time, Roosevelt Island and New York City.
Hinton Battle, Tony Award, Best Featured Actor in a Musical
"Mr. Battle adds fireworks whenever he can...he can perform so many tap variations that the sound of his feet becomes a percussion symphony. He is also a master of breathtaking scissor kicks and delicate ballet leaps." (Rich)
Broadway musical about an eight-year old boy with the Broadway dream of being a tap dancer. Based on a film that featured Charles "Honi" Coles.
1984 Tony Award Best Musical
Hinton Battle, Tony Award for Best Featured Actor in a Musical
Danny Daniels 1984 Tony Award Best Choreography
Vivian Matalone 1984 Tony Award Best Direction of a Musical
(Frank Rich, "Stage: a Boy and His Dreams in 'Tap Dance Kid'" New York Times Dec. 22, 1983, C11.) - Source
- Norton Anthology of Drama: Norton Anthology of Drama: Nineteenth Century to the Present (Vol. 2). W.W. Norton & Company (2009).
Last Updated: 12-16-2015