REVIEW: Stumbling BACKWARDS IN HIGH HEELS
by Amber Cassell
- Mar 3, 2010
It's about time there was a stage show about Ginger Rogers, the name that has become synonymous with dancing on the silver screen. Though her films, particularly those partnered with Fred Astaire have become iconic, most people tend to forget that she got her start and ultimately built her career treading the boards on the vaudeville circuit and on Broadway. Rogers was a lady of the stage, with a catalogue of standards attached to her name from the Gershwins, Jerome & Kern, and Irving Berlin just to name a few. If the biographies of Patsy Cline and Buddy Holly have the makings of a hit Broadway musical, surely a tribute to Ginger Rogers would glide right past them. Unfortunately, Backwards in High Heels is rather unfitting, possibly even embarrassing tribute to a one of America's greatest stage and screen legends.
Ginger Rogers Musical Goes Backwards in High Heels at ICT
by Don Grigware
- Mar 2, 2010
Legendary star Ginger Rogers is long overdue for a musical show in her honor. Overshadowed by dancing partner Fred Astaire, she was known to have said 'I did everything he did only backwards in high heels'. Thus, we have the basis for the title of this classy, snappy new musical at ICT which is an instant audience pleaser.
Thrill Me Extends Two Weeks with Dolginoff as New Star
by BWW News Desk
- Jun 15, 2005
Thrill Me: The Leopold and Loeb Story will extend its run at the York Theatre Company for 2 weeks, with composer/lyricist/bookwriter Stephen Dolginoff taking over the role of Nathan Leopold
Matt Bauer and Heath Calvert to Star in THRILL ME: The Leopold and Loeb Story
by BWW News Desk
- Apr 11, 2005
James Morgan, The York Theatre Company's Producing Artistic Director, today announced that Matt Bauer and Heath Calvert have been cast as the two infamous teen killers in the theatre's upcoming production of Stephen Dolginoff's Thrill Me: The Leopold & Loeb Story, directed by Michael Rupert.
