Chris Cantell Discusses Entertainment: Christmas Carol tapping this year Zuzana Moravcova

A tap dance version of a Christmas carol theme suggested by the Charles Dickens in 1843 is going to entertain Broadway's audience.Anacrucis Modern Tap Dance, a teaching and producing enterprise, is now for the seventh time going to perform "A Tap Dance Christmas Carol : An Original Tap Dance Musical" this weekend at Broadway Performance Hall.Tap dance, formerly called jazz dance, was develped in the United States during the nineteenth century and is popular nowadays in many parts of the world. This lively, rhythmic tapping makes the performer not just a dancer, but also a percussive musician. Tap was the main performance dance of Broadway around 1950.The choreography was made by Johnson and Peters, who dance together as well as run their enterprises."For years we were doing tap dancing with no narrative or plot or story for our Christmas show but decided we wanted to do something different. There is very little that is not tap dance, with songs and live music added," they said. The tale is told in "the language of tap dance, music, song and poetry." It also features Peters dancing the three ghosts and the company co-director Cheryl Johnson playing Ebenizia Scrooge, a merciless businesswoman. The performance features also Tiny Tim's snappy ukulele solo celebrating his reccuperation from lameness. All the tap dances and ghosts are accompanied by a live jazz combo.

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