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Hot Tickets: 'Movin' Out' is still goin' steady
By JOHN FLEMING and SHARON KENNEDY WYNNE
Published February 9, 2006
Movin' Out has two big things going for it: Twyla Tharp's inventive choreography and a score of more than two dozen Billy Joel songs. Tharp (who is now working on a Bob Dylan dance musical) was the mastermind of the collaboration, suggesting the idea to Joel and fashioning the narrative framework for her ballet, which follows a group of friends from high school on Long Island in the 1960s through the Vietnam War and its aftermath.
Tharp assembled a company of terrific dancers for the Movin' Out tour, many of whom are still in the show from when it first played the Tampa Bay area a year ago. Brenda and Eddie, the "popular steadies" of Scenes from an Italian Restaurant, are performed by Laurie Kanyok, above, and Brendan King. Keith Roberts, who created the role of Tony on Broadway, has joined the tour. Singer-pianist Darren Holden and band perform Joel's music - probably better than Joel himself these days.
Movin' Out is in the middle of a seven-city Florida swing, with performances through Sunday at Van Wezel Performing Arts Hall, Sarasota. $55-$75. (941) 953-3368 or toll-free 1-800-826-9303; vanwezel.org. It opens Tuesday and runs through Feb. 19 at Tampa Bay Performing Arts Center, Tampa $35.50-$72.50. (813) 229-7827 or toll-free 1-800-955-1045; tbpac.org.
- JOHN FLEMING, Times performing arts critic
She smiles as she skewers
One of the more popular wits to come out of the reality show Last Comic Standing, Kathleen Madigan is also carving out a successful career in commentary.
Not Meet the Press kind of punditry, more like the kind needed on VH1's many clip shows (50 Greatest Celebrity Feuds, etc.) or in Us Weekly's Fashion Police feature. She's the go-to gal for likable annihilation of celebrities.
She performs at 7:30 p.m. Friday at the Tampa Bay Performing Arts Center, Tampa. Tickets are $25.50-$35.50. 813 229-7827 or www.tbpac.org
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Not many acts sell out five shows in one week at Ruth Eckerd Hall, but Larry the Cable Guy was able to "git 'er done."
The hugely popular comic has been a lightning rod for criticism that his humor is racist and gay-bashing. He just says he's stupid, and that's where the funny is.
He's self-deprecating ("I was reading the paper the other morning, 'cuz my neighbor got up late . . ." ) and happy to poke his favorite targets: "I have three words for PETA: chicken-fried steak."
A few single tickets $41.75 might be available for his shows at 7 p.m. Wednesday and at 7 and 9:30 p.m. 17-18. But the shows are listed as sold out. (727) 791-7400 or www.rutheckerdhall.com
- SHARON KENNEDY WYNNE, Times staff writer
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