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Rosie O'Donnell
Show Has Got That Swing!,
Feb. 1
January 27, 2000
By
Randy Gener
Theatre.Com
NEW YORK – "The Rosie O'Donnell Show" jitterbugs Tuesday, Feb. 1 when the cast of Swing! performs the finale of the dance revue, "Swing, Brother, Swing"/"Sing, Sing, Sing"/"It Don't Mean a Thing (If It Ain't Got That Swing)" on the ABC daytime show. Please check local listings for times.
HOW DOES THIS AFFECT ME?: Fans of the Lindy Hop may want to boogie on down to their TV set that morning.
Click here to visit the Swing! website.
Directed and choreographed by Lynne Taylor Corbett, based on a concept by Paul Kelly, the show salutes the jitterbug renaissance. Swing! has a score that combines 1940s Big Band classics by the likes of Benny Goodman, Duke Ellington and Tommy Dorsey, with contemporary works.
Ann Hampton Callaway stars, along with Laura Benanti, Everett Bradley, Michael Gruber and the Gotham City Gates. In addition to many original songs, several of which are written by Callaway, Bradley and MacGill, the cast album features classic tunes such as "Boogie Woogie Bugle Boy," "Harlem Nocturne," "It Don't Mean a Thing (If It Ain't Got That Swing)," "Jumpin' at the Woodside," "Sing, Sing, Sing!," "Stompin' at the Savoy" and "Blues in the Night."
