Choreography for Guys

Episode 14 - YouTube Fireside Chat - Choreography for Guys   Today we're talking choreo for guys on the YouTube Fireside Chat. The key is that it has to be character-driven. We've chosen a couple of specific numbers to talk about. How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=69WpCBLrdSQ Catch Me If You Can http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zayv01x1QLs http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gaLDyrun_Cc Grand Hotel http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zDc9ul70kyY Show Notes * Virginia Theatre Association Subscribe to The Theatrefolk Podcast in iTunes by CLICKING HERE. Episode Transcript Lindsay: Welcome to TFP, The Theatrefolk Podcast. I am Lindsay Price, resident playwright for Theatrefolk. Hello. I hope you're well. Thanks for listening. Today, it's another YouTube Fireside Chat with the one, the only, Craig Mason. But first, let's do some Theatrefolk news. Theatrefolk is going to have an information table at the Virginia Theatre Association Festival this weekend, Friday, October 23rd and Saturday, October 24th in Reston, Virginia. Catalogues, free resource information, and we’ll be handing out our play-tasting CD-ROM, which has sample pages from every one of our plays on it. That's right, every single one of our plays at your fingertips. How exciting! And what’s even more exciting is that there's going to be a guest at the Tfolk table, playwright Bradley Walton, who hails from the area, is going to be at the booth on Saturday the 24th with samples from his plays, The Absolutely Insidious and Utterly Terrifying Truth About Cat Hair, and two new ones, The Baloney, the Pickle, the Zombies, and Other Things I Hide From My Mother, and Storied. Drop by, say hi. Lastly, where, oh where can you find this podcast? We post new episodes every Wednesday at Theatrefolk.com and our Facebook page and Twitter. You can find us also on the Stitcher app, and you can subscribe to TFP on iTunes. All you have to do is search on the word “Theatrefolk.” Welcome to our YouTube Fireside Chat, where Craig and I snuggle up to the microphone and talk about musical numbers that you can find on YouTube. And today—very excited about today—today we are looking at choreo for guys. From a school perspective, it's usually harder to get guys to dance, and our three videos today are really great examples of character dancing. It's not about ballet or the box step. It's about, really, all you have to do is move in character. Wouldn't you say so? Craig: Yeah. Yeah. And these are three really great examples of men dancing, and… Lindsay: And looking really manly. [Laughs] You know? Craig: [Laughs] And being masculine and being true to their characters. There's nothing worse than when you come to a dance number and all of a sudden everyone’s running around moving like dancers rather than their characters. Lindsay: Well, I think we said this the last time we did this. There was Newsies, which is new on Broadway, and they showed that clip from the Tonys, and all of a sudden everyone looks like they had been to 12 years of dance training. Craig: Yeah, I mean, I find that stuff really… [Laughs] We're going to go off on a tangent here so early in podcast… Lindsay: Oh, my goodness. Craig: But I find that so bothersome. You're right. When everyone all of a sudden is like an amazing dancer—some characters can be slow. Some characters can be confused. Some characters can be more dominant. But in shows like that, when all of a sudden everyone is this amazing perfect dancer,