Watch: I learned to tap dance with the star of Top Hat at the Edinburgh Playhouse

Attmore, who has kindly agreed to give me a tap tutorial between shows, is playing Jerry Travers, the iconic part originally ...
BroadwayWorld

Review: GAVIN LEE STEPS OUT WITH FRED ASTAIRE Is Toe-Tapping Fun at 54 Below

Unlock access to every one of the hundreds of articles published daily on BroadwayWorld by logging in with one click. A UK native, Gavin Lee is truly the embodiment of the old-time “song and dance” ...
BroadwayWorld

Eloise Kropp and Luke Hawkins performing a classic Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers tap dance at the Dancers For Good Benefit 2019. Photo by Shin Kurokawa.

From: BWW Review: DANCERS FOR GOOD 2019 Outdoes Itself Again! Last year, in 2018, the third annual Dancers For Good Benefit supporting the Actors Fund Dancers Resource in East Hampton was so ...
Variety

Tom Holland ‘Excited’ to Play Fred Astaire: ‘I’m Going to Dust Off the Old Tap Shoes’

Tom Holland is heading back into the dance studio to prepare for his role as Fred Astaire in an upcoming biopic about the legendary entertainer. “I’m going to dust off the old tap shoes and go back to ...
The New York Times

Fred Astaire

The old Hollywood spectacle — with its fantasias, tap numbers and heavenly music — lets us forget our troubles. Shall we dance? By Manohla Dargis He worked on the musical with Gene Kelly, with whom ...
Deadline.com

Peter Bart: Today’s Movie Musicals Are Wicked Successful But A Far Cry From The Sunnier Settings Of Hollywood’s Golden Age Hits

Many of us survived the Covid days by rediscovering old MGM musicals, humming tunes from Singing In the Rain or doing a Fred Astaire tap from Top Hat. So if they represented islands of good cheer, let ...
Yahoo

Fred Astaire Biopic Gets an Update From Tom Holland

During a recent appearance at the Critics Choice Association press conference, Spider-Man: No Way Home star Tom Holland has finally shared an update about the current status of Sony Pictures’ untitled ...
WBAL

Tom Holland “excited” to “dust off off the old tap shoes” to play Fred Astaire

Tom Holland is “excited” about his role as Fred Astaire in an upcoming biopic about the film legend, but he admits he’ll have to brush up on his dancing skills. “I’m quite a good tap dancer,” Holland ...