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Carol Perkins: Hip-Hop Nutcracker Previous Column: The Window By Carol Perkins "You're going to see WHAT?" Guy asked when I laid out my plans for the week. I repeated my agenda. "The Hip-Hop Nutcracker. It's at the Brown Theater in Louisville. You want to go?" Of course, I knew he didn't, and he would have been miserable. I knew this show would differ from my usual taste in plays/concerts, but I needed to have an adventure. Having never seen the original Nutcracker, I assumed this would follow the same storyline, but instead of ballet and orchestra music, it would feature hip-hop and break-dancing, and I was half right. We saw some break dancing, but much more modern dance with fantastic gymnasts. The show started with Kurtis Blow, a rapper, who brought the sold-out crowd to our feet. The audience rapped along with him. I turned to my friend and said, "He must be famous." She'd never heard of him, either. Even though we didn't know the words, we stood, swayed, and clapped to the beat. This was going to be fun! We were captivated when the dancers took the stage and the music from the original score, with its modern twist of a hip-hop beat, began playing. We noticed how each movement in the routines matched almost every beat of the music. I was exhausted from watching them. At the end of the performance, the crowd stood and cheered for what seemed like forever. What a surprising night. Three chartered buses, which had brought students and adults to the performance, were parked in front of the Brown Theater. I thought about how much our middle/high school students would have loved this night. When I was teaching and took groups to see plays, they were always grateful. I remember one student who was so happy after seeing a play at the Derby Dinner Playhouse she cried. On this cold night, with the temperature hovering around 27 degrees, three of us "older" ladies had a hip-hopping night. I'm so glad I sprang out of my box that I think I'll write a rap song. You can contact Carol at carolperkins06@gmail.com. This story was posted on 2024-12-07 08:18:55
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