Groovaloos founder tries his hand at a musical
Bradley Rapier, the high-energy Canuck who founded the ultra-successful hip-hop dance group The Groovaloos, is giving old-fashioned musicals a try. Rapier is choreographing an innovative, all-black Reprise production of “Once on This Island.” “At the first rehearsal I remember thinking, ‘Uh oh — what have I gotten myself into?’ This stuff is hard!”
It’s further proof that artistic director Jason Alexander wants to , which has puttered along for the last decade as a revival house for mostly obscure musicals.
“Island” opens tomorrow. Check out with Rapier and big-voiced chanteuse Ledisi.
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