Flashdance - The Musical at The Kennedy Center

Flashdance - The Musical

The Kennedy Center
2700 F Street, NW Washington

"What a Feeling" it is. Thirty years after the film about a young welder with dreams of becoming a professional dancer hit the big screen, Flashdance -- The Musical brings the inspiring story to the stage. Featuring all the hit songs (including the Oscar-winning title track), plus 16 brand-new tunes, this high-energy production follows Alex, a "steel-town girl on a Saturday night" as she pursues her dance dreams. Just when it seems she's going to make it, a wrong-side-of-the-tracks romance with her boss threatens to derail her goals. This adaptation of the movie that taught women to rock leg warmers includes the Grammy-winning soundtrack smashes "Maniac," "Gloria," "Manhunt" and "I Love Rock 'n' Roll."

Thru - Jan 19, 2014

Price: $45-$150

Stage: Eisenhower Theater

Show Type: Musical

Running Time: 2 hours, 30 minutes with 1 intermission

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Washington Post - Recommended

"...The production also boasts a singing-dancing dynamo in Jillian Mueller as Alex, the daytime welder and nighttime dancer. Jennifer Beals was pensive and charismatic in the movie, but she had a dance double and she didn't have to sing. Mueller, on the other hand, belts big new numbers (she has a lively pop voice) and flings herself into dance routines with all the abandon you'd expect of a character identified in one of the movie's famous montages as a "Maniac." That song is reprised here, sung by other club dancers as Mueller works out and then hits the stage for one of Alex's not-quite-stripper routines."

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- Nelson Pressley

DC Theater Arts - Highly Recommended

"...In the Flashdance smackdown between fresh new show tunes and nostalgia-laden 1980s soundtrack hits, the title decision at The Kennedy Center isn't even close. Showtunes lose the match, although the theater-goer emerges the winner."

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- John Harding

Washingtonian - Recommended

"...The Kennedy Center has needed an injection of musical theater energy this holiday season, especially in the wake of the pallid national tour of Elf the Musical, currently playing in the Opera House. That energy blast has arrived in the form of Flashdance-the Musical, which has leapt, leg warmers and all, into the Eisenhower Theater until January 16."

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- Jane Horwitz

MD Theatre Guide - Highly Recommended

"...Flashdance- The Musical is one of those shows that doesn't fit the mold of a movie turned stage musical. Nothing feels like it was shoehorned in and the show looks as if it was conceived for the stage. With a great score, standout performances and choreography that you can't forget, this show gets my full endorsement. What a Feeling!!!"

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- Elliot Lanes

DCTheatreScene - Recommended

The musical, much like the film, works best when there’s dancing—and luckily, there’s plenty to go around. Whether it’s the energy of a breakdance on the street, or the gracefulness of ballet at the studio, or simply the electric pulsating contemporary movements of the dancing girls, director and choreographer Sergio Trujillo presents one memorable movement after another.

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- Keith Loria

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