Broadway Center Stage: "Holding out for a Hero" from Footloose | The Kennedy Center

Everybody cut Footloose! The Kennedy Center presents an all-new, semi-staged concert production of everyone's favorite rock'n'roll musical. Featuring an Oscar®- and Tony®-nominated top 40 score, this new version, directed by Tony Award® winner Walter Bobbie, explodes onto the stage. The musical features all of the pulse-raising hit songs, such as "Holding Out for a Hero," "Let's Hear it for the Boy," and the exhilarating title track "Footloose." When rebellious teenager Ren McCormack, played by J. Quinton Johnson (Choir Boy, Hamilton, Broadway Center Stage: In the Heights), moves from Chicago to a small town in Texas where dance and rock music are forbidden, he leads his classmates around the law, and Reverend Shaw Moore, to break free and have a rock'n'roll senior prom. The production also stars Isabelle McCalla (The Prom, Aladdin) as Ariel Moore, the Reverend's rebellious daughter, with Michael Park (Dear Evan Hansen) as Reverend Shaw Moore, three-time Tony Award® nominee Rebecca Luker as Vi Moore (Mary Poppins, the Kennedy Center's Little Dancer), and four-time Tony Award® nominee Judy Kuhn (Fun Home, Les Misérables) as Ethel McCormack. The cast also includes Joshua Logan Alexander as Chuck, Peter McPoland as Willard Hewitt, Tony Award® nominee Michael Mulheren (Kiss Me, Kate; Bright Star) as Coach Dunbar, Grace Slear (Urleen), Lena Owens as Wendy Jo, Nicole Vanessa Ortiz (Spamilton) as Rusty, and Rema Webb (The Color Purple, Violet) as Lulu Warnicker/Eleanor Dunbar/Betty Blast, with Brandon Burks, Claire Crause, Michele Lee, Jess LeProtto, Gregory Liles, Nick Martinez, Maximilian Sangerman, Jonathan Savage, Bethany Tesarck, Tiernan Tunnicliffe, and Jamar Williams. Stage adaptation by Dean Pitchford and Walter Bobbie Based on the original screenplay by Dean Pitchford Music by Tom Snow Lyrics by Dean Pitchford Additional music by Eric Carmen, Sammy Hagar, Kenny Loggins, and Jim Steinman Directed by Walter Bobbie Choreographed by Spencer Liff Musical direction by Sonny Paladino Set and projection design by Paul Tate dePoo III Costume design by David Woolard Lighting design by Cory Pattak Sound design by Jon Weston Performance Timing: Act 1 - 58 min.; Intermission - 18 min.; Act 2 - 52 min. Broadway Center Stage Come celebrate more of your favorite musicals with the return of our hit series, presented exclusively in our nation's capital! In a semi-staged concert format and featuring starry casts direct from Broadway, these "extremely high caliber" (The Washington Post) productions put great musicals Center Stage. Please note: Broadway Center Stage performances are presented as semi-staged concerts. The actors may carry scripts in hands for various scenes of their performance. Subscribe to The Kennedy Center! http://bit.ly/2gNFrtb