Performance: 'Jersey Boys' and Zenon Dance Company

August 17, 2012 at 9:00PM
"Elegant Echoes"
"Elegant Echoes" (Margaret Andrews/The Minnesota Star Tribune)

Zenon Dance Company

Zenon's 28th Spring Season features new work from Kyle Abraham, a Pittsburgh native who's become one of the hottest young choreographers in New York. Highlighted in Dance Magazine's "25 to Watch" in 2009, the Bessie award-winning Abraham will premiere "My Quarrelling Heart" with Zenon's outstanding dancers. The program also features Wynn Fricke's "My Very Empty Mouth," a duet for Tamara Ober and Laura Selle Virtucio, plus "Over End Over" by Uri Sands of TU Dance (also a duet with a rotating cast). Repertory pieces from Sydney Skybetter and Danny Buraczeski round out the evening. (8 p.m. Fri.-Sat., 7 p.m. Sun. Ends May 1. $28. Ritz Theater, www.ritzdolls.com.)

  • Caroline Palmer

    'Jersey Boys'

    Making successful jukebox musicals should be a cinch, since they're built around hit songs. But the fact that so many have flopped -- including the Elvis Presley show "All Shook Up" and the Beach Boys-based "Good Vibrations" -- proves how difficult they are to craft. "Jersey Boys," which returns for a three-week run, is one of the exceptions. This Tony- and Grammy-winning musical about Frankie Valli and the Four Seasons -- working-class young men who rocketed to fame on sweet harmonies and smooth lyrics -- follows the standard behind-the-music script. But it soars via gifted young performers who bring to life pop classics to which many Americans were conceived, including "Can't Take My Eyes Off of You," "Sherry" and "December, 1963 (Oh, What a Night)." More event details.

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