Energy! Enthusiasm! Half-naked young dancers with superb bodies jiggling, juggling, jouncing -- they dazzle us with footwork in the dance show, Burn the Floor now on Broadway. There is one underlying theme: sexual innuendo and blatant flirtation. It's like a live TV show for people with short attention spans.
Directed and choreographed by Jason Gilkison, most of the show is total Zip - with great zippy steps, moves and dips, many of which are repeated often, staying within Gilkison's vocabulary. There is a lovely classic waltz, a nice Spanish selection and a charming adagio, but mostly it's fast and furious. The men are all agile, the women all beautiful, they're all great, prize-winning dancers, but the story is redundant.
Costumes by Janet Hine are terrific, and excellent lighting by Rick Belzer sets the proper moods and shadows. In a way, as a show, it's as good as I hoped, but as a totality, as bad as I feared. People are going to love them as they travel the world showing their physical feats and gorgeousness to audiences who have seen them on TV.
