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Kevyn Burrows
Newspaper
Reading Eagle
Wednsday, November 12, 1986
Page 42
Arts and Entertainment Section
The national touring company of the broadway musical 'The Tap Dance Kid'
Stage review by George Hatza
Haage Concert Series
Dancing and speaking role of Mona - Reading Native Jamie M. Pisano
Book - Charles Blackwell
Lyrics by Henry Kreiger("Dreamgirls") and Robert Lorick
Middleclass Black Family
Father, William Sheridan, Lawyer wants Willie to become lawyer - Larry Campbell
Son Willie - Hassoun Tatum
Willies Uncle Dipsey - Kevyn Burrows, dancer and choreographer
Willies older sister Emma bright and overweighthas skills to be next lawyer in clan
Father's wife Ginnie - Laurine Towler - Uncle Dipsey's sister and daughter of Vaudeville
Dancerdemands he allow family to live out their own dreams, he compromises for family peace.
Directed by Jerry Zaks
Choreography - Danny Daniels
Admiration for Dance
Emma, powerful voice has deep need to be loved
Tatum's Willie oozes innocence
Dipsey - Kevyn Burrows, delivers immensely likable and powerful accomplished performance -
"Fabulous Feet " - show stopper
Towler's "I remember how it was balanced flawlessly by Campbell's hard hitting 'Williams Song' in
which he comes to see he is trapped in the same stereotype he detests.
As Daddy Bates, Ginnies and Dipsey's late faher, Gary chapman, smooth as silk.
Solid family entertainment without overbearing message or condecending to adults or younger
audience members. Start to finish, a class act.
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