Blast!
Opening Night: April 17, 2001
Closing: September 23, 2001
Theater: Broadway Theatre
Winner of a 2001 Tony Award for Special Theatrical Event! With a cast of 60 brass, percussion and visual performers, Blast! is a unique combination of music, theater, dance and exciting visuals. Cast members perform high-speed, intricately choreographed drill routines to both original and classical music. Industrial scaffolding, poles, walkways into the audience, and pyrotechnics provide the backdrop for the show’s incredible sound. James Mason directs.
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April 18, 2001
One feels bad about criticizing the nice young men and women who perform in ”Blast!,” the halftime show that has wandered onto the stage at the Broadway Theater as if it got lost on the way to the stadium. Mostly in their 20’s, and all members of a nonprofit performing and educational group called Star of Indiana, which is based in Bloomington, they are brass players and percussionists, dancers and jugglers, a glowingly good-looking bunch, and irrepressibly cheery, too. Rah, rah.
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