`Tonite' is Tommy Tune to a T: dancing, charming, strutting

From: The Boston Globe (Boston, MA) | Date: April 30, 1993| Author: | Copyright information

TOMMY TUNE TONITE!

Song and dance act with Tommy Tune. Directed by Jeff

Calhoun. Set, Tony Walton. Costumes, Willa Kim. Lights,

Jules Fisher & Peggy Eisenhauer. Sound, David Dansky.

Musical direction, Michael Biagi. At the Colonial Theatre

through Sunday

The trick is to write about "Tommy Tune Tonite!," at the Colonial, without tall metaphors and too many t's (he taps as though there were no tomorrow, travels so high above terra firma you imagine he's close enough to God to touch Him, that kind of thing). The fact is, of course, that Tune is a technical wonder, a showman of ...

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