Hints and tips:
...Neal Davies and Heather Lowe scheme with lively purpose as Sergeant Meryll and his daughter, Phoebe....
...Angell was born on September 19 1920, in Manhattan to Ernest Angell, a lawyer, and Katharine Sergeant....
...Admittedly, I have been conversing with the kind of charm extended by drill sergeant Hartman in Stanley Kubrick’s Full Metal Jacket, and emotions are wearing pretty thin....
...Echoes of Robbins’s graceful balletic dance routines do crop up here, but the overall feel is punkishly avant-garde....
...Like other classes, it’s broken up into climbs, sprints and other challenges, all set to music — but it’s less dance party and more Grand Tour-meets-video game....
...We did a little dance together.”...
...Aitor Arrieta and Daniel McCormick won the ears and the tail for their Act Three Spanish dance and Ashton’s toe-twisting Neapolitan duet was (for once) matched by Andy Mitchell’s virtuoso trumpet....
...Sergeant....
...Equator Village is a charmingly simple hotel based around the old sergeants’ mess....
...In London, The Wolves comes hot on the heels of Dance Nation , Clare Barron’s fantastical play about an adolescent dance squad....
...They run a shebeen — an unlicensed drinking establishment — a place where folk can relax, dance, listen to calypso and reminisce....
...Showgirls preen and pout, swivel-eyed sergeants strut and mutter as the razzamatazz of Vegas meets the boom of nuclear fission....
...But the joy is following a roving plot that embraces the sorts of twists to be found in Shakespearean comedies and that stops in at a Mission Hall, a New York sewer and dance club in Havana....
...We know it cannot go on indefinitely because, eventually, the fans demand that you do have to be able to dance in a dance contest....
...Note how that last sentence dances around the word “federal”....
...Boz was named “Bootcamp Drill Sergeant”....
...It has a unique cuisine, language and dance....
...; Lucio breaks off his first line to remove his nipple clamps; even the Duke wears a black leather corset (evoking memories of Sergeant Wilson in Dad’s Army protesting, “It’s a gentleman’s abdominal support...
...We are also thrilled to have secured Susan Boyle for the first big dance number....
...He puts on a gruff, drill sergeant voice – one of many impressions during our interview. “Just how effective was Magnet?” he barks. “Look at that guy!”...
...Hollander heads a phalanx of acting talent including Lisa Dillon as his naive wife, Lloyd Hutchinson as the former sergeant major who runs the hotel, Jonathan Cake as the libidinous friend drawn by mistake...
...“But they prefer to drink beer and dance in the bar.”...
...I feel like Private Benjamin being bawled out by the Drill Sergeant. But the plus side, I console myself, is that I’ll miss the first few jumps. No such luck....
...As Sergeant Sulpice, Bruno Praticò wields a basso buffo of considerable allure....
...“That means the sergeant would have to say to the soldiers, ‘Be a tree,’” says Greig. “That really made me laugh.”...
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