‘Lord of the Dance’ in Missouri
Michael Flately’s Lord of the Celtic Bondage comes back to Missouri on Wednesday, April 11, 2007, for a single performance at the Fabulous Fox Theatre in St Louis.
Good Lord, this thing has been going for ten years now! Good Lord of the Dance, even. I don’t really know what to say about it any more.
Flately himself, prescient being him, always maintained that this international showbiz presentation of Irish dancing was never a fad to begin with and was an art form more permanent, like the Kirov or the Bolshoi.
I think that’s absolute nonsense, but I haven’t had a cup of tea for twenty minutes so don’t have the energy to argue with ten years of this show by three or four troupes on various continents.
Musically you get the gist of the entire show if you just visit the official website and listen to the extended dance version (Ha!) of the Lord of The Dance tune itself, and save yourself $40-$70 dollars in the process, give or take some dancing. I wonder if Phil Lynott was still alive if he would still choose it as his favourite song?
St Louis’ Fabulous Fox is also where Celtic Woman are doing their thing later in the month, on April 22. See website
See More on this Sweeping Irish Dancing Pizazz:
• Lord of the Dance Insults Eileen Ivers
• Irishness to Oirishness: The Flatley Dance
• Flatley Troubles Troubles
• Flatley The Re-inventor
• Irish Choral Music & Celtic Underpants
• Scottish-based Irish Dancer Faster than God
• How To Do Irish Dancing
Eolaí gan Fhéile:
So, well, I joined the unwashed masses and started a bloody blog.
I’ll get the hang of it by 2009 but the meantime in answer
to your pondering of if Philo would like the tunes of Riverdance,
in the words of Paul Cleary, “Not a ghost of a chance” I say.