FLASHDANCE- THE MUSICAL to Launch National Tour in Pittsburgh in 2013

FLASHDANCE – THE MUSICAL, the stage adaptation of the 1983 hit film that will play Broadway in Fall 2012, will launch the national tour with an additional company on January 1, 2013 at the Heinz Hall in Pittsburgh, the steel town that serves as the show's setting. FLASHDANCE will go on to play over 25 markets in North America. Additional cities and tour casting will be announced in the coming months.

Directed and choreographed by Sergio Trujillo (Jersey Boys, Memphis, The Addams Family), FLASHDANCE features a book by Robert Cary and Tom Hedley (co-writer of the original screenplay with Joe Eszterhas), music by Robbie Roth and lyrics by Robert Cary and Robbie Roth.

With an initial premiere in London in 2010, the creatively reworked production of FLASHDANCE will begin performances on Broadway in the fall of 2012 for an open-ended engagement at a theatre to be announced soon. A Second Company of FLASHDANCE will be assembled to kick off the national tour.

FLASHDANCE tells the unforgettable story of Alex Owens, a working-class girl from Pittsburgh striving to make her dreams of becoming a professional dancer a reality. She works by day at a steel mill, where she catches the eye of her boss Nick Hurley. By night she works as a "flashdancer" at a local bar but longs to become a student at the prestigious Shipley Dance Academy.

The Paramount Pictures film was a runaway hit with a worldwide gross of $150 million. The Grammy Award-winning FLASHDANCE soundtrack achieved a similar level of success, spawning such hits as "Gloria," "Manhunt," "Maniac," "I Love Rock 'n Roll," and the Academy Award-winning theme "Flashdance - What A Feeling," all of which are included in FLASHDANCE – THE MUSICAL's score along with over 10 new songs penned by Cary and Roth.

The national tour of FLASHDANCE is produced by NETworks Presentations LLC, Steven Baruch, Tom Viertel, Marc Routh, Richard Frankel, Christopher Malcolm, David Ian Productions and Transamerica.

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