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Going Bollywood: can kathak dancers stop the show in Bombay Dreams?

Publication: Dance Magazine
Publication Date: 01-JUN-04 		Format: Online - approximately 1014 words
Delivery: Immediate Online Access
Full Article Title: Going Bollywood: can kathak dancers stop the show in Bombay Dreams?(On Broadway)

Article Excerpt
It's happened with some regularity: I'll be chatting with an Indian of Pakistani taxi driver when traffic suddenly stalls as we approach the theater district. He tells me he doesn't understand the holdup; I tell him it's Wednesday afternoon--matinee time. He has no idea what I'm talking about.

New York's South Asian population has been growing for years--you can buy an imported sari of try authentic Madras cuisine in dozens of neighborhoods, But you wouldn't know it on Broadway. This vital element in New York's melting pot has been pretty much invisible on both sides of the footlights. Until the arrival of Bombay Dreams.

The show is a pop culture landmark: the first Broadway musical about contemporary India, centered on--and freely borrowing from--the thriving "Bollywood" film industry. It tells the story of a starstruck young man who trades the Bombay slums for the glitzy existence of a film star, and its...

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