James Earl Jones Theatre
The Old Globe
Inspired by the music of Huey Lewis and the News
Directed by Gordon Greenberg
Choreography by Lorin Latarro
Book by Jonathan Abrams
Story by Tyler Mitchell and Jonathan Abrams
Music Supervision, Arrangements and Orchestrations by Brian Usifer
Press
Ideal fodder, then, for a modestly scaled and warm-hearted jukebox show that might prove to be one of the sleeper hits of the season.
– NY Daily News
The Heart of Rock and Roll is the funniest new musical of the season.
– Vulture
The Heart of Rock and Roll is at its most entertaining when it enters truly deranged territory, as in a dream ballet set to “Stuck with You”
– Time out NY
Lorin Latarro’s high-energy choreography here makes clever use of props, having employees slide on cardboard sheets and deploying the ensemble in a number that involves jumping on Bubble Wrap.
Greenberg and Latarro’s fast-paced, resourceful staging.
– The New York Times
After “Kinky Boots,” you would think there was no more cleverness to be mined from assembly-line shenanigans. Wrong! Choreographer Lorin Latarro has the cast perform a campy tap dance on a big piece of bubble wrap that’s “Anything Goes” meets the Monty Python coconuts.
– NY Post
With the help of a killer ensemble decked out in glittery ’80s trashiness, Lorin Latarro’s tour de force choreography starts on an industrial assembly line and then lets young bodies move energetically and unpretentiously through time and space. The show captures much of “Road House” or even “Dirty Dancing,” as well as drawing from the Broadway world of “Rock of Ages” and “School of Rock.” It’s a sort of gritty, Midwestern “Mamma Mia,” with paper-pushers and Lake Michigan basement dwellers taking the place of the beautiful Greeks astride the Ionian Sea.
– NY Daily News
Lorin Latarro’s choreography enacts a similar kind (of wit &) humor.
– Vulture
Latarro choreographs, achieving some kind of immortality with all that bubble wrap.
– The Wrap
Lorin Latarro’s splashy, exuberant choreography
– The Sun
An exuberantly silly bubble-wrap based dance number is a delight… Lorin Latarro’s lunatic choreography is actually some of the sharpest on Broadway this season.
– Theaterly
Choreographer Lorin Latarro’s use of bubble wrap in “Workin’ for a Livin’” and a nightmare ballet evoking Cassandra’s fears of middle-class conformity are highlights.
– Theatermania
Another tour de force suite of choreography by Latarro who has sure shaken up Broadway movement this season.
– Chris Jones, Chicago Tribune
The choreographer takes off in a Stomp style number that has the ensemble dancing boisterously on bubble wrap!
– Charles McNulty, LA Times
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