Blaze

Overview

Look at the header. Are those outfits enough to make you want to see this show before you’ve even read anything about it? Probably, but jazzy parachute pants are just one facet of this high voltage streetdance spectacular.

Blaze is a hip-hop musical from West End choreographer Anthony van Laast, the man behind the moves of Mamma Mia! and Sister Act. Imagine Britain’s Got Talent or So You Think You Can Dance if everyone had extraordinary amount of talent and actually could dance. Then add dizzying set designs by Es Devlin (who has the London 2012 closing ceremony and Lady Gaga’s Monster Ball tour on his set design C.V.), seizure-inducing strobes and music by Michael Jackson, Lady Gaga, Kanye West, David Guetta and Snoop Dogg.

For Blaze’s Australian tour the producers were looking to cast local talent to join the troupe. The show’s Sydney leg will welcome Demi Sorano, self-taught b-girl and So You Think You Can Dance (2008) alumni.