DANCE
BY R A C H A E L C A R N E S
KARLI DINARDO AS ALEX OWENS
SHE’S A MANIAC!
Catching up with the star of Flashdance: The Musical, coming to the Hult
PHOTO BY DENISE TRUSCELLO
he 1983 film Flashdance shook up American
culture. Racy and sweet, the movie defined fashion
at the time, introduced what seemed like very new,
edgy street dance, and taught a generation of young
women how to take their bras off underneath their
sweatshirts.
Based on the phenomenally successful film, Flashdance:
The Musical adapts to the stage the story of Alex Owens, a
welder by day and bar dancer by night, who has big dreams
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of one day becoming a professional ballet dancer.
Taking the lead role, Karli Dinardo, just 20-years-old,
was born and raised in Melbourne, Australia, but she doffs
her Aussie accent to sing, dance and act her way through
Pittsburgh’s gritty steel mills and gentlemen’s clubs.
“I started dancing when I was about three,” Dinardo
says. “I was a terrible toddler, and my parents put me into
dance classes, hoping that dancing would help me to use
up all that energy.”
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After her first dance class, Dinardo was hooked. “You
couldn’t stop me!” she says.
Singing soon followed, then acting. Dinardo attended
the prestigious American Musical and Dramatic Academy
for college and snapped up a major role in the touring
production of Flashdance.
Choreographed and directed by Tony Award-winning
Sergio Trujillo, the musical employs a combination of
ballet, jazz, hip hop and lyrical movement. “The style of
the show is so cool,” says Dinardo. “The choreography has
so many different moments in it.”
Dinardo’s part requires her to be in motion nearly every
minute, and unlike the film’s actress Jennifer Beals, Dinardo
does all her own dancing and singing. Dinardo says she’s
gotten used to finding the places in the movement to catch
her breath, “But it’s not during a kick-my-face/triple-turn,
that’s for sure,” she says.
With book by Tom Hedley (co-writer of the film’s
original screenplay) and music and lyrics by Robbie Roth
and Robert Cary, the musical features all the beloved
songs from the movie including “Manhunt,” “Maniac” and
“Flashdance: What a Feeling.”
“Audiences can look forward to seeing the classic tunes
they know and love,” Dinardo says. “Along with 16 new
songs that’ve been written for the show.”
When I catch up with her by phone, Dinardo says
she hasn’t yet experienced the onstage shower, rigged to
drench her during the stage retelling of one of the film’s
most iconic scenes.
“I hear the water will be room temperature,” says
Dinardo. “And that there’ll be lots of it.” ■
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