I like musicals

I saw my first ever Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers movie. Swing Time. I love the classics. Classic music, classic books, classical guitar, yes please. I love it all. I wasn't so sure if I would feel the same about the movies though. I'm not a huge movie buff. I could care less who wrote or directed or who acted in what film. That type of information has just never appealed to me at all. But, I have to say that I do always love musicals and I wasn't disappointed by Swing Time. It was cute, it was fun, it was entertaining, and it tried to be funny. No wonder those two became as famous as they did. I just can't believe it took me as long as it has to finally see one of their films. I can't wait until the next one comes this week.

Watching Swing Time got me in the old timey musical mood so I decided to watch Hello Dolly again too. Yes, again.

I love Hello Dolly so much that I used to sing the song to my dog. Her name was Polly.

Heeeelllllooooooo Polly, well heeeelllloooooo Polly.....

Balltap Danceskating

In preparing for this month of ballroom fun, I decided to turn to Hollywood for some much needed inspiration. On my netflix cue is a few of the many Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers films.

Swing Time is about a gambling man who ditches his fiance to dance with Ginger. 

Um.....ROLLER SKATES! That's all I have to say about Shall We Dance. How can you not love it?

Only in the classics can you find song a dance numbers combined with crossing the line of doctor patient confidentiality.  

Mistaken identity? No problem. Let's dance anyway.

 We've all heard of or seen or watched without fail all the Dancing With the Stars seasons so we all pretty much know what ballroom dancing is. The big difference I see between what we get on the modern television show compared to the classic films in terms of dancing goes is that Fred and Ginger don't really seem to be ballroom dancing much at all. They do some strange and enticing mix of tap and ballroom with far more elegant costume.

I wanna know where the Fred and Ginger school of balltap dancing is and how I sign up for that!