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Tickets still available for 'Movin' Out'

January 17, 2008 @ 11:43 PM

The Herald-Dispatch

The Herald-Dispatch

HUNTINGTON -- The Tony Award-winning musical "Movin' Out" will hit the stage of the Keith-Albee Performing Arts Center tonight as part of the Marshall Artists Series.

Show time is 8 p.m. As of late Thursday afternoon, a couple of hundred tickets were still available. Tickets are $45, $50 and $55.

The musical, which debuted on Broadway in October of 2002, is a collaboration of legendary choreographer Twlya Tharp and five-time Grammy-Award winner Billy Joel. The show features a cast of about 30 dancers and musicians.

Told through the choreography of Tharp and rocked up with more than two dozen of Joel's songs, "Movin' Out" is the story of lifelong friends through two turbulent decades that changed the world forever from post World War II idealism to the collective uwnrest during the Vietnam War.

Songs such as "It's Still Rock and Roll to Me," "We Didn't Start the Fire," and "Pressure" come together to weave a musical backdrop that complements Tharp's innovative choreography.

Both Tharp and Joel won Tony Awards for the musical -- Tharp for Best Choreography and Joel for Best Orchestration. The show had 1,303 regular performances on Broadway and ended its run in the Richard Rodgers Theatre on Dec. 11, 2005.

The national tour began on Jan. 26, 2004, according to www.playbill.com.

Photo courtesy of the Marshall Artists Series

Musical director Rob Cookman's "Movin' Out," the tour of the Tony Award-winning Broadway collaboration of legendary choreographer Twlya Tharp and five-time Grammy Award winner Billy Joel, comes back home to West Virginia.

Photo courtesy of the Marshall Artists Series

Musical director Rob Cookman's "Movin' Out," the tour of the Tony Award-winning Broadway collaboration of legendary choreographer Twlya Tharp and five-time Grammy Award winner Billy Joel, comes back home to West Virginia.

Photo courtesy of the Marshall Artists Series

The Broadway smash “Movin’ Out,” a musical collaboration between five-time Grammy Award winner Billy Joel and legendary choreographer Twyla Tharp, hits the stage at 8 p.m. Friday, Jan. 18.