Brothers Of The Knight

The Tony award-winning dancer, choreographer, actress and director, Debbie Allen brings her brand-new musical to audiences around the nation, in a delightful new spin on Grimms' fairytale The 12 Dancing Princesses.

In Allen's production, instead of princesses, we have a minister with 12 sons, whose shoes are all torn to bits night after night from dancing. Despite banning them from dancing, the shoes continue to turn up every morning scuffed to pieces. But where do these boys go after dark? And how can anybody solve the mystery? This modern retelling of the popular Grimm tale has seen criticl acclaim off-Broadway already in 2014.

With a travelling cast of 24 actors ranging from 18 down to the tender ages of six and seven, they were cast from open auditions and taught at her dance studio in Los Angeles. No prior training was required, only a passion to learn quickly. This dance and musical spectacular is part of Allen's initiative to encourage boys and young men to take up dance, where she has a "no tights policy" outside of ballet class, as this was frequently cited as a major reason that boys avoided dance.

Allen is probably best known for her 1980 role in Broadway's West Side Story, where her costume was torn by accident on stage by a member of the Shark's gang. Picking up the ten or so yards of fabric, and wrapping it about herself, Allen won a Drama Desk Award and was nominated for a Tony Award for this role as a mark of professionalism.