You know you want you some Riverdance: In the opening "Reel Around the Sun," the stage throbs with a kind of orgiastic splendor.Some musicals continue to tour long after they've worn out their welcome. The orchestra grows thinner on each repeat visit, and the productions seem a little further removed from our initial memories. But I would expect Riverdance, which returns to the Fox this weekend for five performances between Friday and Sunday in what is being billed as the "farewell performances,
Dewey International Studies Elementary Irish Dancers in the Spring of 2006 show.
It's a production of Cecil B. DeMilleian proportions: Music, singing, dancing! 400 performers! The baroque-rococo environs of the Fabulous Fox! Free admission! Oh, viva life!