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Flashdance is a stage musical based on the film of the same name with a book by Tom Hedley and Robert Cary, music by Robbie Roth and lyrics by Roth and Cary. The musical had a US tour in —, but an expected Broadway run was postponed. Set in Pittsburgh , Pennsylvania , the show revolves around year-old Alex, a welder by day and 'flashdancer' by night, and her dreams of attending the prestigious Shipley Dance Academy. Based on the Paramount Pictures film screenplay by Tom Hedley and Joe Eszterhas , story by Tom Hedley , the UK production described itself as "an unmistakably unique musical about holding onto your dreams and love against all the odds". Pittsburgh, On the floor of Hurley Steel, young steelworker Alexandra "Alex" Owens welds while waiting impatiently for her shift to end "Steeltown Sky".

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An year-old female amateur dancer who performs nightly at a dancing bar, and works as a welder during the day, dreams of joining the Pittsburgh ballet school. Nick : Don't you understand? When you give up your dream, you die. Sign In Sign In. New Customer? Create account. Flashdance R 1h 35m. Play trailer Drama Music Romance. Director Adrian Lyne. Thomas Hedley Jr. Joe Eszterhas.

Nick intervenes, and after taking Alex home, the two begin a relationship. Retrieved August 29, Stacey Pickren Margo.

Flashdance is a American romantic drama dance film directed by Adrian Lyne and starring Jennifer Beals as a passionate young dancer who aspires to become a professional ballerina Alex , alongside Michael Nouri playing her boyfriend and the owner of the steel mill where she works by day in Pittsburgh. It was the first collaboration of producers Don Simpson and Jerry Bruckheimer , and the presentation of some sequences in the style of music videos was an influence on other s films including Footloose , Purple Rain , and Top Gun , Simpson and Bruckheimer's most famous production. It was also one of Lyne's first major film releases, building on television commercials. The film opened to negative reviews by professional critics , including Roger Ebert , who panned it as "great sound and flashdance, signifying nothing" and eventually placed it on his "most hated" list. Flashdance is also often remembered for its film poster featuring Beals sporting a sweatshirt with a large neck hole according to the actress, her look in the scene came about by accident after she simply cut a large hole at the top of one that had shrunk in the wash. Alex Owens is an eighteen-year-old welder at a steel mill in Pittsburgh , who lives with her dog, Grunt, in a converted warehouse. She aspires to become a professional dancer, but has no formal dance training and works as a nightly cabaret performer at Mawby's, a neighborhood bar and grill.

Flashdance is a American romantic drama dance film directed by Adrian Lyne and starring Jennifer Beals as a passionate young dancer who aspires to become a professional ballerina Alex , alongside Michael Nouri playing her boyfriend and the owner of the steel mill where she works by day in Pittsburgh. It was the first collaboration of producers Don Simpson and Jerry Bruckheimer , and the presentation of some sequences in the style of music videos was an influence on other s films including Footloose , Purple Rain , and Top Gun , Simpson and Bruckheimer's most famous production. It was also one of Lyne's first major film releases, building on television commercials. The film opened to negative reviews by professional critics , including Roger Ebert , who panned it as "great sound and flashdance, signifying nothing" and eventually placed it on his "most hated" list. Flashdance is also often remembered for its film poster featuring Beals sporting a sweatshirt with a large neck hole according to the actress, her look in the scene came about by accident after she simply cut a large hole at the top of one that had shrunk in the wash.

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Marder, of course, lost the case. Still, the soundtrack was a huge hit, selling more than six million copies. Mattel waited until to jump on the Flashdance bandwagon when they turned Alex into a Barbie doll, replete with leg warmers and a torn grey sweatshirt.

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But when the bar's owner, Harry, enters and complains that a new lap-dance joint called Chameleon — opened down the street by a shady entrepreneur named C. Australia's Music Charts — One states that then-Paramount president Michael Eisner asked women secretaries at the studio to select their favorite after viewing screen tests. Dance Spirit. Bud S. Learn more. April 15, United States. October 29, Dutch Top DNF film ID. The music for "Flashdance Michael Kaplan.