11 p.m. 10) TAP DANCE Local 121 (121 Washington Street, 401-274-2121; www.locand21.com), a restauranightspotghtspownedned by a Rhode Island state senator, Josh Miller, mixes young crowds with old style.
From 11 a.m. to noon, rain or shine, inside the park at 72nd Street and Fifth Avenue, dianewolkstein.com; free.20090903 TAP DANCE OPEN HOUSELAUREL GRAEBER 34186 TAP DANCE OPEN HOUSE (Wednesday) You don't need tap shoes or tap experience, just a willingness to try a brief class at this event from the American Tap Dance Foundation.
We have done 30 dressage routines and 30 tap dances in this outfit without washing it once (it's dry clean only, and who can afford that in Edinburgh?) Our bargain plimsolls have become so pungent that we gag every time we open the suitcase to set up for the show.
Career: First made his mark on Broadway aged 12 in The Tap Dance Kid.
A disposable song inspires a showstopper, a smashing bravura display for Mr. Grimes, a 19-year-old tap dance whiz who takes the stage and tears it up.
"You know, you've got Tap Dance 2 in one studio and Jujitsu 3 in the other studio, and Hugh Jackman and me and Tom in the other one," said the casting director, Nina Gold.
Rory McIlroy had a chance at a birdie on No. 18 to make his tap dance with the cut a little less intimate.
Challenged by the presenter Andrew Neil, who said the Labour politician was tap-dancing around his questions about a supply-and-confidence arrangement, Murphy said: "With my size-13 feet, I cannot tap dance around anything.
(And by the way, it was pretty cool to see. By the time Jace was 10, he was taking tap dance classes, and he was GOOD).
Having learned to tap dance at 14, he was hired as a dancer and singer with a 16-piece orchestra.
Mr. Calhoun, a director/choreographer who gained renown as Tommy Tune's protégé, has been in show business for nearly 30 years: he tap danced in summer stock at 16 alongside Ann Miller in "Anything Goes"; is steadfastly suave, yet still has rejection issues.
