Saturday Night Fever (Broadway at Duke, 8 p.m. Dec. 3 in Page Auditorium on Duke University’s West Campus in Durham, NC) is Troika Entertainment’s current touring production of the Broadway musical based on the 1977 film starring John Travolta as aimless Brooklyn street kid-turned-white-suited disco king Tony Manero. The film’s legendary Bee Gees soundtrack, which helped launch the disco-dancing craze, included “Stayin’ Alive,” “If I Can’t Have You,” “Night Fever,” “Jive Talkin’,” “You Should Be Dancing,” and “How Deep Is Your Love?” Adapted for the stage by Tony Award® nominee Nan Knighton (The Scarlet Pimpernel), in collaboration with Arlene Phillips, Paul Nicholas, and Robert Stigwood, Saturday Night Fever is directed and choreographed by Arlene Phillips. This high-octane dance musical debuted in London in 1998 and premiered in New York in 1999. For more information, visit http://www.duke.edu/web/duu/broadway/broadwayevents.htm#rent and http://www.troika.com/snf.html. For tickets, telephone 919/684-4444 or visit http://tickets.duke.edu/. Parking Alert: There is no free parking adjacent to the Page Auditorium anymore. You may purchase a $3 parking voucher when you buy your ticket or pay $5 at the new Parking Deck (PGIV) located on Science Drive, behind the Bryan Center.
About The Author
Robert McDowell
Robert W. McDowell is a Raleigh, NC, freelance writer, editor, and theater critic who served as CVNC's theatre editor from September 2002 to May 2010. Since 1973, the Columbia, SC, native and 1970 graduate of East Carolina University in Greenville, NC, has written theater, book, and music previews and reviews for the Raleigh News & Observer, The Raleigh Times, North Carolina Magazine of Raleigh, and Spectator Magazine of Raleigh. In April 2001, Robert McDowell established Robert's Reviews, an e-mail theatrical newsletter, to help fill a growing void in Triangle theater coverage. Triangle Theater Review is an expanded version of the original newsletter, circulated by e-mail. He also co-edited and supervised the production of Jim Valvano's Guide to Great Eating (JTV Enterprises, 1984), a 224-page celebrity cookbook; and he served as a fact checker for Valvano: They Gave Me a Lifetime Contract, and Then They Declared Me Dead (Pocket Books, 1991).