![]() 2 at the Carnival Center’s Studio Theater, 1300 Biscayne Blvd., Miami. Brisk and funky, with a depth Devine sounds as both heritage and individual impulse, the art form doesn’t get any sharper than this. In Tapeire the fastest tap dancer in the world hot-foots it on his own to live accompaniment. Though a veteran of that Irish step-dance extravaganza, seductive renegade James Devine uses no pre-recorded taps, Vegas-style smoke and mirrors, or dubious storylines to pound out a great show. ![]() Prepare yourselves, brothers and sisters, for the coming of the anti-Lord – the anti-Lord of the Dance, that is. With effects by the Halmi production team balancing the close adaptation overseen by Pratchett, Hogfather was a huge hit on British TV last season Ion, the network formerly known as Pax, carries the U.S. Ian Richardson provides the voice of Death (not a bad guy, it turns out), who fills in for his fellow anthropomorphic personification on his annual gift-giving rounds Marc Warren (Hustle) plays the malevolent assassin. Michelle Dockery stars as the heroine who must straighten things out when the Santa-like Hogfather is kidnapped and marked for murder. ![]() But the darkly imaginative and delightfully realized story is adapted from the “Discworld” books by Terry Pratchett, which predate J.K. With its pointy-hatted wizards’ school, English pedigree and a holiday called Hogswatch, you might dismiss the fantasy Hogfather as suffering a serious case of Potter-envy. ![]()
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