Swing music has always mirrored the grace and resiliency of early American boxers, whose bouts featured far more paired dancing and synchronized kicking than the modern sport. Give your ears a catchy hook with today’s GrouponLive deal for one ticket to Jump, Jive An’ Wail, presented by the Christian Community Theater onboard the USS Midway Museum Aircraft Carrier. All shows take place at 8 p.m. Choose from the following date and seating options:
• For $13, you get one section C ticket for the August 6 performance (an $18–$26 value).
• For $13, you get one section C ticket for the August 7 performance (an $18–$26 value).
• For $13, you get one section C ticket for the August 10 performance (an $18–$26 value).
• For $13, you get one section C ticket for the August 11 performance (an $18–$26 value).
• For $13, you get one section C ticket for the August 12 performance (an $18–$26 value).
• For $13, you get one section C ticket for the August 13 performance (an $18–$26 value).
• For $13, you get one section C ticket for the August 14 performance (an $18–$26 value).
• For $16, you get one section B ticket for the August 6 performance (an $18–$33 value).
• For $16, you get one section B ticket for the August 7 performance (an $18–$33 value).
• For $16, you get one section B ticket for the August 10 performance (an $18–$33 value).
• For $16, you get one section B ticket for the August 11 performance (an $18–$33 value).
• For $16, you get one section B ticket for the August 12 performance (an $18–$33 value).
• For $16, you get one section B ticket for the August 13 performance (an $18–$33 value).
• For $16, you get one section B ticket for the August 14 performance (an $18–$33 value).
A musical review of swing music in all its 20th-century incarnations, Jump, Jive An’ Wail jazzes up audiences with a high-flying series of lindy-hopping dance numbers inspired by artists from World War II to the present. Locked in on American resiliency in the face of hardships, the show tips its broad-brimmed fedora in a salute to those who danced and sang their way through a century of conflicts. Toes begin to tap in syncopated rhythms against the USS Midway’s deck while hits from Glenn Miller’s army years sweep the audience up in a patriotic sea of notes. Frank Sinatra, Elvis Presley, and even The Beach Boys make boogie-woogie cameos as dancers flip and twirl across the stage. Actors in midcentury sailor uniforms perform gravity-defying juggling routines, whirling their red-dressed counterparts around to tunes by current swing favorites such as Manhattan Transfer and Big Bad Voodoo Daddy.
Dazzling the community with its family-friendly theatrics for more than 30 years, Christian Community Theater appropriately presents this sea-worthy extravaganza atop the flight deck of a decommissioned aircraft carrier. A semicircular seating chart complete with bleachers and sectional seating promises unobstructed views of the action and all approaching sea monsters.
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