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Monday
Apr082013

Six Dance Lessons in Six Weeks

Variety recently reported that Rita Moreno had joined the cast of the comedy Six Dance Lessons in Six Weeks. It's not uncommon for famous plays to be made into movies but this one affords us the rare opportunity to see three famous actresses we just don't see anymore strutting their stuff . In addition to Oscar winning Moreno, the one and only Ann-Margret will appear and acting icon and still Oscarless Gena Rowlands has the lead role of a retiree who hires a dance instructor (Cheyenne Jackson) to teach her. Cheyenne's been tweeting from Hungary where they start filming today!

Regarding the plot: As you may have guessed this pair's relationship starts out thorny but deepens. Dancing Miss Daisy

The play has been performed across the Globe (you can see a past gallery of pairings here). It'll be interesting to see if Cheyenne & Gena have the kind of big screen chemistry you'd need to pull something like this off or if it'll turn out to have more or a made-for-television filler programming feel. But I'm all in with this cast even if when I first heard of it I thought suddenly of that forgotten Liza Minnelli film Stepping Out when she teaches a bunch of Hopeless Students to tap dance so that they could each overcome their screenplay problem and everyone could live have a happy character arc. Good luck everyone!

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Reader Comments (13)

Jacki Weaver, also fabulous (though we've seen her a lot more in the past couple of years) is also amongst the cast.

April 8, 2013 | Unregistered CommenterJohn T

It doesn't look promising to me, but it's good to see Ann-Margaret and Gena Rowlands still working. I'm still waiting for a remake of that 1940s classic Six Lessons from Madame La Zonga!

April 8, 2013 | Unregistered CommenterJoe U.K.

I've just read that the marvelous Jacki Weaver also joined the cast, so this movie sounds better by the minute. Glad that the Marigold Hotel's success is allowing this sort of material to get made.

April 8, 2013 | Unregistered CommenterPeggy Sue

And Jacki Weaver!

April 8, 2013 | Unregistered CommenterGlenn

OMG......Give Gena Rowlands an Oscar already....

April 8, 2013 | Unregistered CommenterMark

Budapest?
there's plenty of studio space and cheap non-union workers in florida.

April 8, 2013 | Unregistered Commenterverbocityeric

Hopefully it will turn out great but to be honest with that cast I'll see it no matter what. Mediocre though it may be Stepping Out still entertains because of the cast, but this has a more solid book so that should help.

April 8, 2013 | Unregistered Commenterjoel6

I can't believe there's a film actress with the last name Weaver whose a current sensation and, an older person and it ain't Sigourney.

April 8, 2013 | Unregistered Commenter3rtful

Gena already gave the best perfornance of the next years.

April 8, 2013 | Unregistered Commentercal roth

Meryl Streep must have turned this down.

April 8, 2013 | Unregistered CommenterTroy H.

Toy H. -- LOL

April 8, 2013 | Unregistered CommenterPeggy Sue

Jacki Weaver! Yay! She is really on a roll.

April 8, 2013 | Unregistered CommenterPhilip H.

"when she teaches a bunch of Hopeless Students to tap dance so that they could each overcome their screenplay problem and everyone could live have a happy character arc"

That phrase right there is a phrase of beauty.

I would love to see Gena Rowlands get every award under the sun for anything she does - since it can't be for "Another Woman" specifically. But this plotline does kinda scream TV movie.

April 9, 2013 | Unregistered Commentergoran
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