He's equally adept with the interiors of the church as with rooftop scenes of the boys whooping it up under starlit skies. Successfully capturing the energy of the swirling, twirling nighttime revelers, first-time children's book artist Nelson's sepia-toned illustrations possess the precision of line accorded to pen-and-inks, filled out with a full palette of oil paints. They don't and she quits, but all ends happily. There they swing till dawn, returning home with shoes ""worn to threads, messed up, torn up, stinky, dirty, tacky, jacked up."" Sunday, a sharp, attractive housekeeper with magical powers, discovers the siblings' secret, but she keeps mum, waiting instead until the kids themselves are ready to 'fess up to their dad. Griffin McIntyre at rehearsals of Brothers of the Knight (2014) Written and produced for stage by Debbie Allen, Brothers of the Knight is an adaptation of The Brothers Grimm’s, Twelve Dancing Princesses. Allen, who collaborated as director on the show with Academy Award-nominated composer. but a lot was goin' on that couldn't be explained."" Actress, choreographer and producer Allen gives a familiar tale a hip spin as the brothers dance each night from one roof to the next to reach the Big Band Ballroom. April 16-26 in the new children's musical, The Brothers of the Knight. Narrating the tale in a chatty if somewhat rambling voice, the family dog, Happy, explains that this man ""raised his sons with a firm, loving hand. The Twelve Dancing Princesses have nothin' on the 12 sons of Reverend Knight, a Harlem preacher.
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