STAGE TUBE: Flash Mob Promotes Chanhassen's ALL SHOOK UP

On Sunday, August 22^nd, 207 volunteers danced in a "Flash Mob" performance at Mall of America to celebrate Chanhassen Dinner Theatres' new hit production of ALL SHOOK UP in a choreographed rendition of "JAILHOUSE ROCK." The "Flash Mob," choreographed by Tamara Kangas-Erickson, featured several members of the ALL SHOOK UP cast and about 200 additional volunteers (from as far north as St. Cloud and as far south as Marshalltown, Iowa) who joined in the fun. Participants ranged in age from 7 to 70! The "Flash Mob" number features the lead dancer from the Chanhassen production playing a character who busts out of jail and is eluding the law. Dancers are looking high and low for him. At one point in the dance, the group strips off their tops to reveal black and white t-shirts used to form jailhouse uniform stripes and a live beating heart for the "heartthrob jailbird." The entire 3.5 minute routine was rehearsed in just two rehearsals last week held at Chanhassen and Chaska High Schools.

A "Flash Mob" is a choreographed dance number comprised of a mob of people who "spontaneously" break into a celebration of dance in a highly public location. When the dance ends, the participants fade into the crowd as if it never happened. The mob was actually performed throughout Sunday afternoon at three separate times. Thousands of onlookers were thrilled and happily entertained on Sunday afternoon as the music of Elvis filled the Best Buy Rotunda at Mall of America. The event, which was professionally recorded, will be edited into a short video accessible on Chanhassen Dinner Theatres' website at ChanhassenDT.com. ALL SHOOK UP is a highly charged romantic musical comedy featuring more than two dozen Elvis Presley hits and is currently playing on the Main Stage at Chanhassen Dinner Theatres. For more information, go to www.ChanhassenDT.com or call 952-934-1525.