Regina Peluso News

COLLIDE Theatrical Dance Company presents STAND BY ME, February 12-14, 2021.

Twin Cities based Collide Theatrical Dance Company and American Idol alum/Broadway veteran Constantine Maroulis join forces in the creation of 'She's Just Rock' n Roll' . The song comes from Maroulis' recently released album 'Until I'm Wanted'.

COLLIDE Theatrical Dance Company presents 'Class of '85', a dance musical spin-off inspired by the classic John Hughes movies of the 1980's. Get ready for big hair, big dresses, and big dance energy in COLLIDE's newest original dance-musical production, celebrating the best of the 80's! Secrets hidden behind high school stereotypes will be unmasked

COLLIDE Theatrical Dance Company presents a dance musical rendition of Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet at the Cowles Center, Opening on Valentine's Day February 14 and running until February 23, 2020.

'Shakespeare's Plays are a Natural Fit with Dance'-NY Times Article March 2014- Alastair Macaulay COLLIDE Theatrical Dance Company presents a rock ballet rendition of Shakespeare's Romeo and Julietat the Cowles Center February 14-23, 2020.

The Guthrie Theater presents the perennial holiday favorite A Christmas Carol, written by Charles Dickens, adapted by Crispin Whittell and directed by Lauren Keating. A Twin Cities holiday tradition for many, this season marks the Guthrie's 45th production, making it the longest run of A Christmas Carol in regional theater history. 

The Guthrie Theater presents the perennial holiday favorite A Christmas Carol, written by Charles Dickens, adapted by Crispin Whittell and directed by Lauren Keating. A Twin Cities holiday tradition for many, this season marks the Guthrie's 45th production, making it the longest run of A Christmas Carol in regional theater history. 

COLLIDE presents a contemporary version of Oscar Wilde's classic novel premiering March 22- April 7 at Park Square Theatre. Set in modern day New York City, the story follows a beautiful young Dorian Gray who stumbles into an accidental photo opportunity and shoots to heights of social media fame. Disturbed that her physical beauty will deteriorate with age, Dorian wishes for eternal youth. Her wish is granted, and the photo rather than the woman degrades as she pursues a life of corruption and debauchery, reminding her that though her looks are unscathed, her soul is not. Can she still find salvation? Or is her soul trapped in the photograph?

The cast for COLLIDE'S upcoming world premiere dance musical, The Great Gatsby, has been announced. Created by Regina Peluso and Josh Campbell (the creative team that produced COLLIDE's hit production of 'Dracula'), The Great Gatsby features Patrick Jeffrey as Jay Gatsby, Caleb Michael as Nick Carraway, Katie Gearty as Jordan Baker, Chelsea Rose as Myrtle Wilson, Jarod Boltjes as Tom Buchanan, Erik Hunder as George Wilson, and Grace Janiszewski as Daisy Buchanan.

The cast for COLLIDE'S upcoming world premiere dance musical, The Great Gatsby, has been announced. Created by Regina Peluso and Josh Campbell (the creative team that produced COLLIDE's hit production of 'Dracula'), The Great Gatsby features Patrick Jeffrey as Jay Gatsby, Caleb Michael as Nick Carraway, Katie Gearty as Jordan Baker, Chelsea Rose as Myrtle Wilson, Jarod Boltjes as Tom Buchanan, Erik Hunder as George Wilson, and Grace Janiszewski as Daisy Buchanan.

The cast for COLLIDE'S upcoming world premiere dance musical, The Great Gatsby, has been announced. Created by Regina Peluso and Josh Campbell (the creative team that produced COLLIDE's hit production of 'Dracula'), The Great Gatsby features Patrick Jeffrey as Jay Gatsby, Caleb Michael as Nick Carraway, Katie Gearty as Jordan Baker, Chelsea Rose as Myrtle Wilson, Jarod Boltjes as Tom Buchanan, Erik Hunder as George Wilson, and Grace Janiszewski as Daisy Buchanan.

In the past five seasons, Collide Theatrical Dance Company has brought us original stories from various historical eras, as well as adaptations of classics like ROMEO AND JULIET. Their new show is an adaptation of the most well-known novel by Minnesota's own F. Scott Fitzgerald, THE GREAT GATSBY. What makes Collide unique is that they tell their stories entirely through movement and music, with few or no words. Their 'original Broadway-style jazz dance musicals' are a collision of music, dance, and theater. In other words, an excuse for this busy theater blogger to watch pretty people dance prettily, while telling a theatrical story. Combining perfectly chosen pop songs performed by a live band and singers with thrilling dances performed by the talented company of dancers, they're able to convey all of the emotion of the story (with plot summary printed in the program if you care about the plot). THE GREAT GATSBY is a great example of this as they tell the story of these beautifully tragic and tragically beautiful people.

The cast for COLLIDE'S upcoming world premiere dance musical, The Great Gatsby, has been announced. Created by Regina Peluso and Josh Campbell (the creative team that produced COLLIDE's hit production of 'Dracula' ), The Great Gatsby features Patrick Jeffrey as Gatsby, Caleb Michael as Nick, Katie Gearty as Jordan, Chelsea Rose as Myrtle and Grace Janiszewski as Daisy.

The cast for COLLIDE'S upcoming world premiere dance musical, The Great Gatsby, has been announced. Created by Regina Peluso and Josh Campbell (the creative team that produced COLLIDE's hit production of 'Dracula' ), The Great Gatsby features Patrick Jeffrey as Gatsby, Caleb Michael as Nick, Katie Gearty as Jordan, Chelsea Rose as Myrtle and Grace Janiszewski as Daisy.

The cast for COLLIDE'S upcoming world premiere dance musical, The Great Gatsby, has been announced. Created by Regina Peluso and Josh Campbell (the creative team that produced COLLIDE's hit production of 'Dracula' ), The Great Gatsby features Patrick Jeffrey as Gatsby, Caleb Michael as Nick, Katie Gearty as Jordan, Chelsea Rose as Myrtle and Grace Janiszewski as Daisy.

What do you get when you combine COLLIDE Theatrical Dance Company, known for creating original dance musicals, with the History Theatre, dedicated to creating new work based on or inspired by true events in Minnesota history? You get DANCE 'TIL YOU DROP, a dance musical about a Minnesota dance team who competed and set a record in a dance marathon in the 1930s. Let's call it an original historical dance musical! Like all COLLIDE productions, it features exquisite storytelling through dance, and like all History Theatre shows, it's an informative and compelling look at history and how it relates to today. It's fun, inspirational, nostalgic, and over in a quick two hours that will leave you wanting more.

Collide Theatrical presents the World Premiere of LE PETIT MOULIN, running April 21-May 7, 2017 at The Ritz Theater, 345 13th Ave NE, Minneapolis, MN 55413.

Michael Hanna plays middle son Geoffrey in James Goldman's tale of a king and his family on the eve of Christmas that's a complete change from the happy holiday show across the building. THE LION IN WINTER plays through Dec. 31.

Collide Theatrical Dance Company is now in their fourth season of creating 'original Broadway-style jazz dance musicals.' As a theater geek who doesn't know much about dance but loves to watch it, Collide provides an accessible and theatrical way to get into dance. I've seen all of their productions over the last four seasons, and their newest creation DRACULA may just be my favorite of them all. Collide is at their best when they let the dancing do the talking, as they do here, telling this modernized story of the iconic Dracula strictly through movement and music. A live band accompanies this fantastic troupe of dancers as they perform innovative and evocative choreography to a wide variety of popular songs reinvented to fit the story. Created by Artistic Director and choreographer Regina Peluso and director Joshua Campbell, this DRACULA truly is a perfect collision of dance, music, and theater to create a new and exciting form of storytelling.

This summer the Old Log Theatre will present the Tony Award nominated musical comedy The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas, directed by R. Kent Knutson; music director John Lynn and choreographed by Regina Peluso. A cast of 24, featuring Julia Cook, Jefferson Slinkard, John Paul Gamoke, Whitney Rhodes and Ken Rosen, brings big songs and big hair to the stage in this sassy, spirited and touching musical about a real-life brothel in Texas.