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Video Club: Footlight Parade & All That Jazz Discussion
September 13, 2025 @ 2:00 pm - 4:00 pm
You saw the movies at the Foundry. Now let’s get together and talk about them!
This month, Video Club takes its first trip to where it all began; Tinsel town, the Dream Factory, old time Hollywood. It’s time to journey through moviedom’s only begotten stepchild – Musical Comedy, through the lens of the highs and lows revolving around a singular figure – The Song and Dance Man.
Inherited from Broadway, perfected on screen? Watch the logic and reason of stagebound physics go completely out the window with the advent of Movie Magic.
To start us off, we watch Busby Berkeley’s “Footlight Parade” (1933) starring absolute powerhouse Song and Dance Man James Cagney in his early prime as he saves Broadway with lightning fast thinking, infinite creativity, and energy levels sufficient to work a 500 hour work week. Be amazed, let a little steam out from underneath your collar, and witness expressionistic opulence from almost a century past.
Next up, an all too real, all too meta portrait of the crushing nature of a life dedicated to 20th century entertainment. It’s hat and cane choreography progenitor Bob Fosse’s “All That Jazz”! With Bob himself at the director’s seat, watch as a man deals with, predicts, creates? His own fate. Womanizer, alcoholic, Bob’s life is one long hungover dress rehearsal as years of keeping the world on the edge of its seat catches up to one of the men who taught Broadway how to dance. I think I’m gonna cry!
FREE Video Club screening of Footlight Parade on Thursday, September 4, 6:30pm at Foundry Theater! (donations welcomed to defer costs)
