Noah Racey Does Astaire And Bolger

Hoofer Noah Racey has been busy. After doing Fred Astaire’s bit from Swing Time on Broadway in Never Gonna Dance, he’s now got the title role in Where’s Charley? (running through Sept. 25 at Goodspeed in East Haddam, Conneticut) a role popularized by tap dancer Ray Bolger back in 1948. “I like the word hoofer,” Racey says. “It’s been kind of taken aside by this idea that there are different kinds of tap dance. To me, hoofer is a dancer. Hoofer is somebody who uses their hoofs. And that’s how I like to use the word. I’m a hoofer. I tap dance, I do classical ballet, I do partnering, I do theater dance.” Read the complete story here.