Video: Ben Is Pinball Wizard with Choreo from THE WHO'S TOMMY

Hello, you big beautiful Broadway world. It's me, your Broadway buddy, Ben Cameron

Back again with yet another electrifying episode of Dance Captain Dance Attack

All right, I'm going to level with you. This is a big deal to me. As you can see by the t-shirt, I am fortunate enough to be wearing

Today, I'm learning choreography from the current hip revival of The Who's Tommy, which I very recently saw, and it melted my face right off my body

I think it's maybe my favorite thing I've seen in a very, very long time

And I love the show. I'm a big Tommy nerd, so help me keep my composure during this because I'm just going to geek out

To learn the steps from this incredible show, I brought the dance captain from the Who's Tommy on

Broadway D Tomasetta! Yay! Hi! Oh my gosh, congratulations on the show

I can't overstate it enough how much I loved it. I am obviously way too excited. I'm about to lose my mind

So are you ready to join me having a... Should we like leap into this

Dance, tap. All right. Shall we do it? Let's do it. Let's do it

So this is Pinball Wizard. This is our big dance fray. Frank, we just dance an entire number

The first little sequence is kind of like this, but we're gonna get through it together

We got this. So we're gonna go, Charleston, one, a two, a three, a four, a five, a six

Okay, upper body, you're gonna go. One, a two, a three, a four

five, a six. Okay, flip, so, so, so, so. One, a two, a three, a four, a five, a six

It's a little quicker, but let's, we'll go up a hair. Six, seven, eight, all, one, all two, three

a four, a five, oh six, work. Yeah. One more time faster

Oh, it's faster. It's faster. Good Lord. Six seven eight oh a two a three a four a five a six perfect That was it You ready to be put in the shell You going to jump from here Seven eight

Nice big volleyball jump. Yeah, seven, eight. From there, you're going to dive

One, two. One, two, there you go. And then we're going to run three, four

Three, four. This is a pun already. Yay. One, two, three. Four. Yeah

From here, it's more of a feeling. We call these a zacks. You're gonna go, a zap, zack, zapp, whatever you want

So three, four, a five, a six. Ooh, okay. Zzzzzz. One, go, go

Yeah, perfect. Yeah, that was it. So we jump three, four, a zap, zap, zap

And I think for the last one, and neutral, the next moment's gonna be a shockup. Okay

A three, four, a five, a six. We're gonna shock from our heels up

A seven. Seven. Yep. Eight. One more jump, I lied. One, two

So we just jumped one, lose our focus. Two, we're gonna go back, back, punch

Yeah. Oh, cool. And you should feel like a transform. Almost. Yeah

One, two, a three, and four. Nice. From there, you're gonna lose your focus

Focus, five, laser beam, six and eight. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah

Okay, from here, we have one more little jumping section. She's springing it on me

Sprang the springs on me, Dee. Okay, so six and eight. You're gonna actually use that leg to come up

and we're gonna go back on the diagonal. Great. So we go, five, six, and

And you're gonna jump and one and two. Oh my gosh. You got it

Easy for you a second. And one and two. Yes, you don't have to say that. Woo

It's right, one, one. You got it, you got it. From there, in one and two

you're gonna do a little barrel turn and then this is like the combo, so just no, it's a grand finale. Okay

A one a two you gonna barrel Three of four Okay three of four This is kind of like halloo moment Five Five Six a

Six, uh. Seven. Seven. Down eight. Eight. Then you're gonna pancake and flip on the one

And then we go into like, just like, total like slow-mo, surrendering

Tommy Walker comes down on the, in slow motion, the ensemble, separate

and Tom comes down on the big hero pinball machine. And we're like, we're never gonna be as good as you, Tommy

You are, I'm fine. And that's a good. That's fun. That is the jumpiest dance captain dance set combo I've ever done

We're honored. We're honored to share it. We're honored to hold that distinction

of the jumpiest combo your animal series. All right, let's do a little chat

Show me your favorite warm up stretch. Oh, my favorite warm up stretch? Yeah

Did I already a little chat about big dance? Okay. What's my favorite warm-up

I don't know. I like to do like a little yoga for. Oh, fantastic, let's yoga

Okay, let's take a breath. Let's breathe. So, Dee, this is your first time

any times dance cap today? This is my third time. Third time? Yeah

Okay, great. And what is it about your temperament, your skill set, your personality

your training that you think benefited you in kind of tackling a task this enormous. And let's talk in ourselves

it's enormous. Okay, not me trying to like move and answer the question at the same time

Yeah. Through my history, what I think has been helpful? Yeah, or what is it about you? Like, what do you focus on a value that makes you an effective

dance captain? Obviously you're great at it, they want you to do it. I think that I, I think my like strengths as

a dance captain as like an associate is that I'm able to make sure that the intention and what

the choreographer director wants and creative team wants that's like the especially for tommy

like the storytelling is so important. And so for me it's my job to make sure that that is like

that here It not about like jumping high It not about shaking your face Not about all the turns Like our show is so special and I think I do a really good job at making sure that it always about what the message And like through our movement and our singing

and our dancing and our acting, like that is like the most important

So like, yeah, as a dance actor. This is structured in a way that no other musicals

is structured in that there is not stopped for book scene. It is musically driven from the downbeat to the last chord. Totally

So all of that storytelling is done through movement. Yes. So tell us about creating and figuring out using the ensemble outside of, yes, we're the

storytelling chorus here, but then also utilizing this kind of space age situation that

move the set around. It's all very manual. Yeah. So we have the option to use automation

And our creative team was like, no, like we want Tommy now in 2024 to be reimagined

that like, we. are creating Tommy World. We are creating every single time a set pieces on and is moved by actors

And so I think it's pretty special that like not only we're like you know dancing and seeing our faces off

but we're also like a very big part of like the atmosphere that we're creating in the show

All right. Shall we do it? Shall we have a dance counter, dance a time

Come! And now you have a dance captain dance attack

My friends, give it up for Dee Thomas Seda, dance captain for the Hoots Tommy

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Rock on because you just like me a pinballress. Yeah! Yeah