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To: Old Sarge
Wow! Riverdance! Got room for one more? The Balcony and binoculars is the best place to be. You can see everything. This is one I'd like to see.


222 posted on 09/03/2003 2:17:56 PM PDT by Kathy in Alaska (God Bless America and Our Troops Who Protect Her!)
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To: Kathy in Alaska
And, here's some trivia even I didn't know:

Largest shoe size (male): 11
Smallest shoe size worn by a dancer: 3 1/2
Number of red heads: 3
162 pairs of dance shoes are used in the show with 3,132 inches of shoelaces!
Each Irish dancer goes through 10 pairs of shoes a year.
The Irish dancers have 494 years of step-dancing training between them.
There are on average 10 hours of rehearsals a week.
It has been estimated that there are approximately 10,000 individual steps in the show per dancer!
The Physiotherapist uses 32 rolls of self-grip tape each week.
15,000 pounds of dry ice is used in the show each month.
6 trucks with 260 road boxes are used to transport the show.
The wardrobe department is responsible for 685 costumes, and 800 individual costume accessories.
Shin splints are the most common injury.
The cast consumes 25 gallons of Gatorade and 25 5-gallon water bottles each week.
Chocolate is definitely the favorite backstage snack with 40lbs of chocolate and candy consumed per week.

Guess it takes a LOT of chocolate to feed an Irish Dance Company...

227 posted on 09/03/2003 3:27:24 PM PDT by Old Sarge (Serving You... on Operation Noble Eagle!)
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