Show History

History

Inspiration

Do You Wanna Dance? is a '90s-themed jukebox musical, featuring such well-known songs as "Dancing in the Streets," "Bust a Move," "How Sweet It Is" and "Walking on Sunshine." It is the first Jukebox Jr. Musical created by WOW!Entertanment in conjunction with Dallas Summer Musicals Academy of Performing Arts. Both authors, Mark Brymer and John Jacobson, are veterans at creating and producing theatre for children.

Productions

Dallas Summer Musicals Academy of Performing Arts, in partnership with local live-show production company, WOW! Entertainment, Inc., presented Do You Wanna Dance? This production was directed by Steven Kavner (Peabody Award-winning producer and DSM Academy instructor) and produced by the Dallas Summer Musicals Academy of Performing Arts. 

Trivia

  • John Jacobson, a co-author of Do You Wanna Dance?, has become a YouTube sensation and is known to many as the “Double Dream Hands Guy."