Gossip has been running around for ages about the new show Colin Dunne and Jean Butler are doing together. FINALLY this past week (Sept. 9, 1999) we find out just what the show is all about!! Here I've collected excerpts from a few online newspaper articles I've found! Read on to find out just what the show Dancing On Dangerous Ground is all about!

To a score by Irish composer Seamus Egan, it will tell of the love of the warrior Diarmuid for the princess Grainne, one that has much in common with that of Lancelot for King Arthur's Queen Guinevere. Jean and Colin have recruited a company of over 30 dancers, actors and musicians, and a talented production team led by director Ian Judge, whose work will be familiar to patrons of English National Opera and the Royal Shakespeare Company.

If the posters mean anything, the show should live up to its promise. They show Jean and Colin, apparently naked, in a passionate clinch, his arm across her breast. "We are appearing on stage as Irish mythology's greatest lovers," says 31-year-old Colin with a smile. "So it would be quite hard to think that they got into that situation without taking their clothes off." Jean, now 28, says of the poster pose: "We are trying to attract not only the public who love Irish dance but also those who don't."

"The dance in Dancing on Dangerous Ground will be more free-form and sensual that that seen in more regimented shows like Riverdance and Lord of the Dance," Jean said.

Presented by Harvey Goldsmith, it will open at no less a venue than the Theatre Royal, Drury Lane, in November before moving to Radio City in New York next year and it promises to be "a new and dynamic Irish dance sensation".

Please visit the Celtic Cafe's site on DODG. That's where I got all this information from!

TO VISIT THE OFFICIAL SITE (which has some really spiffy graphics on the front page!) click here!