Expect Dancing Fireworks in Surflight’s ‘Flashdance’

The second mainstage musical of Surflight Theatre’s 2019 season is “Flashdance,” which will run through July 14.

There’s a theme of movies about very unlikely characters striving to become professional dancers and, against all odds, succeeding. In 1983’s “Staying Alive,” John Travolta’s Italian homeboy Tony Manero of 1977’s “Saturday Night Fever” has left Brooklyn for Manhattan, attempting to become a Broadway hoofer.