Cars filled every inch of the parking lots at Paper Mill Playhouse on Thursday, spilling out into a gravel clearing down the street, thanks to the excitement surrounding its latest show.
But the party officially started when nine senior citizens in stretch pants and tracksuits got loose to some hip-hop beats. They didn't have rap songs when they were young, but they would shake it, shake it anyway -- just as long as they didn't break it, break it.
In the musical, "Half Time," the latest Paper Mill show expected to make the leap to Broadway, veterans of the Great White Way play members of an all-senior hip-hop dance team from New Jersey.