Barry Williams may be more than 50 years his youngest competitor’s senior on “Dancing With the Stars,” but he puts time, dedication and energy into his performances week after week — and they’re paying off.
Throughout the show, Williams has linked his career experiences to his dances every week. In one episode when he danced a jazz number, he shared a story about working with the choreographer and director Bob Fosse on the musical “Pippin.” When he danced to “I’m Still Standing” by Elton John in the latest episode, he said John was his favorite singer, and he “pulled every string I could” to meet the performer at the Hollywood Bowl in 1973.
MarketWatch: During this week’s episode, you mentioned doing this for an entire generation. Could you expand on that for me, please? What did you mean? So I wanted to speak to that generation, my generation, and explain that taking on a challenge that might be bigger than you think you can handle is a good thing to do, because however somebody sees their own challenge, there can be great, great rewards. So I was talking about this being that for me, and having fulfilled dreams.
She choreographs to that and using all of the technique of strict ballroom dancing, and then we look at it as the characters and the story we want to express and to interpret through the music. That’s my wheelhouse, as acting, as characters. So there is drama and a real sense of energy being exchanged between the two of us, and that seems to have been a pretty good formula.
It requires a great deal of preparation, of rehearsal, of patience, and I think it goes back to the same things I learned during “The Brady Bunch” when I was 14 years old. It has to do with being there on time, coming in with a good attitude and being prepared.MarketWatch: You work very hard, but what does retirement look like — and mean — to you?
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