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Izzo Goes to Broadway
From Sports Illustrated:
"Izzo unwound from the stress of the Final Four in a most unorthodox way. Less than two weeks after the championship game, Greg Ganakas, a New York City theater director, showed up in Izzo’s office and informed him that he would have to start memorizing lines, working on dance moves, learning to sing. Ganakas, son of former Michigan State basketball coach Gus Ganakas, demanded that Izzo rehearse four hours a day for 10 days to prepare for the musical Izzo Goes to Broadway. Izzo had agreed in September to do the show at Michigan State’s Wharton center to benefit the American Cancer Society, but he thought he was just going to walk across a stage and shake some hands. "He was so committed to it” Ganakas says.
"No,” Izzo says, "I was asking myself, ‘what the frick am I doing?’ "
On May 6, Izzo took the stage with family members, players and a hand full of Broadway stars. He did not flub a line, and the sell out crowd of 2,400 cheered for six minutes at the end
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"Izzo unwound from the stress of the Final Four in a most unorthodox way. Less than two weeks after the championship game, Greg Ganakas, a New York City theater director, showed up in Izzo’s office and informed him that he would have to start memorizing lines, working on dance moves, learning to sing. Ganakas, son of former Michigan State basketball coach Gus Ganakas, demanded that Izzo rehearse four hours a day for 10 days to prepare for the musical Izzo Goes to Broadway. Izzo had agreed in September to do the show at Michigan State’s Wharton center to benefit the American Cancer Society, but he thought he was just going to walk across a stage and shake some hands. "He was so committed to it” Ganakas says.
"No,” Izzo says, "I was asking myself, ‘what the frick am I doing?’ "
On May 6, Izzo took the stage with family members, players and a hand full of Broadway stars. He did not flub a line, and the sell out crowd of 2,400 cheered for six minutes at the end
read sports illustrated article >
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