over and over again.According to Mitchell, the show has been in production for a couple months, and that rehearsal time is relatively standard. The difference is the lack of a preview run. B

DALLAS -- Owner Mark Cuban defiantly disagrees with those who have declared the Dallas Mavericks season a lost cause and have suggested that tanking is in the franchises best interest.Haters gonna hate. We think that you always compete, Cuban said after finishing his pregame StairMaster routine Sunday night. If youre competing when the league is better, like it is this year, if you dont do well, youll be in a position to get a good pick. Which, remember, even if you have the worst record in the NBA, theres a 75 percent chance youre not going to get the top pick.The injury-ravaged Mavericks snapped an eight-game losing streak with Sundays 91-81 win win over the?New Orleans Pelicans but still have the leagues worst record (3-13). It was the teams longest losing streak during Cubans ownership tenure, which dates to January 2000.However, Cuban refuses to acknowledge that this is a rebuilding season for the Mavs, pointing out that Dallas is 5? games out of the Western Conferences eighth seed with the vast majority of the schedule remaining.Cuban, whose team has made the playoffs in all but one full season under his watch, is also adamant that accepting losing in an attempt to get the top pick in the draft is a poor franchise-building strategy.There are so many teams that became four years away from four years away because guys just learned how to lose, Cuban said. They stopped caring about any individual game and just got used to it, and you dont want guys developing those bad habits. We have so many young guys on this team, we want the games to mean something. Not to be, OK, who are we going to pull in the fourth quarter so we can lose this game? Thats not how teams develop good habits.The only way you overcome that is to have the ultimate superstar carry you through, and its tough to draft the ultimate superstar. I dont see any Shaqs or LeBrons or Tim Duncans in this draft, so I dont think thats the right way to do it. You just ignore the haters, let them bitch, and go about your business.Cuban did admit that there is a distinct possibility that the Mavs, who also rank last in the league in point differential, could try as hard as possible to win and still end up with a top pick. That might even be probable if Dirk Nowitzki, who continues to struggle with soreness in his right Achilles tendon and missed his 11th game of the season Sunday, cant get fully healthy and return to form.If the Mavs dont improve significantly, Cuban didnt rule out making future-minded trades before the deadline in February. But hes nowhere close to making that kind of determination in late November.Well play it by ear, Cuban said. The one thing you dont do is panic. The one thing you dont do is make any rushed judgments. You see what you have -- right? -- and thats exactly what well do, and well make determinations from there. If we just cant get healthy, that will tell us one thing. If we can and were just not any good, that will tell us another thing. If we can and we start rolling along and we think we can get a lot better, then that tells what we do there. You just dont know. The crazy thing you dont do is panic.Cuban laughed when he said that the Mavs would tank if they knew there were a few transcendent players in the draft. Yet he indicated that he was not as high on this draft class, which has been hyped as one of the best in years.This is not a race-to-the-bottom year, Cuban said. So we get every chance to be as good as we can be. The team that has the worst record has a 75 percent chance that they wont get the No. 1 pick. Thats not good odds. Youll get a top-three pick ... but theres no good reason to tank unless you think that theres three difference-makers. Not just All-Stars, but difference-makers.?Well see what happens across the course of the season to see if anybody emerges like that, but Im not panicking, not rushing to judgment, not pulling the plug -- pick a euphemism.Saad Yousuf of 103.3 FM ESPN in Dallas contributed to this report. Air Force 1 Homme Pas Cher . - The Washington Redskins have cut defensive lineman Adam Carriker and punter Sav Rocca. Air Max 97 Pas Cher Solde . Listen to the game live on TSN Radio 1050 at 7pm et. The Raptors traded Rudy Gay, Quincy Acy and Aaron Gray to the Sacramento Kings on Monday, in exchange for Greivis Vasquez, John Salmons, Patrick Patterson and Chuck Hayes. http://www.chaussurepascherchine.fr/grossiste-air-max-plus-tn.html . - Levi Browns tenure at left tackle for the Pittsburgh Steelers is over before it even began. Air Max 720 Pas Cher . Just as Montreal was settling into the first full working week of a new year, the Impact announced the appointment of their new head coach. Air Max 97 Femme Pas Cher . "It was nerve-wracking, but we pulled through," said Collaros, who threw four touchdown passes to lead the Toronto Argonauts (8-4) to a 33-27 win over the Calgary Stampeders (9-3) in front of 28,781 fans at McMahon Stadium. Kenny Leon is the Bill Belichick of musical directors. The lifelong Lakers fan might prefer a comparison to Phil Jackson, but the New England Patriots head honcho likeness seems a bit more fitting.Basketball teams cast just a few players on the court at a time, and everyone plays both offense and defense. Football teams are larger, requiring the precise orchestration of many, and the roles are complementary yet defined.With more than 50 cast members, Hairspray Live! meanders into pigskin-sport territory. Leon, who also directed NBCs The Wiz Live!, knows how to motivate a massive team in the direction of one universal goal.I have a saying: Everybody on the bed, or everybody on the floor, he said in a phone interview.That means either youre working toward a collective effort ... or youre not working.Hairspray Live!, which premieres on Wednesday at 8 p.m. EST on NBC, features an impressive lineup of stars, including Jennifer Hudson (playing Motormouth Maybelle), Ariana Grande (Penny Pingleton), Kristin Chenoweth (Velma Von Tussle) and Derek Hough (Corny Collins), all of whom will be working as one to ensure the shows success. The broadcast, with Grease: Live (Fox) and Peter Pan Live! (NBC), is the latest in a string of musicals televised on major networks in recent years.This small-screen version incorporates talent from other successful iterations of the musical and is led by executive producers Craig Zadan and Neil Meron, who produced the 2007 movie. They were joined by the original songwriters, Marc Shaiman and Scott Wittman, and the Broadway adaptations choreographer, Jerry Mitchell. Tony award winner Harvey Fierstein, who originated the role of Edna Turnblad in the Broadway production, came aboard to reprise the role. Also joining are stage veteran Ephraim Sykes (as Seaweed J. Stubbs), Dove Cameron (Amber Von Tussle) of the Disney Channels Liv and Maddie, Garrett Clayton (Link Larkin) and rookie Maddie Baillio (Tracy Turnblad).Based on the 1988 John Waters film Hairspray, which was adapted as a Broadway production that ran from 2002 to 2009 and further popularized by the 2007 New Line Cinema movie, the storyline has been captivating audiences for nearly three decades.The engaging plot, which is set in Baltimore circa 1962, tells the story of protagonist Tracy Turnblad, whose dream is to cut a rug on the all-white Corny Collins Show, a dance program loosely based on the real-life Buddy Deane Show. After getting on the show and gaining fame from the telecast, she sets her sights on diversifying the cast of performers. In the process, she befriends an African-American dancer named Seaweed, and they work together to fight racial justice and inequality and, finally, integrate the show.This story is set in the 60s, when integration dominated discourse, but the fight for racial equality is still present in cultural conversations today.When we did the movie over a decade ago, we felt like we were doing a period piece, Zadan said. Unfortunately, with whats going on in this country right now, [this project] feels contemporary.Sykes, who recently starred in the Broadway smash Hamilton and grew up singing in church, echoed Zadans sentiment.This is something God is calling on us to do, he said in a phone interview. This is the story he has put in front of us to tell because of what is happening.Although the cast boasts many household names and notable Broadway alumni often present the heartfelt scenes, it is newcomer Baillio who will steal the show.dddddddddddd After beating more than 1,000 hopefuls for the role of Tracy Turnblad in an open casting process, the Manhattan College sophomore from League City, Texas, is making this her first professional theater credit.Growing up, Baillio played softball, swam and tried out gymnastics, but she didnt naturally gravitate toward sports.I hated all of it, and I just wanted to sing, she said.As a result, her mother enrolled her in a local community theater as a child, and now shes leaping into the big leagues.Hairspray Live! features 18 sets and numerous costumes. Its high-flying, with upbeat choreography and music that brings out everyones smile. All of these things, while pleasant to watch, make the show challenging to perform.The actors and dancers have to move among all the sets in a matter of seconds. The farthest distance that needs to be traveled is the length of a football field. That isnt an easy sprint when just focusing on the workout -- never mind while performing wardrobe changes and then having to sing and dance.Its a little bit of theater, a little bit of film and a little bit of television, Leon said. Its the best of all of those. Its like the Super Bowl.Stamina was not so much a concern as a necessity, and it was something Leon and choreographer Mitchell drilled from the moment rehearsals began. All members of the company were encouraged to run and do cardio training on their own, in addition to practices. No one could get sick, and everyone had to be in fighting shape. Doctors and masseuses were on set to help the cast stay healthy and overcome injuries.At times, it is damn near impossible, Sykes said of the difficulty of the show. The way you learn how to do it and make it possible is by doing it over and over again.According to Mitchell, the show has been in production for a couple months, and that rehearsal time is relatively standard. The difference is the lack of a preview run. By the time a musical premieres on Broadway, the cast has performed it anywhere from 30 to 60 times in out-of-town previews. The Live! concept doesnt have that luxury.We are going to get four run-throughs, and then we have to go live, he said. So we really have to be on our game.Rehearsals were no walk in the park, either. If someone was late, missed a beat or a line, everyone (including Leon) dropped and did 20 pushups as punishment.When one person does something out of line, we all do, Leon said.Leon and Mitchell once ran the shows closing number, You Cant Stop the Beat, five times back-to-back. The way Leon tells it, Mitchell led them through the number while he was shouting in the background, I dont want to see you breathing.Its one of the hardest finales to sing and dance, Mitchell said. You are literally singing and dancing full-out for the eight minutes.With such a high-energy show, it is essential for the cast to stay nimble throughout the performance. Every morning, the crew is led through an athletic warm-up. They jog and do jumping jacks, burpees and more exercises focusing on stretching and dance.It breaks a sweat, gets you warmed up and ready for the day, Mitchell said.?You have what you have, and you cant get any players off waivers now, Leon said. Weve got to do it. ' ' '