Jaz Flowers set to take on role in Hot Shoe Shuffle at Lyric Theatre Performers Jaz Flowers and Bobby Fox are lead characters in Hot Shoe Shuffle. WHEN Jaz Flowers scored a part in Hot Shoe Shuffle, learning her lines wasn't much of a stretch - she's been watching the tap-dancing musical since she was four. The now 25-year-old, whose big break was Tracy Turnblad in the 2011 season of Hairspray, plays April in a new production of the award-winning musical, opening at The Lyric on Saturday. I saw it when I was four, the first show I ever saw, then a version of it in London was filmed and shown on pay-TV so my grandma made a cheeky recording on VHS and I just watched it every day. My brother and I would perform it in the loungeroom," she said. The cast of Hot Shoe Shuffle strut their stuff. Flowers performs opposite Jersey Boys star Bobby Fox in the show, which tells the story of a bunch of tap-dancing brothers trying to make it big in the 1940s. Hot Shoe Shuffle was created by David Atkins and Dein Perry - who went on to create Tap Dogs - and, after premiering here in 1992, became the first Aussie musical to make it big overseas, years before Tap Dogs or The Boy From Oz. Atkins is directing and performing and gave Flowers her break in Hairspray. This role needed someone with comic sense, who could sing the big ballads and be able to tap on stage as well as the boys. She's one of the few performers around who can do all those things," he said.