Dancing to ‘boomer’ tunes

Girls in neon pink tutus with fake blonde hair extensions flutter past Lucille Ball, who’s having a conversation with Belle and a couple of space-age divas.

Nope, not Lagunatics, but that would be a close guess.

Linda Haylett’s youth dance classes are gearing up for their next recital.

The kids range from age 3 to 12. Their Wednesday professional photo session was a cacophony of visuals.

Bright neon ‘70s clowns. Marie Antoinette-inspired pink tulle. Judy Jetson silver lamé. Dreamgirls.

Haylett, a legend at the perennially popular Lagunatics annual roast and revue, teaches kids as young as 18 months at Miss Linda’s Castle.

“We have a whole family involved in this show,” Haylett said proudly, ushering over a mother dressed as Ball and a bevy of youngsters — including two boys in dapper tuxedo costumes.

Donna Gee will join her children in the show; Haylett’s dance for moms has them all dressed as Lucy, dancing with cans of Spam.

Gee said her last dance experience was disco and two-step at happy hour, preceded by the usual intro to tap and ballet classes in school, as well as a short stint learning Spanish dancing.

She praised Haylett for being flexible with her schedule to make it possible for her and other moms to take part in the classes.

“She made it work,” she said.

Four of her five kids take part in Haylett’s classes; daughter Danielle also takes dance, but now in another program at Thurston Middle School. She helps out at recitals, though.

This is her son Ethan’s first recital, so he was busy adjusting every costume just so, and practicing his leaps in a corner of the gym.

“He’s just loving it,” Gee said. “He’s a totally different person since starting with Miss Linda.”

She’s so sold that her daughter Vanessa doesn’t even attend preschool.

“Miss Linda is her preschool,” she said. “She doesn’t just teach dance.”

Her children have learned singing, etiquette and a dash of confidence too, she said.

Vanessa will sing in Jet Screamer’s “hit” 1962 song “Eep Op Ork Ah Ah” from the Jetsons, as well as a scat-style verse composed by another class mom, who’s a professional singer.

“She just throws it together, Miss Linda,” Gee said.

Haylett created a “Beauty and the Beast” segment before she knew that Laguna Beach High School was working on its own smash version.

In addition to the evergreen “Be Our Guest,” the young candlesticks will dance to “The Heat Is On.”

Catarina Jacobs, 6, pranced around in a gold lame outfit, practicing her candlestick number.

She said it’s her favorite costume to date, and that the costumes are her favorite part of Miss Linda’s Castle.

Catarina started with Haylett when she was just 3 years old, working with puppets and learning basic dance routines.

“She gave them a really good foundation, and she makes it fun,” Catarina’s mother Christine Fugate said.

“She captures their attention, and then she’s able to captivate them.”

Haylett’s daughter Vanessa Schneller was the unsuspecting star of the photo session, as she dressed for the occasion as Belle.

“Is that the real Belle?” one child tentatively whispered.

Another just started screaming, terrified that the Beast would appear at any moment.

But nearly all of them wanted their pictures taken with her.

Schneller, studying for her master’s in dance education at New York University, said she learned everything from her mother and wants to follow in her dance steps.

“I treat them as actors, instead of having them copy what I do,” Schneller said of her young charges.

She spends her summers with Haylett, teaching classes in her own “New York Castle” program and choreographing Lagunatics.

She’s also helping her mom put the final touches on the recital, having arrived in town Tuesday from New York.

“She comes and she saves my show,” Haylett said.

Everyone — from her daughter to her class parents — emphasized Haylett’s fun-loving, spontaneous attitude, which she spreads to her kids.

The mother and daughter duo cracked up when a tiny girl in a Judy Jetson costume asked, “Do you think if I go to space I can wear this outfit? I can get a helmet and a jetpack — it’ll be fun.”