The Fall show is "Good
News!” a
hit 1920's musical. The score bubbles over with tunes such as Button
Up Your Overcoat, You’re the Cream in My Coffee,The
Best Things in Life are Free and The Varsity Drag,
the Charleston dance number that became a 1927 international craze.
Good
News is
a musical comedy which opened on Broadway in 1927, set on the
campus of the fictional "Tait
College". The book was by Buddy DeSylva and Laurence Schwab,
lyrics by DeSylva and Lew Brown, and music by Ray Henderson. Good
News is a jazzy, full-of-pep, razzamatazz that has the audience
in its grip from the moment the curtain goes up. And the songs?
Well,the fact that they include, You're the Cream in My Coffee,
The Varsity Drag,Life Is Just a Bowl of Cherries, Button
Up Your Overcoat and Keep Your Sunny Side Up should
give you an inkling of just how much there is in this gem of as
how. In the 1920s, football
reigns king on the fictional Tait University campus and Tait's
collegians are obsessed with their star football player, Tom Marlowe.Most
students will drop everything to watch him practice, to do something
toearn his favor, or to follow the latest chapter in his soap-opera
romance with the daughter of one of the school's wealthiest benefactors.
However, one girl seems oblivious to the football-mania: Connie
Lane, an intensely studious girl. Ironically, Connie is recruited
to help when Marlowe fails the astronomy final he needs pass to
in order to play in the big game Saturday. Soon the football star
and the tutor fall for each other, and the football coach and the
astronomy
professor rekindle their own college romance. Inevitably, these
couples' love can only survive if the team wins the big game.
We need
dancers, Actors, singers and football players. Just “click” on
the Auditions word at the top of the page and plan now to be
part of this great show!
Please
note, Children’s Theater of Winnetka
charges a Production Fee of $300. Scholarships are available. |