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The final weekend of “On the Town,” the spring musical by students of the Academy of Visual and Performing Arts, opens Friday night at 8.
The Culver City High School production concludes Saturday with stagings at 2 and 8 in the Robert Frost Auditorium, 4401 Elenda St.
On the Town is a musical with book and lyrics by Betty Comden and Adolph Green, and music by Leonard Bernstein, based on Jerome Robbins’s idea for his 1944 ballet Fancy Free, which he had set to Bernstein’s music. The musical introduced several popular and classic songs, among them “New York, New York,” “Lonely Town,” “I Can Cook, Too,” (for which Bernstein also wrote the lyrics), and “Some Other Time.”
On the Town was first produced on Broadway in 1944 and was made into a film in 1949, although the film replaced all but three of the original Broadway songs with Hollywood-written substitutes.
With the pomp and fanfare of New York City, the brassy lyricism of Bernstein, and the sweet immediacy of a day of freedom during a time of war, On the Town is an American classic, beloved both for its moment in history and for its timeless qualities of youth and exuberance. The show follows the adventures of three sailors on leave for just 24 hours in the great city of New York before heading off to battle in World War II. Goofy ladies’ man Ozzie is looking for a date – maybe seven or eight. Studious, innocent Chip, guidebook in hand, has several days’ worth of tourist attractions to check off his list. But when idealistic Gabey falls for the photograph of lovely Miss Turnstiles, a subway beauty queen, they all join in an ambitious scavenger hunt around the city to locate his dream girl — and, on the way, find all of the romance, adventure, and New York atmosphere they could wish for.
Tickets are available and at the box office before each performance.
- $15 for adults
- $10 for seniors, School District staff and high school students
- $5 for Culver High students with ASB cards and Middle School students
- Children in elementary school and younger will be admitted for free with an accompanying adult.
See avpa.org
