MTL will be 'Singin' in the Rain' through July 19
Music Theatre Louisville puts on Singin' in the Rain, the light-hearted celebration of the golden age of lavish musicals, at its new home at the Kentucky Center for the Arts' Bomhard Theatre. Performances run from July 10–19.
The stage musical-comedy version closely follows the 1952 film from which it's adapted. With the dawn of talking pictures in the early 1920s, movie studio mogul R.F. Simpson finds himself forced to release The Dueling Cavalier, which was to have been a silent movie, as a "talkie." One hitch: Ditzy leading lady Lina Lamont's comically high-pitched, grating voice just wasn't meant to be heard!
The crafty solution? Pretty and talented chorus girl Kathy Selden will dub for Lina. Hilarity ensues as the established starlet and the up-and-coming ingenue vie to best one another over the picture and over the movie's leading man, Don Lockwood, a popular silent film star and song-and-dance man.
Musical Theatre Louisville's production includes an onstage rainstorm, the snappy dialogue and the memorable score, including "Singin' in the Rain," "Make 'Em Laugh" and "All I Do Is Dream of You."
Tickets are available online, by calling (502) 584-7777 or by visiting the Kentucky Center's box office in person Monday through Saturday, 10 a.m. to 6 p.m., or Sunday, noon to 5 p.m. Or call (502) 498-2436 to buy a season subscription.
The stage version premiered in London's West End in 1983. The 1985 Broadway run of Singin' in the Rain won Tony Awards for Best Book of a Musical and Best Actor in a Musical. The American Film Institute ranks Singin' in the Rain as greatest movie musical of all time.
Posted by Ivonne Rovira
