The Grab Bag theater company pulls back the curtains on a musical in Redwood City Friday called Babes in Arms.
The performance is billed as a “jazzy Rodgers & Hart” Broadway musical set in Cape Cod and based on a script written by George Oppenheimer. The show’s plot promises romance, struggle, and a grab bag of vocal performances.
Executive Producer Nina Lozinski said the songs in the play are a great indicator of how varied the score in the show is, and a testament to the performers' vocal ranges.
“We have songs like Way Out West, which is something you’d see in a movie like Oklahoma,” Lozinski said.
“We also have My Funny Valentine which is a classic ballad, and the title piece of the show, which is a rousing rally cry… It’s a classic Broadway score that you don’t hear nowadays,” she said.
Lozinski is a senior at Menlo Atherton High School, where many of the other performers and theatre crew attend classes. The Grab Bag is a student-run theater company based in the San Francisco Bay Area that began providing opportunities for young performers in 2011. Most of the students involved in the company are from Redwood City, Menlo Park, Atherton, Woodside, and Portola Valley. This is its third full-scale musical show.
Babes in Arms is directed by Aliya Hasoon and Maddie Rostrami. Matthew Schertler is the show’s Vocal Director.
The roles of The Apprentices are played by Erin Wells and Alex Thayer, while Terry Thompson is portrayed by Eliza Gutiérrez-Dewar.
The show starts at 7 p.m. on Friday, May 24, 2013 at the Veterans Memorial Center Theater, located at 1455 Madison Avenue in Redwood City, California.
Additional performances will take place at 7 p.m. on May 25, at 6:30 p.m. on May 31st, and at 7 p.m. on June 1.
Tickets are $10 for adults and $5 for students and seniors.
Advance tickets can be purchased on the theatre’s website.
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