WHAT: On the Town (1949) on DCP **Frank Sinatra Centennial Event**
WHEN: December 10, 2015 7:30 PM (Doors open at 6:45 PM)
WHERE: Pickwick Theatre, Park Ridge, IL
WHAT ELSE: Organist Jay Warren will perform prelude music from 7:15-7:30 PM.
Radio Host Steve Darnall will be our guest to discuss the music of Frank Sinatra.
We will have a prize drawing for the new Sinatra documentary, All Or Nothing At All.
Also screening: Warner Bros. cartoon “Swooner Crooner” (1944)
HOW MUCH: $10/$7 seniors, $8/$6 (advance tickets at main box office or online)
“We did try to make it, in a sense, somewhat more realistic than other musicals. It had a freer form to it, and it had the energy and youthfulness of the sailors in New York… Also, I think it had more musical numbers that came out of situations in the story than was usually the case.” ~ director Stanley Donen
Doing away with much of Leonard Bernstein’s original score, MGM’s movie version of the hit stage show still offers energetc Betty Comden/Adolph Green songs and the joyous “New York, New York.” For their first full directorial assignment, Stanley Donen and Gene Kelly take it to the streets in this (unheard of in its day), on-location musical. Kelly, Frank Sinatra, and Jules Munshin are three sailors yearning to see every sight, especially those in skirts, while on a twenty-four hour leave in New York City. Kelly is smitten by the subway’s “Miss Turnstiles” (Vera Ellen), Ann Miller gets Munshin, and Betty Garrett’s man-hungry hack carries away Sinatra– literally!
