What better way to warm up than singing along with songs from the movie Grease or attend a family-friendly fun musical? Young Auditorium is offering two such shows this weekend, one at no charge.
Sing-A-Long Grease show
Sing-a-long-a Grease will be presented at the Young Auditorium on Saturday, Jan. 25 with two screenings – one at 2 p.m. and one at 7 p.m. This is a free event, but tickets are required for entry to the show. The Young Auditorium is located at 930 W. Main Street in Whitewater.
Sing-a-Long-a Grease is being brought to audiences by the same company that has toured the last 13 years around the globe visiting almost every major venue with Sing-a-Long-a Sound of Music. This brand new sing-a-long version of the classic film
Grease will have the audience singing and dancing along to the lyrics on the movie screen. Every performance starts with a Sing-a-long-a host who warms up the audience, trains them how to “hand-jive”, deploy the contents of their free goodie bags and heckle in all the right places as well as judge the costume competition. It’s a chance to become a T-Bird or Pink Lady for the night and enter the costume competition.
The show’s producer, Ben Freedman, states, “Audiences have been asking for this show since we first presented a sing-along show back in 1999. Sing-a-long-a Grease is much more than ‘just a movie.’ It’s an event, an interactive experience and the most fun you can have with your clothes on.”
Sing-a-long Greasers should be decked out in their own versions of fifties high school garb worn at Rydell High, including poodle skirts and saddle shoes, black leather biker and powder-pink bomber jackets, chiffon scarves and skinny ties. Costumes are most definitely encouraged, and singing is mandatory.
Meet Junie B. Jones
The Young Auditorium’s Horizons Family Series is bringing the musical Junie B. Jones to delight audiences on Sunday, Jan. 26 at 3 p.m. Ticket prices range from $9.50-$15.50. The show is an hour long and recommended for audience members age 5 and up.
Outspoken, precocious, lovable Junie B. Jones stars in a colorful, funny, fast-paced musical about new friends, new glasses, sugar cookies, the annual kickball tournament, and other various first-grade angst-ridden situations.
The Marcy Heisler and Zina Goldrich musical is based on four volumes in Barbara Park’s Junie B. Jones series of books, illustrated by Denise Brunkus and published by Random House. The show was nominated in 2006 for the Lucille Lortel Awards for Outstanding Musical and Outstanding Choreography.
Theatreworks USA is America’s largest and most prolific professional not-for-profit theatre for young and family audiences. Since 1961, Theatreworks USA has enlightened, entertained, and instructed over 72 million people in 49 states and Canada, now performing for about four million people annually.
Every year, the company tours approximately 16 shows from its ever-growing repertoire of 115 plays and musicals. It is the only children’s theatre to receive both a Drama Desk and a Lucille Lortel Award. In addition, Theatreworks USA was the recipient of a 2001 Jonathan Larson Performing Arts Foundation Award, and in May 2000, The Actors Fund of American bestowed its Medal of Honor upon its founders, Jay Harnick and Charles Hull.
For more information about the shows or to purchase tickets, visit www.uww.edu/YoungAuditorium. Tickets can also be reserved in person or by calling the Greenhill Center Box Office at (262) 472-2222.
The box office is located in the University of Wisconsin-Whitewater College of Arts and Communication building, adjacent to the Young Auditorium.
