For the final show on 2005, we decided to try at our hand once more into the musical theaater side (a previous HSC outing included a run of The Fantasticks) with a celebration of the amazing music of George and Ira Gershwin. Our director Michell Wilson adapted several of their numbers written from the 1920's to the 1940's into an hour long story that traced the trails and tribulations of 4 couples as they meet, fall in love, fall out of love and then come back together. Told in two acts, the first act featured the singers in traditional tie and tails numbers with such songs as "Swanee",
Nice Work If You Can Get it" & "Summertime" and the second act in everyday outfits with songs as "The Man That Got Away", "Embraceable You", & "Someone To Watch Over Me"
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Above the featured couples (Left to right Keri Beth, Logan Yost, Andrew Low, Sarah Labonte, Steven Incammicia, Abigail Diers, Andy Jacobs, and Jillyn McKittrick, Sarah Labonte) appear in a PR still taken at Shetler Studios in New York.
Above, the company performs one of the opening numbers, "I've Got Rythem" displaying the boundless energy of falling in love. Kenilworth Public Library, Kenilworth, NJ
Above, Sarah Labonte belts out a sultry rendition of "Summertime". Kenilworth Public LIbrary, Kenilworth, NJ
As the couples break up and go their separate ways at the end of the first act, they perform "Let's Call The Whole Thing Off". Kenilworth Public Library, Kenilworth, NJ
Jillyn McKittrick performs the brassy and longing "The Man That Got Away"
As the couples renite the company performs the final number of a reprise of "I've Got Rythem" Kenilworth Public Library, Kenilworth, NJ
As the second act opens, the couples go their separate ways with "I've Got Pletny of Nuthin" Kenilworth Public Library, Kenilworth, NJ
