Beck Center Presents Bugsy Malone and Budding to Blossoming

Fri 5/13-Sun 5/15

The 1976 musical comedy film Bugsy Malone was a cute twist on gangster films: it featured child actors playing adult roles, including Jodie Foster, the same year she made a splash playing a child prostitute in Taxi Driver. It was written and directed by Allen Parker with music by Paul Williams (“We’ve Only Just Begun,” “Rainy Days and Mondays,” “An Old Fashioned Love Song.”

They later adapted the play for the stage, which debuted in 1983. With its cheerful music and clean story line, it’s ideal for youth theaters. And Beck Center for the Arts is currently presenting it through Sunday May 15 in its Senney Theater. Sarah Clare, Beck’s Associate Director of Theater Education, is handled direction and choreography.

“At the end of the show the characters reflect on the choices they have made, and how they could have chosen a different path,” she says. “One of the main reasons for doing this show was to ultimately have a fun time and get to be silly characters. But another, even more important, reason is the chance to have conversations with our students, about who they want to be, and how their choices lead to who they become.”

The show runs  Friday and Saturday at 7:30pm and Sunday at 3pm. Tickets are $12 for adults, $10 for 18 and under. Go here to get them.

While you’re there, check out the Budding to Blossoming 2022 Visual Arts Display, featuring the 95 works by 42 Beck students, along with four group projects from Beck offsite programs in the Lakewood pubic schools, in the Jean Bulicek Galleria (watercolor by Carol Hunt, above).

 

 

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