Sat 6/4 @ 7:30PM
Sun 6/5 @ 2PM
The news these days can really get you down. Even if you aren’t one of those people glued to your news feed, you can’t help hearing about things such as the recent mass shootings of grocery shoppers and school kids.
To cope sometimes you just need to get your head in a different place for a while, and The Musical Theater Project is offering you a chance to do that. They’re finally (!) back to live performances with “Optimistic Voices,” which will have two performances at the Solon Center for the Arts.
The presentation revolves around those uplifting tunes from stage and movie musicals, the ones that have you leaving the theater humming joyously with a spring in your step: tunes such as “Tomorrow” from Annie, “Open a New Window,” from Mame, “Let’s Face the Music and Dance,” which introduced the team of Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers in the 1936 film Follow the Fleet, and the jazz classic “On the Sunny Side of the Street,” popularized by Louis Armstrong.
TMTP’s artistic director Bill Rudman will be joined by his usual sidekick Nancy Maier, and vocalists Tina D. Stump and Fabio Polanco for a program of songs and storytelling. General admission tickets are $35.
musicaltheaterproject.org/event/optimistic-voices/