The HIGH CALL CHOIR
presents GUYS & DOLLS Junior:
Guys and Dolls is a musical based on a book by Jo Swerling and Abe Burrows with music and lyrics by Frank Loesser. It is based on "The Idyll of Miss Sarah Brown" and "Blood Pressure", which are two short stories by Damon Runyon. The show premiered on Broadway in 1950, where it ran for 1,200 performances and won the Tony Award for Best Musical. The musical has had several Broadway and London revivals, as well as a 1955 film adaptation starring Marlon Brando, Jean Simmons, Frank Sinatra and Vivian Blaine. Guys and Dolls was selected as the winner of the 1951 Pulitzer Prize for Drama.
Set in Depression-era Times Square, Guys and Dolls is about a couple of big city gamblers and the women who love them. It tells the overlapping stories of high-roller Sky Masterson, who falls in love with mission worker Sarah Brown, and lovable Nathan Detroit, engaged for 14 years to Miss Adelaide, a headliner at the Hot Box Club. Nathan runs a famous floating crap game, and an ongoing plot line involves his quest for a safe place for the game as Adelaide continues her quest to convince him to marry her. Meanwhile, Sarah, mistakenly believing that Sky set up an illegal game at the mission, tries to fight her affection for the charismatic character. In the end, love conquers all and a story of redemption unfolds!
The JOYFUL SOUNDS CHOIR
presents FROZEN Junior:
FROZEN is a musical fantasy film produced by Walt Disney Animation Studios and released by Walt Disney Pictures. The movie premiered in Hollywood, California, on November 27, 2013. It was met with tremendous praise; some film critics consider Frozen to be the best Disney animated feature film since the studio's renaissance era. The film achieved significant commercial success, earning $1.276 billion in worldwide box office revenue, including $400 million in the United States. Frozen won two Academy Awards for Best Animated Feature and Best Original Song, "Let It Go”.
FROZEN is inspired by Hans Christian Andersen's fairy tale "The Snow Queen". It tells the timeless tale of two sisters, pulled apart by a mysterious secret. One sister is a fearless princess who sets off on a journey alongside a rugged iceman, his loyal reindeer, and a naive snowman to find her estranged sister, whose icy powers have inadvertently trapped their kingdom in eternal winter. Both sisters are searching for love. They just don't know where to find it.
The HIGH CALL SENIORS
present INTO THE WOODS - a MEDLEY:
INTO THE WOODS is a musical with music and lyrics by Stephen Sondheim and book by James Lapine. The musical intertwines the plots of several Brothers Grimm and Charles Perrault fairy tales, exploring the consequences of the characters' wishes and quests. The main characters are taken from "Little Red Riding Hood", "Jack and the Beanstalk", "Rapunzel", and "Cinderella", as well as others. The musical is tied together by a story involving a childless baker and his wife and their quest to begin a family (the original beginning of The Grimm Brothers' "Rapunzel"), their interaction with a witch who has placed a curse on them, and their interaction with other storybook characters during their journey.
The musical debuted in San Diego in 1986 and premiered on Broadway on November 5, 1987, where it won several Tony Awards, including Best Score, Best Book, and Best Actress in a Musical, in a year dominated by The Phantom of the Opera (1988). A Disney film adaptation of INTO THE WOODS was directed by Rob Marshall was released in 2014. The film grossed over $213 million worldwide, and received three Academy Award nominations.
