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This year the Lansing High School will perform the musical production of “42nd Street”. The 43 high school cast members will tap their way through the show to the music played by the 14 musicians that compose the live orchestra pit. They will tap dance in dazzling costumes with spectacular sets and backdrops as they “Shuffle Off to Buffalo”. Based on the 1933 classic movie by Busby Berkeley, about a totally unknown chorus girl, Peggy Sawyer, played by Katie Bruno, taking over for the aging leading lady, Dorothy Brock, played by Veronica Palladino who breaks her ankle and can’t perform the day before the show is to open.

As in all fairy tale stories, the producer Julian Marsh, played by Adam Beckwith pushes Peggy to learn the lines, the dances and the songs in 36 hours. The ever-present romantic leading man, Billy Lawlor played by Andy Lockwood, has taken Peggy under his wing and together they save the show.

Many of the kids learned to tap dance this past summer at the able hands, or should we say feet, of Michelle Whitty, a 1998 Lansing graduate who performed in the International Touring Company of 42nd Street.

Another local talent, professional choreographer, Sarah Fazio, choreographs the show. Sarah has been choreographing the Lansing musical for the past 9 years. Many of the production numbers contain the actual steps of the Broadway performance. .

This performance is an incredibly ambitious undertaking by these high school kids but they will soothe you with the “Lullaby of Broadway” and excite you with those dancing feet on “42nd Street.”

The performances are March 7th and 8th at 6:30pm and March 9th and 10th at 7:30pm.

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