PENSACOLA — Pensacola State College’s 26th annual Summer High School Onstage Workshop, or SHOW, features 33 local high school students in the musical comedy, “Crazy for You,” July 22-24 and July 29-31.
Friday and Saturday performances are 7:30 p.m.; Sunday performances are 2:30 p.m. at the Ashmore Fine Arts Auditorium, Building 8, on the Pensacola campus.
“Crazy for You,” winner of the 1992 Tony Award for Best Musical, is a classic Gershwin blend of music, laughter, dancing, sentiment and showmanship. The story revolves around a banker with a yen for show business who is sent to foreclose on a theatre. After falling in love with the local postmistress, he decides to put on a show to save the theatre, and riotous entertainment ensues.
The cast features students from these high schools: Catholic — Michael Tobias; Florida Virtual — Cristina Fabbro; Gulf Breeze — Emma Chestney, Sophia Holston, John McLeod and Pepper Rice; Interlochen Arts — Emily Chaney; Milton — Alyssa Allen; Navarre — Kathan Brannon, Aden Burkhardt, Benjamin Maxey, Kirsten Rude and Jessica Wright; Pace — Ava Fitzgerald, Veronica Lindholm, Emily Lipford, Ethan Price and Gage Rodgers; Pensacola Christian — Mischel Johnson; Pensacola — Madison Payne and Olivia Whitner; Tate — Delaney Beal, Troy Craig and Mallory Nelson; Washington — DeAngelo Beasley, Laura Connally, Delaney Dean, Afton Fagan, Emma Jensen and Ashley Johnston; and West Florida — Amaris Ball, Kismet Dunkerley and Paige Hurst.
The production team includes Rodney Whatley, director; Margie Timmons, associate director; Bob Gandrup, technical director; Ben Drennan, music director; Michael Dennis, choreographer; and Tammy Chaney, costumer.
SHOW is a tuition-free theatre program for high school students offered by PSC each summer since 1991.
All tickets cost $16 and are available 8:30 a.m. to 4 p.m. Mondays through Thursdays at http://lyceum.pensacolastate.edu/tickets-information/ and at the Lyceum Box Office, Building 8, Room 861, and one hour before each performance.
Call the Lyceum Box Office, 484-1847, for ticket reservations and information.
This article originally appeared on Santa Rosa Press Gazette: Santa Rosa, Escambia residents star in ‘Crazy for You’