The Westminster College Celebrity Series will continue with Wonderful Town, Monday, April 16, at 8 p.m. at Orr Auditorium.

"The musical is about two sisters, Ruth and Eileen Sherwood, from Columbus, Ohio, who go to Greenwich Village in New York in the 1930s in search of careers and, maybe, love, and end up conquering Manhattan," said Gene DeCaprio, director of the Westminster College Celebrity Series. "The wide-eyed sisters share all sorts of comic misadventures. Leonard Bernstein's pop score overflows with great melody and a joyful vitality. The witty lyrics are by Broadway greats Comden and Green and there are lots of high energy dance numbers (the show won a Tony for Choreography in 2003). The show won great critical acclaim in a Broadway revival with Brooke Shields.

"The show is an homage to the great city of New York and is a reflection of the time when Broadway musicals were meant to be brilliant light entertainment. Wonderful Town is vintage Broadway effervescence served with class and pizzazz that everyone will enjoy."

Good seats are still available. Contact Connie McGinnis, assistant director of the Westminster College Celebrity Series, at (724) 946-7354 or e-mail mcginnis@westminster.edu or visit www.westminster.edu/celebrity for more information.

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