CLARKSVILLE, TN – The Emmy Award-winning 1970s Saturday morning cartoon series that taught history, grammar, math and more through clever, catchy tunes is lighting up the stage of Clarksville’s oldest professional theatre this month.
Schoolhouse Rock Live! opens at the Roxy Regional Theatre on Friday, Jan. 21, at 8 p.m. In keeping with the theatre’s pay-what-you-can opening night tradition, all tickets not pre-sold at the regular price will go on sale at 7:30 p.m. for a $5 minimum donation.
Brian Best stars as Tom, a nerve-wracked schoolteacher who is apprehensive about his first day of teaching. When he tries to relax by watching TV, various characters representing facets of his personality emerge from the set and show him how to win his students over with imagination and music, through such songs as “Just a Bill,” “Unpack Your Adjectives,” “Lolly, Lolly, Lolly” and “Conjunction Junction.”
Directed and choreographed by Ryan Bowie, with additional choreography by Emily Rourke and music direction and piano accompaniment by Tyler Saunders, Schoolhouse Rock Live! also features Kayla Brandt, Matthew Combs, Hayden Gilbreath, David Graham, Chloe LaMar and Emily Rourke.
Performances run Jan. 21 through Feb. 5 on Thursdays at 7 p.m. and Fridays and Saturdays at 8 p.m., with 2 p.m. matinees on Saturday, Jan. 29, and Saturday, Feb. 5.
Tickets are $35 (adults) and $15 (10 and under) and may be reserved online at www.roxyregionaltheatre.org, by phone at (931) 645-7699, or at the theatre during regular box office hours (9 a.m. to 2 p.m., Monday through Friday, and one hour prior to curtain).
The Roxy Regional Theatre is at 100 Franklin St. For more, visit www.roxyregionaltheatre.org.