Choir/Staff Musical Extravaganza February 9 and 10

Marilyn Putney, putneym@gmail.com

'Heavenly Bandstand' rocks Gunn High School!

Celebrate Valentine’s Day with an evening of young love, lots of laughs and the music that continues to fill the best American Pie ever created. Parents and students don’t want to miss this original musical extravaganza ‘Heavenly Bandstand’ at Spangenberg Theatre, presented two nights only, Tuesday, February 9, and Wednesday February 10, starring the Gunn High School Choirs, the JLS and Terman Middle School Choirs, and 50 of your favorite Gunn staff.

The show begins at 8:00 p.m. and tickets are $15 for adults and $10 for students. You may buy tickets online at www.gunnchoir.org, or purchase them in the Gunn Student Activities Center starting February 1st.

Get out your poodle skirts and hair cream and prepare to stroll, mash potato and doo wop your way down memory lane. Our heroine, high school senior Annette, has fallen asleep in English class. In her dream, she is visited by Johnny Angel, who is desperate to leave his celestial home and return, one more time, to the Top Forty. But in order to make it back to earth, he will have to compete on Heavenly Bandstand. Hosted by none-other-than Dick Clark, the competition features the holiest music of the 50s and Johnny’s rivals include the King Himself, Elvis. Join the fun, as Johnny battles for his place on the charts, Annette searches for true love, and the rest of us once again savor the sweet taste of American Pie.

The show is directed by William Liberatore, Gunn’s own choir director who is also one of the Bay Area’s premier musical directors. His work has been seen at TheaterWorks, American Musical Theatre of San Jose, and Symphony Silicon Valley. The script is written by Nancy Hersage, who is the winner of five national playwriting awards and whose work has been produced in the U.S., Europe and Africa.