THEATRE

Music by Nacio Herb Brown
Lyrics by Arthur Freed
Book by Betty Comden & Adolph Green

Directed by Mary-Liz Murray
Musical Direction by Chris Roppola
Choreography by Matt Parello

Don Lockwood is a silent film star with humble roots as a musician, dancer and stunt man. Don barely tolerates his vapid leading lady, Lina Lamont, who is convinced that their screen romance is real. After the first talking picture, The Jazz Singer, proves to be a smash hit, the head of the studio, R. F. Simpson, decides he has no choice but to convert the new Lockwood and Lamont film, The Dueling Cavalier, into a talkie. The production is beset with difficulties, by far the worst being Lina's comically grating voice.