Students from the Edmonds Homeschool Resource Center will flex their acting muscles tonight with their production of the musical, “Dames at Sea.” The show opens tonight and runs two consecutive weekends.
A spoof of the campy, nostalgic Hollywood movie musicals of the 1930s, “Dames at Sea” has a familiar storyline. A show has to close because the theatre is being torn down. The performers have no place to dance, and the ingénue has no place to become a star. Just in time, the solution sails into view — the aging star of the show is friendly with the captain of a battleship, and all she has to do is convince him to let the actors put on the show on the ship. Amidst song-and-dance numbers, hilarity ensues.
The show, with music by Jim Wise, and book and lyrics by George Haimsohn and Robin Miller, originally starred Bernadette Peters as the sweet and naive ingénue, Ruby.
Edmonds Homeschool Resource Center is a K-12 homeschool resource center that operates as an alternative school in the Edmonds School District. “Dames at Sea,” directed by Shileah Corey and choreographed by Gabe Corey, involves a cast of 30 young actors, ages 14 to 18.
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