Everyone Loves a Musical! Musical Movie Mondays

Who doesn't love a musical? The Berman Center for the Performing Arts begins a multi-year film series celebrating Broadway Musicals that have been turned into films! Musical Movie Mondays are evenings filled with nostalgia and a chance to see the classics on the big screen again.

Be a part of of all the musical memories.
MY FAIR LADY – October 14 at 7:30 pm
At one time the longest-running Broadway musical, My Fair Lady was adapted by Alan Jay Lerner and Frederick Loewe from the George Bernard Shaw comedy Pygmalion. Outside Covent Garden on a rainy evening in 1912, dishevelled cockney flower girl Eliza Doolittle (Audrey Hepburn) meets linguistic expert Henry Higgins (Rex Harrison). After delivering a musical tirade against "verbal class distinction," Higgins tells his companion Colonel Pickering (Wilfred Hyde-White) that, within six months, he could transform Eliza into a proper lady, simply by teaching her proper English.

WEST SIDE STORY – December 16 at 7:30 pm
A 1961 American musical film directed by Robert Wise and Jerome Robbins. inspired by William Shakespeare's play Romeo and Juliet. It stars Natalie Wood, Richard Beymer, Russ Tamblyn, Rita Moreno and George Chakiris The film won ten Academy Awards in its eleven nominated categories, including Best Picture, as well as a special award for Robbins. West Side Story holds the distinction of having won more Academy Awards than any other musical film