2010 Lyric at the Civic Center Closes 42ND STREET 7/24

Lyric Theatre is continuing its 2010 Lyric at the Civic Center Season with the Tony Award Winning Best Musical, 42nd Street, on July 20th-24th at the Civic Center Music Hall in downtown Oklahoma City.

Get caught up in the excitement of the young chorus girl Peggy Sawyer, who arrives on Broadway with wide eyes and high hopes. Set during the Depression Era, 42nd Street celebrates the romance and magic of show-biz with musical theater classics in the biggest musical extravaganza of the year.

Oklahoma's own local talent will be featured in this widely known musical. Lyric's summer showing of 42nd Street will be danced by students from Oklahoma City University, University of Oklahoma, University of Central Oklahoma as well as Edmond and Oklahoma City high school students.

42nd Street will be directed and choreographed by Oklahoma resident, Lyn Cramer. Lyn has been a teacher and choreographer for three decades, and also a Weitzenhoffer Endowed Professor of Musical Theatre Dance at the University of Oklahoma. She was named the 2005 Irene and Julian J. Rothbaum Presidential Professor of Excellence in the Arts for the Weitzenhoffer Family College of Fine Arts. In 2004, Cramer was also honored with the Chicago National Association of Dance Masters Artistic Achievement Award. Lyn's Lyric credits include Cabaret, Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat, Smokey Joe's Cafe, Urinetown, Nine, Aida, Five Guys Named Moe, A Chorus Line and West Side Story.

Lyndy Franklin, playing Peggy Sawyer, started her professional career at Lyric Theatre of Oklahoma and graduated from Oklahoma City University in Dance Performance while in Oklahoma. Her favorite credits include Broadway's The Little Mermaid and A Chorus Line. Lyndy's national tours include Irving Berlin's White Christmas and Fosse as well as New York City's Radio City Music Hall Christmas Spectacular.

Playing the up and coming Broadway director, Julian Marsh, is Dan Sharkey. Dan's Broadway and national tour credits include The Music Man directed by Susam Stroman, Grand Hotel, directed by Tommy Tune, Showboat directed by Harold Prince, The Sound of Music with Marie Osmond, Seven Brides for Seven Brothers directed by Scott Swartz and Will Rogers Follies. Dan's Off-Broadway credits include Plain and Fancy, Lone Star Love and Captains Courageous. Dan is returning to Lyric after performing the role of Officer Lockstock in the 2008 production of Urinetown.

Barb Schoenhofer is playing the prima donna, Dorothy Brock, in Lyric's production of 42nd Street. You may recognize Barb from the 2010 Lyric at the Civic Center opening show of Pump Boys and Dinettes as the spunky Rhetta Cupp, one of the Double Cupp café sisters. She has performed in four national touring productions and her past Lyric Theatre performances include Anytime Annie in 42nd Street, Crystal in Little Shop of Horror, and was a featured singer in Swing!.

Lyric at the Civic Center 2010 season Title Sponsor is Chesapeake Energy Corporation. Presenting Sponsor is The Oklahoman, with additional season support provided by American Airlines, Kirkpatrick Foundation, Inasmuch Foundation, Allied Arts, the Oklahoma Arts Council, and Braum's Ice Cream and Dairy Stores. 42nd Street is sponsored by MidFirst Bank, BancFirst, American Fidelity Group, Coppermark Bank and Ryan Whaley Coldiron Shandy PLLC.

Single tickets for 42nd Street range from $29 to $66. Performances are on Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday and Saturday nights at 8:00 p.m. and Saturday afternoon at 2:00 p.m. To purchase tickets go to www.lyrictheatreokc.com, call (405) 524-9312, come by Lyric Theatre's ticket office located on 1727 NW 16 St., Oklahoma City, Okla, or call the Civic Center Box office at (405) 297-2264 or 1-800-364-7111.

Lyric will continue to produce its annual summer season at the Civic Center Music Hall in downtown Oklahoma City with the closing show Buddy-The Buddy Story on August 3rd-7th.

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