West Side Performing Arts Cooperative Cabaret Nights presents Play It Again Sam
June 4, 18, July 2, 16, 30, August 13, 27
$8
Casablanca, one of the best loved movies of all time. Humphrey Bogart and Ingrid Bergman, playing what was probably the most intense and beautiful roles of their careers. Remember Sam? Played by Arthur “Dooley” Wilson, who sang “As Time Goes By” in the performance that is remembered to this day, if only by the words, “Play it again, Sam.”?
Some of the most romantic scenes in the classic movies of the ’40s, ’50s and ’60s were staged in nightclubs and cabarets. That era when the music of Arlo Guthrie, Henry Mancini and Richard Rodgers blended in a jumbled feast of sentiment, passion and ideology.
Think back to those cuts from movie soundtracks that made it on to the musical stage and then to the radio where we listened to our favourite pieces over and over again.
This summer, West Side Performing Arts Cooperative is partnering with the Inverness County Centre for the Arts to produce Play It Again Sam, our version of a nightclub, every other Wednesday starting June 4th. With assistance from Inverness County and ECBC, we will fill the evenings with songs and music from As Time Goes By to What A Difference A Day Made, and mix it up with Guthrie’s “City of New Orleans” or the Beatles’ “Do You Want To Know A Secret”, then top it all off with Mancini’s “Moon River” or Rodgers and Hammerstein’s “If I Loved You”.
Join us at the Inverness County Centre for the Arts, in an old-time cabaret-style setting, with a cash bar and music to take you back to the most romantic era in history.