- This event has passed.
Singin’ in the Rain | Sept 27 – 29
September 27 & September 29
Starring Gene Kelly, Donald O’Connor and Debbie Reynolds
Experience this delightful classic from Hollywood’s golden era of movie musicals on The Strand’s enormous 30′ screen in true digital HD and 39 speaker surround-sound!
A silent film star falls for a chorus girl just as he and his jealous screen partner are trying to make the difficult transition to talking pictures in 1920s Hollywood.
Gene Kelly was a taskmaster with Debbie Reynolds, who had never danced to this degree before rehearsals started. Fred Astaire, who was in an adjacent dance studio, found her crying under a piano and reassured her that all of her hard work was worth the effort.
For the “Make ’em Laugh” number, Gene Kelly asked Donald O’Connor to revive a trick he had done as a young dancer: running up a wall and completing a somersault. The number was so physically taxing that O’Connor, who smoked four packs of cigarettes a day at the time, ended up in a hospital bed for a week after its completion. He suffered from exhaustion and painful carpet burns. Unfortunately, an accident ruined all of the initial footage, so after a brief rest O’Connor agreed to do the difficult number all over again.
Singin’ in the Rain
Friday & Saturday, September 27 & 28, 7:30pm
Sunday, September 29, 2:00pm
1952 | Unrated | 1Hr, 43Min