The Freed Center for the Performing Arts on the campus of Ohio Northern University has announced seven performances of 42nd Street, a 1980 stage musical based on Busby Berkley's 1933 film starring Ruby Keeler. Performances will take place in the 551-seat proscenium theatre on the following dates:

April 9, 2022, 7:30 p.m.
April 10, 2022, 2 p.m.
April 21-23, 2022, 7:30 p.m.
April 23-24, 2022, 2 p.m.

Story and songs: 42nd Street tells the story of aspiring chorus girl Peggy Sawyer from Allentown, Pa. At the height of the Great Depression, she lands her first big job in the ensemble of a glitzy, new Broadway show. When leading lady Dorothy Brock breaks her ankle and can’t go on, the director Julian Marsh asks Peggy to step in and tap her way into history. The score features many Broadway standards, including "You're Getting To Be A Habit With Me," "Dames," "We're In the Money," "Lullaby of Broadway," "Shuffle Off to Buffalo" and "Forty-Second Street.

Music by Harry Warren, Lyrics by Al Dubin, Book by Michael Stewart & Mark Bramble. Based on the Novel by Bradford Ropes

Directed by Kristen Upchurch. Choreographed by Prof. Amanda Fannon-Wischmeyer, BFA ‘11

Underwritten by Quest Federal Credit Union