
The Martha’s Vineyard Regional High School Minnesingers pay tribute to great stage musicals this weekend, with a pair of concerts at the performing arts center titled The Joint is Jumpin’.
Along with songs from contemporary hit musicals such as Frozen, Wicked and The Greatest Showman, the 25-member choir will sing and dance to favorites from Guys and Dolls, the Sound of Music, A Chorus Line and other 20th-century Broadway classics.
Sacred and traditional music, including spirituals from the U.S. and the Bahamas, are also on the program, which varies somewhat between Saturday’s 7 p.m. performance and Sunday’s 2 p.m. matinee.
On Saturday, Hydee Turner and Georgia DeRoche will be the soloists in For Good, from Wicked, while Sunday’s show will feature Lulu White and Josephine Powers.
In the spiritual All My Trials, Naomi Winters will solo Saturday and Chloe Cook Sunday.
The Saturday performance will include Children Will Listen, from Stephen Sondheim’s Into the Woods, with Ms. White soloing.
Also on Saturday, Aedan Coogan will be featured in Maybe This Time, from Cabaret, and Ken J. Christie will sing a classical aria, Caro mio ben.
Sunday’s concert will spotlight Jhennifer Silva in Debussy’s Nuit d’Etoiles; an Aiden Weiland-Zyler Flanders duet in Lily’s Eyes, from The Secret Garden; and Josephine Powers singing If I Loved You, from Carousel.
Both programs also will feature the traditional return of Minnesingers alumni, who will join the current chorus on stage to sing a contemporary Jewish choral work and a setting of a Civil War poem.
The chorus is directed by Abigail Chandler, a former Minnesinger herself, and choreographed by show business veteran Kenny Romero. Nancy Rogers is the accompanist and costumes are by Roxy White.
All ticket sales will be at the door prior to show time. The Martha’s Vineyard Performing Arts Center is located at 100 Edgartown-Vineyard Haven Road in Oak Bluffs.