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Találkozunk st. louisban. The grand finale was beyond grand! WHAT ARE PEOPLE SAYING ABOUT CFA's PRODUCTION OF MEET ME IN ST. LOUIS? We recently received this wonderful review from a local resident & businessman: "What a performance this past weekend! I was astonished by the young people's confidence and skill in both the songs and their roles. The costumes... wow! Where did you find all those fabulous period outfits? The scenery was first class. The orchestra, literally a bunch of professionals. We really, really enjoyed the show, o... bviously the product of a lot of hard work and dedication from a lot of good people. CFA theater is one of the North Country's cultural touchstones. Thank you so much. " Feel free to leave a review here on our page if you saw the show! A big thank you to all who supported the students in any way. ? ? ? And don't forget to follow us on Instagram: See More NOT TO SOUND DRAMATIC, BUT THIS MUSICAL IS A MUST SEE! Tonight is the final show. Take your kids or your grandkids! Take your grandma and her friends! They will be humming "Meet Me in St. Louis" for days ? Tickets available at (or at the door) Comment below if you’ve taken part in a past CFA production. Share a favorite memory! # cfamusicals Our concession stand will be open before the show and during intermission! There will be coffee, drinks, sweet and savory snacks. Don’t forget a special flower or two for those hard-working performers. We will also have T-shirts available for those who loved the show. The Meet Me in St. Louis concession stand is a fundraiser to help continue great musicals like this one. Thank you for your support!... *Don’t have cash? Don’t worry! We’ve got you covered... debit and credit accepted ? ? ? See More EVERYONE! Tune in this morning to B 99. 3 at 8:45am to hear Tootie, Esther, and their Director- Darlene! The interview will be aired again tomorrow on WPDM after the noon news. Don’t miss it ? ? ? # cfamusicals TODAY IS THURSDAY! OPENING NIGHT IS HERE ALREADY! Check out this fun little interview with: Darlene Sinclair, Director... Lael Card, Esther Smith & Claire Paladin, “Tootie” See More HELP THIS VIDEO REACH 50 SHARES FOR THE CAST OF MEET ME IN ST. LOUIS! The show is May 2, 3, & 4th at 7pm at Christian Fellowship Center (the old Madrid school building near the golf course). Bring your kids, your grandkids, and your boss. Bring your neighbors, your friends, and your cousins. See you there! ? ? ? Come watch the musical performance of Meet Me In St. Louis! May 2, 3 and 4th at the Old Elementary School Building in Madrid. 7pm ? Tickets are $5 & $10.... See More Students at CFA have been busy doing more than just running lines, singing, and dancing. They have also been painting sets, fundraising, publicizing, creating artwork, and editing photos & videos. Enjoy this Meet Me in St. Louis teaser put together by Conor, grade 10. If you like it, share it! Get your tickets now: Come enjoy the CFA high school performance of Meet Me In St. Louis! May 2, 3, and 4 at 7pm. All details and to buy tickets go to: Instagram Post by Meet Me in St. Louis ? April 22, 2019 at 08:12AM PDT via Long Distance Phone Call James Meyers, grade 10. A man usually don't express his emotions in any way. I guess it's something natural, exceptions exists of course but when a man like me listen Judy's amazing voice and sees her beauty, it's impossible to don't get emotional. Meet Me in St. Louis is a great musical. The Harvey Girls and The Wizard of Oz are great musicals too but this movie, this Trolley Perhaps is the nostalgia, the feeling of being in love with this beautiful lady miss Garland or just the fact of being alive to appreciate the wonderful art of the Metro Goldwyn Mayer Dream Team. Minnelli, Freed, Astor, Garland, Ralph, Martin, the Crew and Sally Benson's stories. A man usually don't express his emotions in any way but this my eyes red.

"Just when St. Louis was going to be the center of attention of the entire universe... " Clang, clang, clang went the trolley Ding, ding, ding went the bell Zing, zing, zing went my heartstrings As we started for Huntington Dell. ? "The Trolley Song" A classic 1944 musical adapted from the stories of Sally Benson, Meet Me in St. Louis was directed by Vincente Minnelli and starred his future wife, Judy Garland. It follows the lives of the Smith family, who live in St. Louis during the turn of the century. In particular, it follows the second-eldest daughter, Esther, her youngest sister Tootie, and Esther's crush, John. Everyone is excited with the coming of the 1904 World's fair; however, that all changes when Mr. Smith announces that the family might be uprooted to New York. A Screen-to-Stage Adaptation went to Broadway in 1989. This film features examples of: Adorably Precocious Child: Tootie is only five and has a strange obsession with play-acting that her dolls die of fatal diseases and holding funerals for them. She also apparently buries them in the cemetery. Adorkable: Esther's crush, John Truitt. He's an exceptionally nice and well-mannered young man, but he tends to be a bit awkward, or accidentally put his foot in his mouth. His first time alone with Esther, he compliments her perfume, and when she tells him what it is, he remarks "Exactly the kind my grandmother uses! " When they shake hands as he's leaving, his awkward parting words are, "You've got a mighty strong grip, for a girl! " All There in the Manual: According to the script (and a line at the Winter Ball), Grandpa's last name is Prophater, making him Anna's father and not Alonso's. Aluminum Christmas Trees: Alonso makes reference to a baseball team called the Baltimore Orioles. They weren't Major League in 1903, but they were a AAA team. They'd become Major League in 1954. Ambiguous Innocence: Tootie and Agnes, the youngest of the Smith family, certainly qualify. When Katie, the family's cook, tells Agnes that she kicked her cat down the cellar stairs, Agnes cries, "If you've killed her, I'll kill you! I'll stab you to death in your sleep and tie you to two wild horses 'til you're pulled apart! " It's obvious that she would never actually attempt this, but while she is a sweet and mostly ordinary girl, she seems to have a keen interest in gore and graphic violence, and it's rather troubling at times. She even hopes aloud that Rose got her a hunting knife for Christmas. Tootie, meanwhile, loves to play with her dolls like any normal child, but she also likes to say that they have "four fatal diseases" so that they can "die" and she can give them "beautiful funerals" and bury them in the graveyard. When Mr. Smith announces that they'll be moving, she comments, "It'll take a week to dig up all my dolls from the cemetery! " She also apparently has a plan to dig a tunnel into a neighbour's yard just so that she can grab her legs when she's walking past. Their mischievousness crosses into the territory of Enfant Terrible when they stuff a dress to make it look like a body and put it on the streetcar tracks to see what will happen. Tootie gets injured when Esther's crush, John, tries to hide her and Agnes from the police. Then Tootie even tries a Wounded Gazelle Gambit to get out of trouble, claiming that John tried to kill her. Even when the family discovers what really happened from Agnes, both the girls get off scot-free. Tootie doesn't even get punished for lying about John. Anguished Declaration of Love: Having finally made up his mind about his feelings for Rose, Warren decides to make them known by bursting into her house after midnight on Christmas morning and loudly declaring in front of her entire family that "We are to be married at the earliest opportunity and I don't want to hear any argument about it! " Rose is overjoyed, but doesn't get to say a single word in reply before Warren storms back out. Artistic Licence - Geography: Mountains can occasionally be seen in some shots. St Louis is on the prairie and does not have any mountains. "The Trolley Song" gives the World's Fair location as Huntington Park. It was actually Forest Park. Artistic Licence ? History: The film takes place in 1903 and opens with several characters singing the song "Meet Me in St Louis", which wasn't written until 1904. Tootie likewise sings a bit of the hymn "Brighten the Corner Where You Are", which wasn't written until 1913. John says that he and Esther are "almost" the legal age to marry without their parents' consent. They are seventeen, but in Missouri at the time, the marrying age was fifteen. Betty and Veronica: Subverted. While she certainly is "alluring and exotic", Lucille turns out to be a nice and mature person ? arguably the most mature of the group ? and lets Rose have Warren because she knows it's her he's interested in. It really doesn't hurt that Lucille herself is much more interested in Rose's brother Lon. Broken Tears: At Christmas, while Esther is singing "Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas", Tootie realizes how much she's going to miss St. Louis, and has a full-blown meltdown where she runs out of the house in tears and starts destroying all the snow people they had made, because she can't take them with her to New York. Christmas Songs: Introduced that standard, "Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas. " Cool Old Guy: Grandpa. He sings (and dances! ) along to "Meet Me In St. Louis", he's more cheerful and optimistic than his son, he knows how to comfort Esther when she doesn't have a date to the dance, he's fun-loving, gives the younger girls advice on how to make the flour stick to their trick-or-treat victims, and he is more tolerant and willing to humor his grandchildren than their father is. Costume Porn: A lot of lavish dresses, particularly on Esther and Rose. In the scene of the World's Fair, Agnes and Tootie get to be dressed up in plenty of frills and bows as well. Crappy Holidays: The Smiths' Christmas is under a pall due to the family's imminent move to New York. Ultimately subverted when Mr. Smith announces they're staying in St. Louis after all, followed by Warren proposing to Rose. Deadpan Snarker: Almost everybody gets some snark in at least once. Grandpa uses it very effectively to comment on the entire family keeping a secret from Mr. Smith alone: "Your papa's not supposed to know. It's enough we're letting him work hard every day to support the whole flock of us. He can't have everything. " Katie gets in on the Deadpan Snarker game frequently. (See Servile Snarker. ) Double Standard: Abuse, Female on Male: Subverted. Esther attacks John when she thinks he attacked Tootie. When she discovers Tootie lied, she's incredibly guilty and apologises, and John shows her all the injuries she caused. It's glossed over after that scene though. Fiery Redhead: Esther, with her reddish-blonde hair, is a bit tomboyish, very protective of her sisters (to the point of beating up her crush because she thought he hurt one of them) and very spirited. Fix Fic: In real life Sally Benson's family did move to New York, instead of the last minute change of heart depicted in the film. Girl Next Door: Inverted, as the girl is the main character and sings about "The Boy Next Door. " Halloween Episode: There's a whole Halloween scene for the "Autumn 1903" bit. Happily Married: Lon and Anna Smith, played by Leon Ames and Mary Astor. They share an incredibly lovely duet called "You and I" just to drive the point home. Have a Gay Old Time: The line Make the Yuletide gay, from "Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas". Hollywood Costuming: Although the costumes themselves are fairly accurate to the time period, Rose and Esther wear their hair down at a lot of social gatherings when girls of their age would surely have worn it up, as pretty much every other woman in the film does. Hypocritical Humor: Rose is not pleased with Esther drawing attention to her relationship with Warren by trying to make sure everybody's out of the room when he calls, and haughtily declares, "When you get to be my age, you'll realize that there are more important things in life than boys! " This becomes amusing in hindsight, as it becomes clear that Rose is by far the more boy-crazy one. She also claims she doesn't care about Warren's phone call, but then starts crying when it seems that she's missed it. Jerk with a Heart of Gold: Mr. Smith. He can be, as he puts it, "a little bombastic" when things aren't going his way. But it's also shown very clearly that he genuinely loves every member of his family, and this scene reveals what a softie he can be: Mr. Smith: Anna, I'm curious ? just when was I voted out of this family? Mrs. Smith: Oh, Lon, really now. Mr. Smith: What else am I to think? My eldest daughter is practically on her honeymoon and everybody knows about it but me! In view of this family's refusal to let me in on their little intrigues, I'll handle the telephone in my own way! From now on, I'll take all incoming calls! [telephone rings] [beat] Mr. Smith: …Rose, you answer that. Informed Poverty: Mr. Smith's income alone is apparently enough to support a family of seven (plus a cat), and pay for a live-in maid, in a house that's large by almost any standard, with enormous, luxurious rooms, good furniture, lots of decor, a large yard, etc. The family doesn't seem to want for anything, and doesn't appear to be struggling; they host parties, attend parties, wear good clothes, send the oldest to college, go to the St. Louis World's Fair, etc., without any implication that these expenses will cause financial difficulty. Yet, when Agnes asks why they wouldn't be living in a house in New York, Rose replies, " Rich people live in houses. People like us live in flats", implying that they're considered middle class at best. It's not clear if this discrepancy is because the creators just couldn't be bothered making them appear less well-off, or if it's a justified arti