A meal, a play, a Broadway cabaret

Three community events are planned at Pomfret School for the weekend of February 22-24

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Nearly forty students will perform in Pomfret School's winter musical, City of Angels, on the weekend of February 22-24.

POMFRET, CT (02/18/2013)(readMedia)-- The weekend of Friday February 22 - 24 will be a busy weekend at Pomfret School. On Friday and Saturday evenings February 22 - 23, the curtain will go up on the winter musical City of Angels at 8:00 PM in Hard Auditorium. There will also be a Sunday matinée on the 24th at 2:00 PM.

The annual Empty Bowls supper-and-a-play fundraiser, an event organized by members of the Arts faculty, has been scheduled for Saturday, February 23rd, at 5:30 PM. The Empty Bowls project is an international grass-roots movement whose goal is to raise awareness, at local levels, of hunger worldwide. At Pomfret, Empty Bowls night is a homemade-handmade group effort. Faculty and parents prepare the soups and breads. The bowls the meals are served in are made by students in art teacher Kathi Yokum's ceramics studio, and are meant to be taken home. The cost for Empty Bowls is $12 for adults and $7 for children 12 and under. According to Ms. Yokum, in the past five years the school has raised nearly $7000 for local food pantries.

Also on Saturday at 7:00 PM in the Jahn Reading Room, members of Pomfret's chorus and the Griff Tones singing groups will perform a cabaret-style selection of songs at "Broadway Nights." There is no charge, although a donation is welcome; and money raised will contribute to the costs of next month's performance tour in Ireland, led by Director of Music Charles Houmard.

The winter musical is the award-winning City of Angels. According to Chair of the Arts Department and Theatre Director Chip Lamb, the production boasts a cast and crew of nearly forty students "who have immersed themselves in the world of a Hollywood screenwriter desperately trying to remain true to his own artistic vision. Written in 1989 and set in the 1940s, City of Angels is both the title of the musical and the film that is being written by Stine, an idealistic screenwriter. At first dazzled by the glamour of Hollywood, Stine quickly realizes that he is losing control-both of his creation and his personal life. What makes City of Angels so rewarding," says Lamb, "is the sensational score by celebrated Broadway composer Cy Coleman." City of Angels is free and open to the public.