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Due to a successful run in August, Broadway Songbook VII will return to the stage Sept. 10 and 11, according to Theater and Dance instructor Richard Kuller.

The musical revue is a product of the Summer Triple-Threat workshop, an intensive, eight-week course taught by Kuller.

Kuller said it was the first time a production from the 7-year-old, acting-singing-dancing course has called for a repeat fall performance.

The revue will feature 14 singer-actor-dancers, as well as an eight-piece chamber orchestra, he said. The show’s musical director is Performing Arts instructor Glenn Carlos.

“Broadway Songbook will focus on shows adapted from classic literary works [and] songs by Rodgers and Hart, Cole Porter and Rodgers and Hammerstein, [to name just a few],” Kuller said.

“We’re particularly having fun with Shakespeare’s plays,” said Kuller, ” [and] showing how they were transformed into modern shows like Kiss Me Kate and West Side Story.”

Some songs will be performed satirically or in surprising contexts, Kuller said. Preparation for the revue was “challenging for [the] students and will be enlightening and great fun for the audience,” he said.

Kyle Luck, music instructor and director of bands, saw the show in August and praised Kuller’s direction. He said the music revue’s combination of entertainment and education was “absolutely fabulous.”

In particular, Luck found the performance of the “Jet Song” from West Side Story — utilizing characters from Romeo and Juliet — was “most ingenious.”

President Mark Rocha, who also saw an August show, said the professional quality of the production had been “most impressive” and the show was “not to be missed.”

The encore performances will be held in PCC’s The Little Theater, in Building C, Room 106, and are scheduled for Sept. 10, at 2 p.m. and 8:30 p.m., and Sept. 11, at 2:30 p.m.

Tickets are $10 for general audience and $5 for PCC students, staff and senior citizens.

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