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Free summer movie fun at JCCC

05/09/11

Story by Peggy Graham

Free summer movie fun at JCCC

Kiss Me Kate movie poster Gigi movie poster Bye Bye Birdie movie poster West Side Story movie poster

OVERLAND PARK, Kan. — The Performing Arts Series will once again offer four free vintage movie musicals at 10 a.m. Wednesday, June 8-29, in Yardley Hall of the Carlsen Center, Johnson County Community College. No tickets or reservations are required.

  • June 8 — Kiss Me Kate (Turner/MGM, 1953) Kathryn Grayson, Howard Keel and Ann Miller
  • June 15 — Gigi (Turner/MGM, 1958) Leslie Caron, Maurice Chevalier, Louis Jourdan
  • June 22 — Bye Bye Birdie (Columbia Pictures, 1963) Janet Leigh, Dick Van Dyke, Ann-Margret
  • June 29 — West Side Story (United Artists, 1961) Natalie Wood, George Chakiris, Russ Tamblyn, Rita Moreno, Richard Beymer

Free reserved parking will be in the Carlsen Center west garage. Coffee and pastry will be available for purchase before the film begins in Encore! Espresso in the Carlsen Center. Also, Café Tempo in the Nerman Museum of Contemporary Art is open for lunch, creating a fun movie-and-lunch outing.

For information, call the PAS box office, 913-469-4445.

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