Schoolhouse Rock Live!, the musical based on the popular ’70s ABC-network cartoon series, will be presented by Performance Riverside on May 6, 2006.   Schoolhouse Rock, a series of three-minute Saturday morning lessons on grammar, civics, science, and math, ran from 1973-1985 and returned in 1994 with new installments.   This Emmy Award-winning cartoon taught us through clever, tuneful songs like “Conjunction Junction” and “Just a Bill.”

An interesting group of characters visits Tom, who is nervous about a big day at school.  Through imagination, music and such beloved “Schoolhouse Rock” songs as “Figure Eight” and “Interplanet Janet,” they help Tom to conquer his fears and to realize just how much he really knows.  Both children just discovering the TV series and  “Generation X-ers” seeking a taste of nostalgia will delight in this sure-fire entertainment that’s simply good, clean – and educational – fun.

Schoolhouse Rock Live! is directed and choreographed by Performance Riverside’s Jennifer Young Lawson, and is musically directed by Gregory Nabours.  The multi-talented cast includes John LaLonde and Victor Hernandez (Harold Hill and Marcellus from Performance Riverside’s February production of The Music Man), Andrea Beemer McGuire of Redlands, RCC Norco student Matthew Saunders, and voice teacher Jennifer Wilcove of Covina. 

The Landis Performing Arts Center is located at Riverside Community College’s City Campus at 4800 Magnolia Avenue. Reserved seating tickets for Schoolhouse Rock Live!  on May 6 at 2pm are $19, $14, and $11, with general admission tickets available for only $10. Specially discounted weekday morning shows are available on May 3, 4, and 5.   For more information, call the Landis Box Office at 951-222-8100.