Actors outside the Mayfair Theatre with Dunedin Mayor Sophie Barker are (from left) Lily Jones, Miller Crooks, Jack Martin, Lucy McDermott, Jasmine McPherson and Madeline Hage-Sleiman. PHOTO: GERARD O'BRIEN
Dunedin Mayor Sophie Barker came dressed for the event and had been set to arrive in style in an 1920s open-topped car.
But, unfortunately, the rain last night led to that plan being abandoned, although the mayor still had on her glad rags.
A cast and crew numbering about 75 students have been rehearsing since the start of the year.
The musical, which features the songs of siblings George and Ira Gershwin, is set in the Prohibition era in the United States (1920-33) and follows a playboy who falls for a bootlegger.
