Blue Boy the Hog at The Hi-Pointe Saturday Morning – STATE FAIR

“Biggest boar in the world, I bet!”

The Missouri State Fair has been in Sedalia since 1901. I’ve lived in Missouri all of my life, but have never attended even though I grew up with a pet hog named Blue Boy! I made that last part up but, I did once judge a pickle-canning contest. Okay, I made that up too, but Iowa seems to have the most all-American State Fair and you can attend it vicariously this Saturday morning when the 1945 classic musical STATE FAIR screens at St. Louis’ Hi-Pointe Theater as part of their Classic Film Series.

STATE FAIR is the story of an average all-American family on the way to their state fair, with games and rides, cotton candy and candied apples, contests for baking, livestock, etc., and a lot of fun and angst too. The music by Rodgers and Hammerstein is just great, including the Oscar-winning song, “It Might As Well Be Spring” sung by Jeanne Crain, who made many a man’s heart go a-twitter back in the day, I tell ya! At the fair, she meets Dana Andrews. Dick Haymes is her brother who meets singer Vivian Blaine, and Charles Winninger and Fay Bainter are their parents. A state fair hook-up hoedown! Don’t miss it!

Now you’ll have the chance to see STATE FAIR in all of its big screen glory when it screens this Saturday morning (July 12^th) at St. Louis’ fabulous Hi-Pointe Theater (1005 McCausland Ave., St. Louis, MO). The movie starts at 10:30am and admission is only $5.

Check out this sneak peek musical number from STATE FAIR:

The Hi-Pointe’s site can be found HERE

http://hi-pointetheatre.com/