Cinematic treasure

As the Auburn Schine Theater struggles on the path to restoration, the students of Herman Avenue Elementary School's Chorus will try to speed the process along by stirring up Auburn's memories of the building.

For its spring concert, “Once Upon a Schine,” the chorus has collected several songs from films shown during the theater's heyday in the 1930s through the '70s. Selections such as “Somewhere Over the Rainbow,” “Singin' in the Rain” and “The Sound of Music” will be sung as pictures of the building in all its glory are shown during the breaks in between.

“Somewhere around the millennium it occurred to me that all the kids have no idea what went on in the decades before now,” said Susan May, the chorus director.