The Light Opera group of the Negev's Singin' in the Rain is as pleasant and carefree a production as LOGON has ever given.

Superb is not an exaggeration for the imaginative, tasteful, supple and varied movements, gestures and poses director-choreographer Rosa Howden dreamed up for her cast of all ages and abilities.

Originally a film, Singin' in the Rain is a Hollywood love triangle set in the roaring

Twenties. Its glistening art deco costumes by Melanie Lombard and modest sets by Yardena Alkan accurately recreate the flapper era between silent films and talkies.

Leading man (Stephen Howden) makes the transformation to talkies, frog-voiced leading lady

(Victoria Howden) does not, and a demure rising starlet (Eden Marcus) comes between them.

The rain drops sparkled most for the supporting cast.

Dov Landzbaum sang like a song bird and jumped like a bean.

Yamima Osher (as a gossip columnist) had the elocution to command a premiere. And new-comer Ryan Friedland created a fastidious-fuddy-duddy silent film director with all the pretension and artsy comedy of Broadway.

A nine piece pit band was effectively supplemented by a synthesized symphonic sound track designed by music director David Waldman.

The blend worked as did all the technical details of production; amplification, lighting and staging.