(1) Santa Monica College Theatre Student, Frida Appelkvist, 26, performs Spamalot's "Diva's Lament" during the Santa Monica Kiwanis clubs Luncheon on Wednesday, December 3, 2008, at the Santa Monica Family YMCA. (2) SMC Theatre Student Jordan Segal, 21, performs the 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee's, "I'm Not That Smart," during the luncheon. (3) SMC Theatre Students (left to right) Sara Slocum, 19, Kristina Darrow, 18, and Nathalie Touboul, 19, perform A...My Name Is Alice's "All the Pretty Young Men," on Wednesday. The musical pieces are  part of SMC's musical theatre workshop "How We Got Where We Are ," that is scheduled at 8 p.m. Friday and Saturday, Dec. 5 and 6, and at 2 p.m. Sunday, Dec. 7 in the Theatre Arts Studio Stage, located on the SMC main campus at 1900 Pico Blvd. Tickets are $10. The musical theatre workshop is a revue of numbers from a wide range of musicals that have been influenced by genres ranging from opera to vaudeville and from film to comic strips."We will be performing a wide range of numbers with an eye on the roots of the modern American musical," said Janie Jones, director. "Over the years, musicals have been influenced by opera and operetta, vaudeville, films, novels, comic strips, cartoon films, women's theater and more." Jones noted that the influence of opera - specifically, Puccini's "La Bohème" - is seen in "Rent," while vaudeville was a source material for "Thoroughly Modern Millie." Films, novels, comic strips, cartoon films and more were adapted for such musicals as "Spamalot," "Jekyll and Hyde," "The Wizard of Oz," "Wicked," "You're a Good Man, Charlie Brown," "The Little Mermaid" and "Aladdin." Current trends have been influenced by theater of diversity ("Avenue Q"), women's theater ("A. . . My Name is Alice"), and more, she said."All in all, the show should be a lot of fun," Jones said. The music director is Gary Gray and the pianist is Leigh Anne Gillespie. The cast is made up of 15 students. The SMC Musical Theatre Workshop performances.