If you like the music of Rodgers and Hammerstein — and even if you don’t or are unfamiliar with them — you will still have a great time at the production of “A Grand Night for Singing” from the Actors’ Summit, a Knight Arts grantee.

The musical revue/play is the brainchild of Walter Bobbie, and enjoyed considerable success on and off Broadway, earning a few award nominations along the way. Never mind that, though. That’s just interesting musical history. The focus for us is the version that director Mary Jo Alexander has brought to the main stage in Greystone Hall.

Five singers (females Laura Best, Hope Caldwell and Shani Ferry, and males James Hill and Justin W. Williams) bring all the old favorites from such musicals and movies as “Oklahoma,” “South Pacific,” “Carousel,” and “The Sound of Music,” as well as tunes from lesser known collaborations by Richard Rodger and Oscar Hammerstein II, like “Allegro” and “Pipe Dream.”

To a person the singers have commanding voices. Each is given his or her turn to shine in solo pieces. Particularly outstanding on opening weekend were Hill singing “(How Do You Solve a Problem Like) Maria,” Caldwell in her gentle and soothing rendition of “If I Loved You,” and Best with a powerful and strongly emotional “Something Wonderful.”

Having a male doing the song about Maria (from “The Sound of Music”) being a problem takes a gender-bending turn. Instead of a gaggle of nuns talking about the young postulant in the abbey, this take is of a young man wondering about the girl of his dreams. The song is funny, of course, because of that, but works amazingly well as a lilting tune about young love.

The song “Something Wonderful” is simply powerfully written. In Best’s voice though, with a rich, strong, mellow alto sound — coupled with her unadorned delivery by letting the lyrics reveal the emotional tug of the song — the number was a stand out. Same with Caldwell’s “If I Loved You.” Caldwell came across as fresh, happy, playful even throughout the production and was a joy to behold. She seems to thrive when onstage, whether in the spotlight or not. With this tune, though, she was youthfully plaintive — and that can be a strong combination.

There were a number of songs involving the whole company as well as girl songs and boy songs. They are masterfully interwoven into what little structure there is in something like a musical revue. What seemed to hold the performance together was director Mary Jo Alexander’s finesse at using various strategies for entrances and exits. Characters played off each other or came onstage as part of the music. Alexander’s use of the stage area she had kept the visuals of the performance ever moving and lively, making the evening of song pass by quickly.

Mary Jo Alexander, director of Actors’ Summit’s “A Grand Night for Singing.”

Julie Goncy Shullo’s choreography at times seemed a bit apparently deliberate, but to paraphrase the lyrics of one of the show’s tunes, what ya gonna do when its a musical revue. It all worked because pianist Deborah Ingersoll’s playing kept the pace rolling. It was so cool seeing her come out with her flowing gray hair in a tuxedo with tails. Nice touch.

Actors’ Summit’s “A Grand Night for Singing” will be performed at 8 p.m. Thursday-Saturday and at 2 p.m. on Sunday through November 3 at Greystone Hall, 103 S. High St., Akron; 330-374-7568; www.actorssummit.org. Tickets are $33 ($25 for seniors over 65 and $10 for students).