(Image Courtesy of the Arts at Colby College Website)

Next! A Cabaret from the Front Lines is at Colby College's Strider Theater March 11 through March 13th at 7:30 pm. There will be a matinee performance on Tuesday, March 13th at 2:00 pm.

(Waterville, ME) You don't need to wave a French flag on a barricade while singing at the top of your lungs to be a musical revolutionary. Conceived and directed by Jonathan Mastro, Next! A Cabaret From the Front Lines, brings out the dangerous side of musical theater, taking the most thought-provoking work from Rodgers and Hammerstein, Steven Sondheim, Jacques Brel, and contemporary composers and lyricists out of the context of their original musicals and redeploying them in an original cabaret.

Individually, these songs are powerful, striking, memorable. Beside one another, they're comrades in arms, fighting social and political battles with the unconventional weapons of song and dance. Who would have thought a musical about strippers (Gypsy) could be feminist or a World War II classic (South Pacific) could attack racism? Next! will show you how.

For more information, please visit the Arts at Colby College website.

http://www.colby.edu/academics_cs/artsatcolby/

At Colby College's Strider Theater.

March 11 through March 13th at 7:30 pm with a matinee performance on Tuesday, March 13th at 2:00 pm.

(Image Courtesy of the Arts at Colby College Website)

(Waterville, ME) You don't need to wave a French flag on a barricade while singing at the top of your lungs to be a musical revolutionary. Conceived and Directed by Jonathan Mastro, Next! A Cabaret From the Front Lines, brings out the dangerous side of musical theater, taking the most thought-provoking work from Rodgers and Hammerstein, Steven Sondheim, Jacques Brel, and contemporary composers and lyricists out of the context of their original musicals and redeploying them in an original cabaret.

October 16th through October 23rd.

The scene is a night club in Berlin, as the 1920’s are drawing to a close. The Master of Ceremonies welcomes the audience to the show and assures them that, whatever their troubles, they will forget them at the Cabaret. His songs provide wry commentary throughout the show.

On the train to Berlin we find Cliff, a young American writer, and Ernst, a German who surprises Cliff by putting his briefcase among Cliff’s luggage at the German border. History is in the process of being made. Musical numbers include It Couldn’t Please Me More, Willkommen, Cabaret, Don’t Tell Mama and Two Ladies. We find Cliff on the train again, now leaving Berlin alone. He writes about Sally and the people of Berlin leading up to the Third Reich. It has been a tumultuous and heartbreaking era.

For more information on show times or to purchase tickets, please visit the Waterville Opera House website.