Tony® Winner "Anything Goes" Plays at The Park Theatre
2021 revival of Cole Porter's classic musical, starring Tony® Award-Winner Sutton Foster, screens March 27 & 30
JAFFREY, New Hampshire (March 21, 2022) This Cole Porter musical has endured through the decades since it made its debut at Broadway's Alvin Theatre in 1934. Anything Goes is a stage classic that has had three highly successful revivals on Broadway since its first run. It has also played around the world again and again. The famed musical is coming to the Monadnock Region for an exclusive two-day screening of the 2021 production, March 27 and 30 at The Park Theatre.
Last summer, the last Broadway revival production of Anything Goes was taken to London and received 5-star rave reviews. Filmed live at the famed Barbican Theatre, this major new 5-star production of the classic musical comedy features an all-star cast led by renowned Broadway royalty Sutton Foster reprising her Tony® Award-winning performance as Reno Sweeney, alongside three-time Olivier Award and Tony® Award winner Robert Lindsay (My Family), Evening Standard Theatre Award winner Felicity Kendal (The Good Life) and beloved West End Legend Gary Wilmot (Chicago). A heart-warming romance with good old-fashioned farcical fun, spectacular dance routines, and some of theatre's most memorable songs. "Anything Goes is 'a joyously shipshape revival.'" (***** The Observer).
When the S.S. American heads out to sea, etiquette and convention head out the portholes as two unlikely pairs set off on the course to true love... proving that sometimes destiny needs a little help from a crew of singing sailors, a comical disguise, and some good old-fashioned blackmail. This hilarious musical romp across the Atlantic, directed by the multi-award-winning Broadway director and choreographer Kathleen Marshall, features Cole Porter's joyful score, including I Get A Kick Out of You, You're the Top, and the show-stopping Anything Goes. The "musical equivalent of sipping one glass of champagne after another." (***** The Times), Anything Goes will take you back to the Golden Age of high society on the seas from the comfort of your Park Theatre seat.
The musical was filmed utilizing a unique ultra high definition technology plus a "you are there" spatial surround sound system. The Park Theatre will present the film in their 333-seat Eppes Auditorium with its big 27-foot wide screen and 17-speaker surround sound.
Anything Goes's special Park Theatre Stage2Screen event will be presented on Sunday, March 27 at 2:00 p.m. and 7:00 p.m. It will also be screened at 2:00 p.m. on Wednesday, March 30. Tickets are $15 each. Group sales with discounted prices are available as well as private screenings. Call The Park Theatre Box Office for tickets and group sales (603) 532-8888. Patrons can also buy tickets online at theparktheatre.org, or at the door.
The Park Theatre performing arts center is located at 19 Main Street in downtown Jaffrey, NH. The facility is fully accessible.
Arcadia Players Resumes In-Person Concerts, Led by Andrew Arceci
Andrew Arceci, the new Artistic Director of Arcadia Players, the Northampton-based period instrument ensemble, will lead his inaugural in-person concert exploring the origins of the symphonic genre. The program will include Vivaldi's Sinfonia-Al Santo Sepolcro, Handel's "Sinfony" from Messiah, and early string symphonies by Johan Helmich Roman, Giovanni Battista Sammartini, Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach, and others.
Tickets are available at www.arcadiaplayers.org or at the door. To welcome our audience back to in-person performances, tickets will be on a "pay what you wish" basis ($25 suggested.)
The safety of our audience and our performers is of the utmost importance. Proof of full vaccination will be required at the door. Masks are required at all times. The approximately one-hour program will be performed without intermission. Attendees are invited to meet Andrew Arceci following the performance.
This concert is supported by grants from the Amherst Cultural Council, the South Hadley Cultural Council, and the Massachusetts Cultural Council, a state agency.
About Andrew Arceci
Multi-instrumentalist Andrew Arceci has performed throughout North America, Europe, and Asia. Recording credits include APM Music/Juice Music, Cedille Records, Centaur Records, Music & Arts, NPR, PRI, Silent Witness––television series by BBC One (UK), BBC Radio 3 (UK), Novum (UK), Bôłt Records/Monotype Records (Poland), Deutsche Harmonia Mundi (Germany), and Deutschlandradio (Germany). He has taught at several institutions, including Bloomsburg University of Pennsylvania, Wellesley College (Director, Collegium Musicum), and Worcester State University. Additionally, he has given lectures, masterclasses, and/or workshops at Illinois Wesleyan University, the International Baroque Institute at Longy-Bard College, the Universities of Oxford, Cambridge, Edinburgh, the Narnia Arts Academy (Italy), Taipei National University of the Arts (Taiwan), and Burapha University (Thailand). He was a Visiting Fellow at Harvard University during the 2019-2020 academic year.
About Arcadia Players
Founded in 1989, Arcadia Players is a professional ensemble of musicians specializing in historical performance practice and dedicated to presenting music of the past in a fresh light for audiences old and new. We offer a series of concerts each year in communities around western Massachusetts and beyond, bringing together artists and audiences from throughout the region to engage listeners and showcase the work of area performers. Arcadia Players is in residence at the Arthur F. Kinney Center for Interdisciplinary Renaissance Studies at the University of Massachusetts in Amherst.
Events at Nova Arts Next Week
Nova Arts is proud to continue in person entertainment at 48 Emerald St in Keene NH!
Friday, April 1 will be our second Comedy Night of 2022! The event will be hosted by Leanne Horvath and the show will feature Alingon Mitra, Katie Arroyo, and Chris Pennie.
Alingon Mitra is a stand up comedian known for his tight jokes, original thoughts, and affable presence. He has appeared on The Late Show with Stephen Colbert, Conan, The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson, and Adam Devine's House Party on Comedy Central. In addition, he wrote for The Daily Show with Trevor Noah and Adam Ruins Everything.
Katie Arroyo is a comedian who has performed throughout New England and featured in clubs in New York and Boston. With an aggressive-good natured act, her varied life experiences have given her the ability to connect with any audience.
Chris Pennie has been entertaining crowds since 2005. As a lifelong bachelor and full-time single dad Chris relies on his dysfunctional family and offbeat view of the world to find humor in everyday life. If you have kids or were one in the past you'll be entertained by Chris' daily battles.
Doors open at 7:00 p.m. and laughter begins at 8:00 p.m. Tickets for these events can be purchased on our website novaarts.org, under the event tab. Don’t forget to get your tickets to this year's Thing in The Spring, 35 bands on two stages over four days.
Nova Arts is supported by and under the fiscal sponsorship of Arts Alive.