Cabaret at UMaine this Week
Contact: Contact: Matthew Small, (646) 256-0865
ORONO — Six University of Maine performers will present a cabaret called “Songs for Change” this Wednesday and Thursday at 8 p.m. in the Class of 1944 Bear’s Den Pub in Memorial Union. Ticket sales will benefit Alternative Spring Break, a university program that annually dispatches over 50 student volunteers to service projects across the country during their March vacation.
Emily Ann Cain, Andrew Bodwell, Rebecca Guildford, Matthew Small and Molly Webster will perform a variety of musical theatre tunes with Dr. Laura Artesani, assistant professor of music, on piano. All are current and former members of University Singers, UMaine’s premier choral ensemble. The evening will include songs from “Rent,” “A Chorus Line,” “Jekyll & Hyde,” “Avenue Q,” “Pippin,” “Cabaret,” “Newsies,” “Chicago,” “The Wizard of Oz,” “Guys and Dolls,” “Cats,” and others.
“Songs for Change” is produced by Lauri Sidelko, Cain and Small. The same team presented the critically-acclaimed “Broadway Rocks” in 2000 to benefit the Shaw House in Bangor. The stage manager is UMaine alum Lindsey J. Harriman. Small, a graduate student in counselor education, will direct the ensemble. The event is sponsored by Student Entertainment and the Division of Student Affairs.
Seating in the first-ever cabaret for the new Bear’s Den will be limited. The cabaret will run Wed., Jan 18 and Thurs., Jan. 19, at 8 p.m. Tickets (faculty, staff, students $5; general public $8) will be available at the door at 7:30 p.m.