Speakeasy, Cabaret, NED SMITH CENTER, GAMUT THEATRE

WHAT: Speakeasy: A 1920?s Cabaret
WHEN: March 30-31, 7:30 p.m.
WHERE: Gamut Classic Theatre, 3rd Floor, Strawberry Square, Harrisburg
COST: $27, $22 NSCNA members, $17 students and seniors. ?Show and Friday night reception tickets $40, $38 NSCNA members, $32 students and seniors over 65
SPONSORS: Jim & Becky Ulsh, Jack & Rita Gahres, Linda & Raymond Enders and the Bradenbaugh-Hottenstein Trust

The Ned Smith Center for Nature and Art is proud to partner with Gamut Theatre Group to present ?Speakeasy: A 1920?s Cabaret? at Gamut Classic Theatre on March 30-31, 2012 at 7:30 p.m. ?The event is part of the Ned Smith Center?s annual Arts and Entertainment Series.

?Speakeasy? is the highly-anticipated follow-up to last year?s original musical revue, ?You Could Drive A Person Crazy: An Evening of Stephen Sondheim.? ?The cabaret will feature music from the prohibition era (1919-1933), brought to life by vocalists Stuart Landon, Allison Graham and Alexis Dow Campbell and accompanied by David Glasgow on piano, Mark Jennings on reeds and Dan Delong on drums. ?Landon is also directing the production.

Stuart Landon works as both an actor and director here in Central PA. Local directing credits include Crazy for You at Theatre Harrisburg; Violet Oakley Unveiled at Little Theatre of Mechanicsburg; Love Letters at Hershey Area Playhouse; Wonderland, A Christmas Carol, and Stand by Your Man at Allenberry Playhouse; The Wizard of Oz and Beauty and the Beast at Camp Hill High School; and Hairspray at Susquehanna Township High School. Stuart is in staff at Open Stage of Harrisburg and has appeared there in The Santaland Diaries, A Christmas Carol, Little Shop of Horrors, Well, Hedwig and the Angry Inch, Doubt, and [title of show]. ?Favorite regional acting credits: Jesus Christ Superstar, Nunsense A-Men, Forever Plaid, My Way, The Last Five Years ,Hair, Chess, Lucky Stiff, Oklahoma!, The Full Monty, Clue, and Into the Woods. ?Stuart is a proud graduate of the University of Oklahoma A. Max Weitzenhoffer School of Musical Theatre.

Allison Graham is originally from Columbus, Ohio where she studied music, theater, and dance at Otterbein University. ?Since moving to Central Pennsylvania, she has performed with Theatre Harrisburg (Narrator in Joseph?Dreamcoat, Guenevere in Camelot, and Tess in Crazy for You), Gamut Theatre (You Could Drive a Person Crazy), Open Stage (Court Street Cabaret) Dickinson College (Soloist for Mozart?s Requiem and Vivaldi?s Gloria), and more. ?Professional regional credits include Gold Rush Productions (AK), Dickinson College (PA), Opera Columbus (OH), McCarter Theater (NJ), The National Chorale at Lincoln Center (NYC), The Cathedral Church of St. John the Divine (NYC), and St. Bartholomew?s Church (NYC). ?Allison works at WITF, where she is both the traffic coordinator and an on-air personality.

Alexis Dow Campbell currently serves as the Ned Smith Center?s Director of Creative Programming, and was formerly the Public Relations Director and a core company actor at Gamut Theatre Group. ?Previous Gamut credits include: Bram Stoker?s Dracula (Mina Harker), A Year with Frog and Toad (Bird, Turtle, and others), As You Like It (Celia), Cymbeline (Queen), Titus Andronicus (Tamora), Hamlet (Ophelia/Horatio/Guildenstern), A Company of Wayward Saints (Ruffiana), and more. ? Alexis has also appeared in Court Street Cabaret and as Catherine in Proof at Open Stage of Harrisburg. ?She performs regularly with T.M.I. Improv and No Artificial Sweeteners, an all-female improv troupe.

Source: http://centralpennartguide.com/ned-smith-center-gamut-theatre-group-speakeasy-cabaret

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