Lisa Howard, Alysha Umphress and More Join Barrington Stage Co.'s CARMEL’S CANDY STORE, Now thru 8/25

Barrington Stage Company (BSC), the award-winning theatre in downtown Pittsfield, MA, under the leadership of Julianne Boyd, Artistic Director, and TriStan Wilson, Managing Director, is proud to present Carmel's Candy Store: The Sweet Songs of Carmel Dean from tonight, August 23 – 25 at Mr. Finn's Cabaret, located on the lower level of the Sydelle and Lee Blatt Performing Arts Center (formerly Stage 2), 36 Linden Street, Pittsfield.  

Carmel's Candy Store features BSC artists and Broadway regulars Carmel Dean (BSC's The 25^th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee; Broadway: American Idiot), Lisa Howard (BSC and Broadway: The 25^th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee), Alysha Umphress (BSC's Funked Up Fairy Tales; Broadway: American Idiot) and Michael Winther (BSC's The Mysteries of Harris Burdick; Broadway:33 Variations/Mamma Mia!).

 

Carmel's Candy Store provides a tasty sampling of Dean's work as a composer, with rousing, funny and emotionally evocative lyrics by William Finn, Maya Angelou, Edna St. Vincent Millay, Anna K. Jacobs, Mindi Dickstein and Sarah Underwood. 

 

Mr. Finn's Cabaret, named after the Tony Award-winning composer of Falsettos and The 25^th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee and Artistic Producer of BSC's Musical Theatre Lab, kicked off this premiere season with singer/songwriters Joe Iconis and Nikos Tsakalakos and Broadway's Quentin Earl Darrington.

 

Mr. Finn's Cabaret is located on the lower level of the Sydelle and Lee Blatt Performing Arts Center (formerly Stage 2), 36 Linden Street, Pittsfield. Performance times are 9:30pm Thursday and Friday and 10:00pm on Saturday, or following the St. Germain Stage performance.  All tickets to Mr. Finn's Cabaret series are $15 and general admission.  Beer, wine and soda are available.  To purchase tickets or for more information, call the Barrington Stage Box Office at 413-236-8888 or visit www.barringtonstageco.org. The Box Office at Mr. Finn's Cabaret opens 30 minutes prior to each performance. Barrington Stage Company's Musical Theatre Lab is sponsored in part by Elayne Bernstein and Sol Schwartz.