DREAMGIRLS, MARY POPPINS and More Set for Maine State Music Theatre's 55th Season

Maine State Music Theatre has announced its 55th Season:

DREAMGIRLS
June 5 - 22, 2013

The curtain goes up June 5 with the Tony Award winning, Dreamgirls, with one of the most stirring, dynamic, emotional scores ever written for the stage, brimming in R&B, soul, and pop music. With book and lyrics by Tom Eyen and music by Henry Krieger, Dreamgirls tells the explosive behind-the-scenes story of a young female rhythm and blues trio from Chicago called "The Dreams", who climb the turbulent ladder of the Motown music business to become singing superstars. Dreamgirls is based upon the show business aspirations and successes of R&B acts such as The Supremes, The Shirelles, The Marvelettes, The Chiffons, and that Motown sound which became a cultural icon amid a crucial period of transition in music and culture. Director and choreographer Marc Robin returns to MSMT to stage the sordid backstage manipulations and sensational score and effectively re?creates the black musical styles of the 1960s and turns it all into a dazzling piece of entertainment. Musical numbers include I Am Changing, One Night Only, Family and the show-stopping, And I'm Telling You I'm Not Going. Don't miss this exciting, sparkling musical experience, featuring a multi-talented cast of professional performers from New York City and around the country.

LES MISERABLES
June 26 - July 13, 2013

Back by popular demand after a sell-out 2008 run, Les Miserables will attack the Maine State Music Theatre June 26th through July 13th. Based on a novel by Victor Hugo, Les Miserables tells the musical tale of redemption and revolution in early 19th-century France. Ex-convict, Jean Valjean (known by his prison number, 24601), becomes a force for good in the world, but cannot escape his dark past as he tries to save himself and those around him. The award-winning score composed by Claude-Michel Schonberg, with lyrics by Herbert Kretzmer and a book by Alain Boublil will feature such memorable musical numbers as On My Own, I Dreamed a Dream, Do You Hear the People Sing and the show-stopping, Bring Him Home. Don't miss this exciting, passionate musical experience, featuring a multi-talented cast of professional performers from New York City and around the country including MSMT favorites Gregg Goodbrod and Curt Dale Clark as rivals, Jean Valjean and Javert.

GYPSY
July 17 - August 3, 2013

Everything's coming up roses July 17, as Maine State Music Theatre continues its 55th season of professional musical theater with the smash musical fable, Gypsy. Loosely based on the memoirs of striptease artist, Gypsy Rose Lee, Gypsy follows the dreams and disappointments of Mama Rose and her fight to raise her two daughters, Dainty June and Louise, in the world of 1920's show business, when vaudeville was dying and burlesque was born. Maine State Music Theatre favorite, Charis Leos, returns to the stage as Rose, "the ultimate show business mother" in what critics have referred to as the greatest American musical with music by Jule Styne, lyrics by Stephen Sondheim and book by Arthur Laurents. Don't miss this exciting, Tony-Award winning musical experience, featuring a multi-talented cast of professional performers from New York City and around the country.

MARY POPPINS
August 7 - 24, 2013

Maine State Music Theatre brings the 55th season of professional musical theater to a close with Disney's family favorite, Mary Poppins, which flies into the Pickard Theater August 7. Based on the P. L. Travers children's books and the 1964 Disney film of the same name, anything can and will happen at Number 17 Cherry Tree Lane when the perfect nanny, Mary Poppins, takes charge of the Banks family. Mary Poppins features the film's familiar music and lyrics by the Academy Award winning Sherman Brothers, along with additional music and lyrics by George Stiles and Anthony Drewe. The young and young-at-heart will leave the theater singing such songs as Chim Chim Cher-ee, A Spoonful of Sugar, Feed the Birds and Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious. Don't miss this exciting, family musical experience, featuring a multi-talented cast of professional performers from New York City, and around the country

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