Category Archives: Musical

Universes: Party People Salon at Clarice Smith, Mar 28

Universes: Party People Salon at Clarice Smith, Mar 28

Universes: Party People Salon
Saturday, March 28, 2015 . 8PM

Venue: Clarice Smith Performing Arts Center.

Sat, Mar 28, 2015 . 8:00PM

Tickets: Regular: $25, Student: $10. Kogood Theatre, General Admission.

Description: The award-winning ensemble UNIVERSES is known for breaking the bounds of traditional theater, fusing poetry, jazz, hip hop and Southern blues to create powerful performance experiences for diverse audiences. The Party People Salon is a unique, participatory event reflecting the revolutionary spirit of the Black Panthers and Young Lords Movements of the 1960s-1970s.

During the Salon, performance is interspersed with conversations among veteran Panthers and Lords, Black Panther Ericka Huggins and Mickey Melendez of Young Lords. They share their moving, personal stories of everyday women and men who became leaders and activists. The Party People Salon offers a rare opportunity to discover what has become of these inspiring and at times controversial citizens whose movement to make change still reverberates today.

Evil Dead: The Musical at the Greenbelt Arts Center, Mar 6-28

Evil Dead: The Musical at the Greenbelt Arts Center, Mar 6-28

Evil Dead: The Musical

Book and Lyrics by George Reinblatt
Music by Frank Cipolla, Christopher Bond, Melissa Morris and George Reinblatt
Additional Music by Christopher Bond, Melissa Morris, and George Reinblatt
Directed by Jeffery Lesniak
Music Direction by Itai Yasur
Choreographed by Rikki Howie Lacewell

Location: Greenbelt Arts Center

March 6-28, 2015
Fri, Mar 6th, 2015 at 8:00 pm
Sat, Mar 7th, 2015 at 8:00 pm
Fri, Mar 13th, 2015 at 8:00 pm
Sat, Mar 14th, 2015 at 8:00 pm
Sun, Mar 15th, 2015 at 2:00 pm
Fri, Mar 20th, 2015 at 8:00 pm
Sat, Mar 21st, 2015 at 8:00 pm
Sun, Mar 22nd, 2015 at 2:00 pm
Fri, Mar 27th, 2015 at 8:00 pm
Sat, Mar 28th, 2015 at 8:00 pm

PARENTAL WARNING: Parents strongly cautioned, due to language and stage gore. This musical is not appropriate for children.

Based on the cult classic movie “Evil Dead”, which tells the story of five friends who take a vacation to a cabin in the woods and accidentally unleash an army of zombies who start turning them all into demons. But it’s a musical, so there’s singing and dancing.

The “Splatter Zone” is a specially-priced seating area, right up front, where you can sit to feel the blood of the undead spray as Ash takes them on in battle.

With Steven Baird, Michael Brick, Winard Britt, Shammara Clarkson, David Colton, Heather Harris, Laura Kavinski, Shannon Riley, and Stephen Yednock.

Ticket prices: $30 Splatter Zone, $22 General Admission, $18 Students/Seniors/Military, $14 Youth (12 and under with adult)

Secret Circus in the Greenbelt Community Center, Feb 28 – Mar 7

Secret Circus in the Greenbelt Community Center, Feb 28 – Mar 7

Secret Circus
The Greenbelt Winter Youth Musical
Greenbelt Community Center

Christopher Cherry, Director and Author
Stefan Brodd, Musical Director
Nicole DeWald, Production Designer
Angella Foster, Choreographer
Ian Brown-Gorrell, Assistant Director

Location: Greenbelt Recreation Department

Saturday, February 28, 2015, 7pm
Sunday, March 1, 2015, 3pm
Saturday, March 7, 2015, 2pm and 7pm

Secret Circus is the story of a traveling circus in 1930’s-era Europe, racing against time to smuggle to safety people deemed physically unacceptable by the rising fascist regime. One refugee, Anya, must confront her own discomfort with the sideshow prodigies of the circus even as she accepts their help in fleeing persecution. It is a touching, exciting, and beautiful show. Secret Circus was last performed in Greenbelt ten years ago, by Camp Encore. The 2015 edition of the show features an expanded story, with additional songs, new dialogue, and enhanced circus production values.

Tickets: $5; advanced sales at 301-397-2208.

MAD presents The Musical of Musicals Feb 13-28

MAD presents The Musical of Musicals Feb 13-28

Presented by NASA – Goddard Space Flight Center’s Music and Drama Club.

Goddard’s Music and Drama Club (MAD Productions) presents:

The Musical of Musicals (The Musical!)
by Joanne Bogart and Eric Rockwell

Produced by Andy Negri
Directed by Randy Barth

Come see five musicals in one! MAD will be returning home and celebrating with an exciting musical that’s all about musicals. It’s the old melodrama “You must pay the rent” but as five mini-musicals parodying and paying homage to American and British musical theatre legends: Rodgers and Hammerstein, Stephen Sondheim, Jerry Herman, Andrew Lloyd Webber, and Kander and Ebb. Be prepared to hear some things that sound very familiar, but in a whole new way.

General Admission Tickets $20

Tickets available here or call 240-475-8800.

Chocolate Covered Rocky Horror at Joe’s Movement Emporium, Feb 13

Chocolate Covered Rocky Horror at Joe’s Movement Emporium, Feb 13

Chocolate Covered Rocky Horror at Joe’s Movement Emporium, February 13, 2015

Friday February 13, 2015 at 7:00pm

Location: Joe’s Movement Emporium

On Friday, February 13, 2015, fall in love with, “Chocolate Covered Rocky Horror,” an all-African- American Shadow-cast of Richard O’Brien’s Rocky Horror Picture Show. This production will be Washington D.C.’s, first all-African-American Rocky Horror shadow-cast ensemble.

Our musical production will feature live vocal performances and crowd engagement– placing audiences in the comical, yet horrific experience that is Dr. Frank-N-Furter’s Castle.

The production will evoke the age-old tradition of a shadow-cast for this highly provocative, yet forever memorable performance. The cast will dramatically mime the film as it plays on a large movie screen and vocally perform the musical numbers bridging another dimension to what is a shadow-cast performance.

Chocolate Covered Rocky Horror recognizes the progress African-American communities have made as it pertains to matters of love and sexuality. The shadow-cast will feature nods to recent events in our Justice system and Black legends, along with a talented cast that will leave you wanting more.

Earlorrin Productions will also take this opportunity to promote and embrace African-American owned business and entrepreneurship. Earlorrin Productions will host a reception with a number sponsors before the show highlighting the Arts and Humanities.

Love is in the air and we are aiming straight for the heart. The February production serves as a fund raiser for a major health issue effecting the African American community, Heart Disease. According to the CDC 24.5 percent of Heart Disease related deaths in 2008 were among African- Americans. A portion of the proceeds will be donated to the American Heart Association.

Tickets: $40 couple, $25 individual, $30 individual at the door. Buy tickets here.