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Demolition

A New Play by Matt Letscher


In this very funny and poignant new play, Doug, a blue collar worker at a family owned construction company and the self proclaimed “best shovel man in SE Michigan” is charged with training Paul, the boss’s gentle, secretive, college bound son during the course of a summer demolition project. Doug is close to Paul’s family and feels needed to help the boy get ready for life away from home. Their exchanges begin hilariously with Doug’s baudy advice comically at odds with Paul’s shy nature. As things proceed, we come to realize that Paul is struggling with something far beyond Doug’s purview and experience.  A play about identity, truth, parenthood, and the courage it takes to break things apart to become your own kind of hero.

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BERLIN IM LICHT
A Kurt Weill Cabaret
ENCORE PERFORMANCE


“Come, turn on the lights so we can see what there is to see: Berlin in lights!”

After a completely sold-out performance in July, longtime friends and collaborators Jasso and Benham return to Wanda’s to present their musical love letter to Weill’s prolific opus. This encore performance will feature more original German lyrics, along with a sneak peek at their next program, currently in development: An exploration of the music Weill wrote during his two-year Paris chapter (1933 1935).

German-born American composer Kurt Weill revolutionized what theatre could be - both in terms of musical form and satirical content - through his collaborations with Bertolt Brecht in Berlin. Their “epic theatre” exploits led to Weill’s music being banned in his native country, and earned both Weill and Brecht a place on the Gestapo’s hit list. Fleeing to the U.S. in 1935, Weill was quickly influenced by Broadway and jazz, and would ultimately collaborate with many greats of Broadway’s Golden Age: Ira Gershwin, Alan Jay Lerner, and Ogden Nash to name a few.

Longtime friends and artistic collaborators Jasso and Benham present a musical love letter to Weill’s prolific opus.

Aaron Benham is an award-winning music director, pianist, and composer. More at aaronbenham.com

Michelle Jasso is an award-winning performer with credits encompassing opera, cabaret, theatre, television, commercial, and voiceover. More at michellejasso.com

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HUGHIE

1928. 3:00 a.m. on a sultry summer night in Manhattan. In the dingy lobby of a rundown hotel on a Westside Street just off Times Square, two lonely souls share a wandering, one-sided conversation. A downtrodden, introverted Desk Clerk endures the ruminations of Erie Smith, a small-time gambler, haunter of the joints along the Great White Way, as he tries to talk himself out of his despair over the recent death of his best friend and good luck charm, Hughie. Nobel laureate Eugene O'Neill, at the height of his powers, took a break from writing the ineffably tragic “Long Day’s Journey Into Night” to pen this lighter one-act play, in which a brief night’s journey toward dawn kindles an uncharacteristic gleam of hope.

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