BRUNSWICK — Single tickets to individual shows in Maine State Music Theatre’s (MSMT) upcoming season go on sale at 9 a.m. May 2.
The season opens June 6 with “A Chorus Line.”
“Legally Blonde” kicks off on June 27, starring Broadway’s Alex Ellis as the flaxen “femme-a-gogue” Elle Woods, and MSMT favorite alumna Charis Leos as Elle’s newly found “gal pal” Paulette.
Andrew Lloyd Webber’s stage adaptation of “Sunset Boulevard” debuts July 18, and the classic, “tapaganza” “42nd Street,” which opens Aug. 8, rounds out this year’s season.
Tickets to MSMT’s main stage productions range from $36 to $59. Tickets will be available online at www.msmt.org, by phone at 725-8769, or in person at 22 Elm St., Brunswick.
MSMT also will offer three special Monday night concerts. In the first, The Dartmouth Aires, Dartmouth College’s oldest a cappella group, will perform on June 18 in Brunswick. On July 9, Maine folk duo Schooner Fare will return with MSMT alumnus, Ed Romanoff.
On Aug. 13, MSMT will host a special concert version of “Always … Patsy Cline,” reuniting Charis Leos and Jenny Lee Stern from MSMT’s 2010 production.
Tickets to MSMT’s special concert events range from $17 to $30.
Two special events for children are planned as part of the 2012 season. On June 11, Skippy Jon Jones “will sing and dance his way into your heart,” according to an MSMT release. “Based on the popular book by Judy Schachner, this Theatreworks USA production is about a Siamese kitten with big ears and big dreams … including his dream to be the greatest canine sword fighter in old Mexico.”
MSMT’s intern company will present a unique retelling of the Brothers Grimm’s “Sleeping Beauty” on Aug. 20.
“This interpretation is written by MSMT’s own Marc Robin and Curt Dale Clark and will lovingly shatter any stereotypes of what it means to be a prince or princess,” the release states.
Tickets to MSMT’s children’s musicals range from $8 to $12. School groups and camp groups are welcome.
All of MSMT’s performances take place at the air-conditioned Pickard Theater on the Bowdoin College campus.
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