The entire community of CAMELOT awaits the arrival of Guenevere, King Arthur of England’s future Queen. Members of the audience are quickly drawn in. Some of the enchanting musical numbers include The Simple Joys of Maidenhood, The Lusty Month of May, How to Handle a Woman, I Loved You Once in Silence, If Ever I Would Leave You, and What Do the Simple Folk Do? In the end it is fourteen-year-old Tom who tells the world of Camelot’s quest for right and honor and justice.

As the first Broadway musical by Alan Jay Lerner and Frederick Loewe after “My Fair Lady,” “Camelot” was as highly anticipated as a coronation. At the time, the advance sale was the largest in Broadway history. The 1960 musical, which turned out to be the last Lerner and Loewe theatrical collaboration, has grown in stature over the years, primarily because of its superb score.

Book and Lyrics by Alan Jay Lerner
Music by Frederick Loewe
Original production directed and staged by Moss Hart
Based on The Once and Future King by T.H. White

Sponsored by MaineGeneral Health, Kennebec Savings Bank, Huhtamaki, Maine Laser Skin Care, Maine Eye Care Associates, and John Poirier & Laurie McReel.

April 9, 10, 16, 17 2010 - 7:30 PM
April 11, 18 2010 - 2:00 PM

Tickets
$18, $16 (Youth/Senior)

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Sweet People Productions Presents:

Rustic Overtones
w/Barefoot Truth

April 23, 2010 - 8:00 PM
Tickets - $20, $15

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Rustic Overtones formed in Portland, ME, hometown to each of them. Members of this seven-piece outfit are guitarist and lead vocalist Dave Gutter, drummer Tony McNaboe, trombonist Dave Noyes, baritone saxophonist Jason Ward, bassist Jon Roods, alto saxophonist Ryan Zoidis, and Spencer Albee on keyboards and piano. Roods and Gutter began performing together first, in a family basement. They later added the rest of the group, all friends from high school, and became what is Rustic Overtones. Local gigs earned them a fan base that expanded as the band began to travel, appearing at close to 200 shows some years.

Rustic Overtones' "The New Way Out" is the first album of entirely brand new music from the band in over eight years. Recorded in their own makeshift studio between November of 2007 and September of 2009 it's the bands fifth full length studio LP and first without longtime keyboard player Spencer Albee who left the group shortly after production began to form Spencer and the School Spirit Mafia. He was replaced during the writing and recording of the record by Nigel Hall (Soulive, Lettuce, Robert Randolph) who handles the keyboard duties on TNWO.

Threads. I didnt say it. Barefoot Truth singer/songwriter Will Evans did. The concept behind Barefoot Truth's new album Threads is nothing less than universal consciousness. How is that for a reality grabber? As we emerge from the wreckage of unbridled greed in America, this album gives some very intriguing methods by which to re-set our value meters. In addition to some intelligent views on the state of humankind, Barefoot Truth has produced another rocking, reggae infused album titled Threads. This seamless creation fuses together and expands upon the ideals of these multi-talented musicians... WIll Evans on drums and lead vocals, Andy Wrba on upright bass, Jay Driscoll on weissenborn slide guitar, Garrett Duffy on harmonica, and John Waynelovich on piano.

Building on the themes and success of their previous album, Walk Softly, this cohesive effort takes a strong environmental stand and offers warnings along with celebrations. Fans of Barefoot Truth are never bored. Since their inception as an acoustic duo, the band has steadily added depth to the members, and the instruments, that appear. That depth is greatly felt in this album which immerses you in sound and at the same time, takes you step by step to the brink of something it wants you to consider. When the lyrics catch you, they do not easily let go. Hooks and phrases will hang around in your mind. You will go back time and again to try to gather all that is being presented to you. This creation will both sweep you along, and stop you in your tracks.