Forbidden Newburyport!

Thu-Sat at 8pm
Sunday - Matinee only at 3pm
A VERY SPECIAL
FIREHOUSE 20th ANNIVERSARY PRODUCTION!

"I've lived in this town for thirty years and I can't believe ___________." Fill in the blank with your favorite local issue. Whether it's griping about parking, pooper-scooper laws, nesting plovers, Plum Island erosion or the greenheads there is sure to be something in Forbidden Newburyport that will make you laugh.

Forbidden Newburyport is a satirical musical revue featuring fully-stagedBroadway show tunes lovingly (mostly!) rewritten to parody Newburyport icons, institutions and issues. Songs such as "Tradition" (Zorba the Greek), "All That Jazz" (Chicago), and "La Vie Boheme" (Rent) will have you howling as the 'new and improved' lyrics highlight beloved local heroes and skewer those hot topics that push our buttons from time to time.

See Ann Ormond (President,Newburyport Chamber of Commerce), Melissa Moore (Newburyport Five Cents Savings Bank), Teresa Spaulding (Law & Order, As the World Turns), Allyn Gamble (opened for Johnny Carson, George Carlin), John Budzyna (Executive Director, Arlington Center for the Arts); and many more of your talented friends and neighborsas they eschew their day jobs and take to the Arakelian Stage to participate in this summer's sizzling roast of all things near and dear to our hearts!

Directed and written by Suzanne Hitchcock Bryan, Forbidden Newburyport will also feature additional lyrics by John Budzyna and will be choreographed by Cheryl Fisher Schwind. Musical direction provided by Jared Lawson.

The live band will include Dan Bryan (bass), Jamie Welch (bass) and P.J. Holaday (drums). Yes, that Holaday -- son of the current Newburyport mayor. Holaday the younger will be sworn to secrecy during rehearsals...just in case there's a little mayoral skewering in the works!

Sure to be the talk of the town, don't missForbidden Newburyport. It's all here: dancing, singing, all your favorite show tunes, talented friends and neighbors hoofing it at the Firehouse and side-splitting comedy as local current events are put to music and put to the torch in this no-holds-barred revue!
Directed and written by Suzanne Hitchcock Bryan.
Musical Director: Jared Lawson
Choreographer: Cheryl Fisher Schwind
Contributing Writer: John Budzyna
Poster Design: Tim Hiltabiddle/Milestone Marketing

This event is produced bythe Firehouse Center for the Arts.

Tickets: Adults $25; Students/Seniors/Members $23