The Cape Cod Times was just quoted as saying” If you’re in the mood for some culture, you could hardly find a better place for one stop shopping than Cape Cod Center for the Arts just off 6A in Dennis Village”. We feel very fortunate as this wonderful old world playhouse and movie center is just a short drive from our two Cape Cod Bed and Breakfasts, Brewster by the Sea Inn and Spa and the Captain Freeman Inn.
Cape Cod Playhouse
The historic, beautifully landscaped compound includes Cape playhouse, the oldest continuously operating summer theatre, Cape Cod Museum of Art, which has been showcasing local artists for more than three decades and Cape Cinema that boasts a celestial mural by esteemed artist Rockwell Kent on the cinemas ceiling.
The summer calendar can be found at http://www.capeplayhouse.com where you can also reserve your seating. We like to sit on the lower level as the upper seats are placed on an angle and one feels like their seats will slide. Play titles and dates are noted below:
June 11-23 Hound the Baskervilles
But this is not your mother’s Sherlock Holmes! Sparkling, fizzy and way over the top, this show comes at you like a freight train of laughs that carries everyone in its path along for a high speed ride into brilliant dialogue and terrific physical comedy. It’s layered with literary, theatrical and everyday references that come at you so fast and furious that all that laughing can literally take your breath away. Come enjoy this “wonderful, whacky and witty evening of theatre”.
June 25-July 7 As Bees in Honey Drown
A young, hot, flavor-of-the-month novelist meets a fast talking socialite seething with the guise of wealth and glamour. He decides to play her and live the fast life with her paying the bills. Or is she playing him? With today’s culture drenched with glamour-seekers andReality TV show celebrities, this Douglas Carter Beane comedy about the Takers,and the ones who are taken, is right on the money!
July 9-21 Ain’t misbehavin
This joint is jumping’! The Cotton Club, the Savoy Ballroom, honky tonk dives and the man who made it all swing—legendary piano man, Fats Waller.From “Honeysuckle Rose” and “Your Feets Too Big” to“I Can’t Give You Anything But Love” and “T’aint Nobody’s Bizness If I Do,”get ready for a sexy, simmering, stompin’, struttin’, music and dance-filled evening that’s going to leave you breathless.Winner of every award a musical can win, including three Tonys.After this, there will be no “Keepin’ Out of Mischief” for anyone!
July 23- August 4 Legally Blond
Legally Blond, the musical is award-winning Broadway musical sensation based on the hitmovie of the same name. It follows college sweetheart and homecoming queen Elle Woods asshe puts down the credit card, hits the books and heads for Harvard Law School in pursuit ofher boyfriend Warner, who just dumped her for someone more serious.From the social whirl of California campus life to Harvard’s halls of justice, join our heroine Elle,her Chihuahua, Bruiser and the bull-dog-toting-hairdresser Paulette for this all singing,all dancing, feel-good musical comedy that’s so much fun it shouldn’t be legal!
August 6- 18 Kiss me Kate –
Cole Porter’s wit meets The Bard’s humor in one of American Theater’smost beloved Tony-Award winning musical comedies.Kiss Me Kate is the raucous and romantic backstage story of a touring group of actors.It’s “Too Darn Hot” in Baltimore where formerly married actors Fred and Lilliare cast opposite each other in a touring musical show.The sparks fly both onstage and off using a classic score which includes“So in Love,” “Another Opening, Another Show,” “From This Moment On,”and “Brush Up Your Shakespeare.”It’s a classic battle-of-the-sexes, with music, dance and a whole lot of fun!
August 20 – September 1 Nun Sense
Be a part of the fun and see the Little Sisters of Hoboken display their divine talents in a zany benefit revue.In an effort to raise money for their fallen Sisters– victims of an unfortunate convent cooking accident –Mother Superior and her order of eccentric and endearing nuns show their lighter side.With riotous dance numbers, show-stopping songs and side-splitting wit,you’ll swear Nunsense was heaven-sent!
We can’t decide which one to go see as they all sound wonderful!
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