FRANK SANTOS JR.

Hilarious!

Are you a rock star? Or a Mr. Universe? Frank Santos Jr. thinks so. This second generation hypnotist unleashes inner "talents" of audience members and transforms them into "stars" in this unpredictable, uproarious laugh-until-your-sides-hurt R-rated comedy show.

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ME Productions Presents:
The James Montgomery
Blues Band
FEATURING SPECIAL GUEST
JOEY KRAMER

PLUS Ernie & The Automatics

Whether it's recording with Kid Rock, sitting in with Gregg Allman, or fronting his hot band of thirty years, James Montgomery plays a gutty blend of blues - buoyed by his direct, gritty singing, his command of a wide spray of electric- and acoustics-harmonica tones, and moody vocals.

As if this show wasn't hot enough, we just added the legendary JOEY KRAMER from AEROSMITH as a special guest. A rock star from the biggest Rock N Roll band in the world! And he's played with Montgomery before to a sold out crowd in Massachusetts...This show is going to be hot, hot, hot!

Ernie and the Automatics, founded by Ernie Boch Jr., feature a dream machine luneup. Ernie, a guitarist and Berklee grad, drew from some of Boston's most successful musicians. "I've got two retired rock stars, and two professional guys that play all the time," says Ernie.

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Join the charismatic, mischievous Willy Wonka in a world of pure imagination as he seeks to find an heir to manage his magical candy factory in this stage adaptation of Roald Dahl's Charlie and the Chocolate Factory. The play features the classic film songs The Candy Man, Pure Imagination and Oompa Loompa. Stars of the show are award-winning Director Sharon Asher Arsenault's students of the Tri-City Christian Academy Youth Theatre.

STRAFFORD WIND SYMPHONY

Celebrating Music in our Schools Month

Student musicians join the band on stage to celebrate the power of music...a gift that entertains, educates and brings joy to all. The winds and the brass collide...musically, when the Strafford Wind Symphony and the Piscataqua River Brass present a performance of Shaker Suite by Rayburn Wright. Special guest Aubrie Dionne, flutist and Plymouth State University faculty member, performs Chaminade's Concertino for Flute.

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ASLEEP AT THE WHEEL

Big Band Western Swing

The nine-time Grammy Award winning Asleep at the Wheel, who recently collaborated with Willie Nelson on Willie and the Wheel, received the 2009 Lifetime Achievement Award for Performance presented by the American Music Award membership. Founder Ray Benson has led an ever-changing lineup (over 80 members) of talented musicians for nearly forty years in his quest to keep alive the authentic  sound of Big Band Western Swing Music.

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BJ THOMAS

Five-Time Grammy Award Winner

Reminisce with award winning pop, rock and country artist BJ Thomas, one of the most recognized voices of his generation.  The five-time Grammy Award winner has produced two platinum and eleven gold records, since his first hit recording I'm So Lonesome I Could Cry. The hits continued with Eyes of a New York Woman, Hooked on a Feeling, Raindrops Keep Falling on my Head (for the Academy Award winning movie Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid), I Just Can't Help Believing and (Hey Won't You Play) Another Somebody Done Somebody Wrong Song.

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TIM SAMPLE

Welcome Back, Chummy

New England's Premier Native Humorist and Rochester Opera House regular Tim Sample comes Back in Spite of Popular Demand to our stage to regale the audience with his off beat stories delivered with his distinct brand of Downeast Maine humor.  Master storyteller Tim Sample delivers deliciously wry humor with a decidedly clever wit.

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The longest running musical revue in Broadway history Smokey Joe's Cafe celebrates the classic rock 'n' roll songs of Leiber and Stoller. In an idealized 50s setting, these greatest hits, capturing the emotions of love won and lost, are cleverly blended together with dance and comedy. Relive the brilliance of the red-hot rock 'n' roll era. Stop in at Smokey Joe's Cafe for a serving of Love Potion #9 and forty favorites like Fools Fall in Love, Stand by Me, Poison Ivy, Love Me/Don't, Yakity-Yak, and Jailhouse Rock.

ANIMAL FARM

An Original Stage Adaptation by Playwright Andrew Periale

The Rochester Opera House stage transforms into a barnyard and places the audience within the drama as the animals on Manor Farm plan a new society based on the seven principles of animalism. Audience members are compelled to ask themselves: "What kind of animal am I?" "Would I follow or lead?" "Would I rebel or fall in line?" The cast, at times, addresses the audience directly, asking them to sing, chant or play along with the action of the play.

"Andrew Periale has translated this well-known tale into something wonderfully theatrical...brought back the book's questions about freedom and equality into 21st-century America." ~ Cynthia Meier, Director of Animal Farm at the Rogue Theatre in Tuscon, AZ

Playwright and Rochester, NH Poet Laureate Andrew Periale has worked in theatre since the 1970s and with his wife, Bonnie, founded the Emmy-nominated Perry Alley Theatre in 1986.  Among Periale's scripts are Beo/Wolf, Share and Share Alike, Chinese Take-Out Theatre and a translation of Duerrenmatt's The Visit. Periale has also produced a CD of humorous cowboy songs for his alter ego, Woody-Boy Johnson.