For info contact Donna White at donnawhite@glmt.org or 978-319-8867 GLMT announces summer shows LOWELL, Mass. – The Greater Lowell Music Theatre, in partnership with the UMass Lowell Center for Arts and Ideas, is pleased to present its 2014 summer season of musicals. All shows are performed in Durgin Concert Hall, located on…
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Nancye Tuttle reports on happenings with the dynamic Greater Lowell Music Theatre, including a songfest of classics by Rodgers & Hammerstein on March 21-22 at UMass Lowell’s Durgin Hall. Read all about it in the Sun newspaper. Playwright, director, actor, baseball player, UMass Lowell English Dept. alumnus, and organizer supreme…
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Tonight is the last chance to see “Melody Cavalcade” by the Greater Lowell Music Theatre at Fisher Recital Hall in Durgin Hall at UMass Lowell, South Campus. Last night’s show was a smash. The packed house raved. Where else can you see local performing-arts titans Jerry Bisantz, Michael Lally, and…
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The 2nd Annual Lowell Writers and Publishers Winter Roundup is set for Saturday, February 23, 12.30 to 4.00 pm, upstairs at the Old Court Irish pub at Central and Middle streets in downtown Lowell. Publishers and writers attending include playwright Jack Neary, poet and memoir-writer Judith Dickerman-Nelson, Sweeney-and-Seawell creator Dave Robinson, John…
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Jack Neary, Lee Grande, and company have “kick-started” their musical theater venture that will begin with a production of “The Music Man” at UMass Lowell’s Durgin Hall in August. Using the online Kickstarter tool to raise capital, Jack and friends have reached their goal of $7,600 ($100 for each of…
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The Sun’s Jennifer Myers yesterday wrote about our allied blogger Jack Neary and his crew who are out to start a musical theater organization for Greater Lowell. Jack is using the increasingly popular online fundraising tool “Kickstarter” to raise $7600 (a hundred dollars for each of the 76 trombones in the “Music Man” production…
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Just back from the morning dog-walk in the South Common under a sky that is not quite as crystalline clear as it was ten years ago, but close in its blue from east to west. With the late summer rain the grass is as green and thick as you would…
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In her opionion column in today’s NYTimes, Maureen Dowd writes about the child-abuser priests in Ireland and a hero among the clergy, Archbishop Diarmuid Martin, which reminded me of a dramatic moment in Jack Neary’s play “The Porch.” I hope many of our readers were able to see the Actors Inc.…
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Read Nancye Tuttle’s advance report in the Sun on the Actors Inc. production of “The Porch,’ an insightful comedy by Jack Neary. Both Nancye and Jack are regular contributors to this blog. Read her article here, and get the Sun if you want more. The shows are set for June 2, 3 and 4…
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