BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//Ogunquit Performing Arts - ECPv6.16.2//NONSGML v1.0//EN CALSCALE:GREGORIAN METHOD:PUBLISH X-WR-CALNAME:Ogunquit Performing Arts X-ORIGINAL-URL:https://ogunquitperformingarts.org X-WR-CALDESC:Events for Ogunquit Performing Arts REFRESH-INTERVAL;VALUE=DURATION:PT1H X-Robots-Tag:noindex X-PUBLISHED-TTL:PT1H BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/New_York BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 TZNAME:EDT DTSTART:20180311T070000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:EST DTSTART:20181104T060000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 TZNAME:EDT DTSTART:20190310T070000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:EST DTSTART:20191103T060000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 TZNAME:EDT DTSTART:20200308T070000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:EST DTSTART:20201101T060000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 TZNAME:EDT DTSTART:20210314T070000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:EST DTSTART:20211107T060000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 TZNAME:EDT DTSTART:20220313T070000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:EST DTSTART:20221106T060000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 TZNAME:EDT DTSTART:20230312T070000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:EST DTSTART:20231105T060000 END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20220313T140000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20220313T140000 DTSTAMP:20260526T164958 CREATED:20220218T182647Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240219T150809Z UID:10000162-1647180000-1647180000@ogunquitperformingarts.org SUMMARY:Classic Film Series: The Thin Man DESCRIPTION:This 1934 American pre-Code comedy-mystery was based on the novel of the same name by Dashiell Hammett. but the murder mystery around which the plot turns is relatively unimportant to the movie’s focus and its enduring appeal. What makes the film so entertaining is not the unraveling of the murder but the movie’s central relationship of Nora and Nick Charles\, one that redefined the screen depiction of marriage.  William Powell and Myrna Loy developed a bantering screen chemistry of charming\, lighthearted repartee as the basis for the dynamic husband-and-wife detective team.  The film was a huge hit\, followed by five equally successful sequels. \nIt’s impossible now to imagine anyone in the roles of Nora and Nick Charles but Myrna Loy and William Powell. Their on-screen chemistry was so vibrant that the public came to believe the two were married in real life. \nAudiences adored “The Thin Man\,” and so did critics. It was a huge hit\, and turned around the careers of Powell and Loy. The film earned Academy Award nominations for Best Picture\, Best Actor\, Best Director\, and Best Adapted Screenplay. \nMyrna Loy was one of Hollywood’s most popular actresses of the late 1930s and maintained that stardom for decades.  Originally typecast in exotic roles\, often as a vamp\, she achieved stardom following her portrayal of Nora Charles in “The Thin Man” series of 6 films\, confiming her as an enduring favorite of movie audiences around the country. \nDuring World War II\, Loy devoted her time working with the Red Cross\, and toured frequently to raise funds for the war efforts.  She was so fiercely outspoken against Adolf Hitler that her name was added to his “hit list.” \nResuming a successful film and stage career in the 1950’s\, Loy also assumed an influential role as co-chairman of the Advisory Council of the National Committee Against Discrimination in Housing\, and served as a member of the U.S. National Commission for UNESCO.  She continued as an actress through the 1980’s\, and received multiple major awards and honors. URL:https://ogunquitperformingarts.org/event/classic-film-series-the-thin-man/ LOCATION:S. Judson Dunaway Center\, 23 School Street\, Ogunquit\, ME\, 03907\, United States CATEGORIES:Classic Film Series ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://ogunquitperformingarts.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/02/Myrna-Loy-Photo-Number-1.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20220306T140000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20220306T140000 DTSTAMP:20260526T164958 CREATED:20210630T210507Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240219T150809Z UID:10000143-1646575200-1646575200@ogunquitperformingarts.org SUMMARY:Classic Film Series: The Rains Came DESCRIPTION:A lavish and expensive prestige picture\, and based on a critically acclaimed novel by Louis Bromfield\, “The Rains Came” (1939) stars Tyrone Power as an Indian doctor in the mythical city of Ranchipur\, India. He begins an affair with a married British noblewoman (Myrna Loy) until all lives are changed by a massive earthquake and flood. Myrna Loy delivers one her most sensitive and in-depth dramatic performances\, achieving another career break-through. \nThe film co-stars George Brent and features a strong cast of supporting players\,  including  Maria Ouspenskaya\, Henry Travers\, Jane Darwell\, H.B. Warner and Nigel Bruce.  Loy was hired on loanout from another studio for “The Rains Came” after every top actress in town had campaigned for the part.  During the filming\, author Bromfield said to her\, “I think you’re giving the best performance of your career.” \nThe most significant co-star was probably the special effects\, which won the first-ever Oscar® in that category.  For the flood and earthquake scenes\, 350 grips\, carpenters and other laborers worked for more than a month on these sequences. To create the effects in the flood scenes\, a tank holding approximately 50\,000 gallons of water was erected on a studio soundstage.  Cinematographer Arthur Miller recalled\, “You never saw such water in your life! Brent and the others took a hell of a beating on the picture. There was one scene when Nigel Bruce and his manservant were on the landing of their house and the water rushed in and ‘drowned’ them in one shot\, without a cut. And in fact the actors actually took the full force of that\, and even had bits of the set flying around them….” \n  \nMyrna Loy was one of Hollywood’s most popular actresses of the late 1930s and maintained that stardom for decades.  Originally typecast in exotic roles\, often as a vamp\, she achieved stardom following her portrayal of Nora Charles in “The Thin Man” series of 6 films\, confiming her as an enduring favorite of movie audiences around the country. \nDuring World War II\, Loy devoted her time working with the Red Cross\, and toured frequently to raise funds for the war efforts.  She was so fiercely outspoken against Adolf Hitler that her name was added to his “hit list.” \nResuming a successful film and stage career in the 1950’s\, Loy also assumed an influential role as co-chairman of the Advisory Council of the National Committee Against Discrimination in Housing\, and served as a member of the U.S. National Commission for UNESCO.  She continued as an actress through the 1980’s\, and received multiple major awards and honors. URL:https://ogunquitperformingarts.org/event/classic-film-screening-the-rains-came/ LOCATION:S. Judson Dunaway Center\, 23 School Street\, Ogunquit\, ME\, 03907\, United States CATEGORIES:Classic Film Series ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://ogunquitperformingarts.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/06/Myrna-Loy-Rains-Came-Photo-1.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20220227T140000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20220227T140000 DTSTAMP:20260526T164958 CREATED:20220126T215840Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240219T150810Z UID:10000161-1645970400-1645970400@ogunquitperformingarts.org SUMMARY:Classic Film Series | Marilyn Monroe: The Misfits DESCRIPTION:The film tells the dramatic story of a sensitive divorcee\, who gets mixed up with three cowboys who are clinging to the ways of the past by roping mustangs in the 1960 Nevada desert.  Directed by John Huston\, the film follows the difficult relationships among a newly divorced woman (Marilyn Monroe)\, her friendly landlady (Thelma Ritter)\, an over-the-hill cowboy (Clark Gable) with whom she falls in love\,  the cowboy’s tow truck-driving and plane-flying friend (Eli Wallach)\, and their rodeo-riding\, bronc-busting friend (Montgomery Clift). \nAdapted by Arthur Miller from his own short story of the same name\, (as a vehicle for his then-wife Marilyn Monroe)\, the making of The Misfits was troublesome on several accounts\, not the least of which was the breakdown of their marriage.  Nonetheless\, the film received critical acclaim for its script and performances\,and many critics now consider it to be a masterpiece. \nUnhappily\, this was the last film for both Gable and Monroe.  Gable became ill two days after filming and died ten days later.  Monroe and Miller were divorced within weeks after completion of the film; she died of a drug overdose 18 months later. \nBorn Norma Jeane Mortenson (June 1\, 1926 – August 4\, 1962)\, Marilyn Monroe spent most of her childhood in foster homes and an orphanage. Famous for playing comedic characters\, she became one of the most popular sex symbols of the 1950s and early 1960s and was emblematic of the era’s sexual revolution. She was a top-billed actress for only a decade\, but her films grossed $200 million (equivalent to $2 billion in 2020) by the time of her death in 1962.  Long after her death\, Monroe remains a major icon of pop culture. URL:https://ogunquitperformingarts.org/event/classic-film-series-marilyn-monroe-the-misfits/ LOCATION:S. Judson Dunaway Center\, 23 School Street\, Ogunquit\, ME\, 03907\, United States CATEGORIES:Classic Film Series ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://ogunquitperformingarts.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/MM-The-Misfits.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20220220T140000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20220220T140000 DTSTAMP:20260526T164958 CREATED:20220126T215618Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240219T150810Z UID:10000160-1645365600-1645365600@ogunquitperformingarts.org SUMMARY:Classic Film Series | Marilyn Monroe: Some Like It Hot DESCRIPTION:Filmed in 1959 and rated one of the all-time best films\, this screwball comedy stars not only Marilyn Monroe but Tony Curtis\, Jack Lemmon\, Joe E. Brown\, and George Raft. After witnessing a Mafia murder in Chicago\, slick saxophone player Joe (Tony Curtis) and his long-suffering buddy\, Jerry (Jack Lemmon)\, improvise a quick plan to escape from Chicago with their lives. Disguising themselves as women\, they join an all-female jazz band and hop a train bound for sunny Florida. They remind themselves while vying for the attention of Sugar (Marilyn Monroe)\, that they are posing as women and cannot pursue her. The film initially met with mixed reviews due to the notoriety of the cross dressing at the time\, although it won 4 Academy Awards. \nRunning the gamut from broad slapstick to sly sexual innuendo\, Some Like It Hot was considered a risky venture when it was released in 1959. This was due to its outrageous sense of humor\, which had the potential to offend viewers and risk being viewed as an exercise in bad taste. Yet it was also one of the most successful films of the year and continues to elicit wild laughter\, even after repeated viewings. Director Billy Wilder\, who was best known (at that time) for dark dramas like Double Indemnity (1944) and Sunset Boulevard (1950)\, elicited dead-on performances from Lemmon\, Curtis (who also does a perfect Cary Grant imitation) and Marilyn Monroe.  Wilder mixed black comedy\, nostalgia for the silent era\, over-the-top physical humor\, and a fine sense of period detail to achieve the funniest movie he ever made. \n———————————————— \nBorn Norma Jeane Mortenson (June 1\, 1926 – August 4\, 1962)\, Marilyn Monroe spent most of her childhood in foster homes and an orphanage. Famous for playing comedic characters\, she became one of the most popular sex symbols of the 1950s and early 1960s and was emblematic of the era’s sexual revolution. She was a top-billed actress for only a decade\, but her films grossed $200 million (equivalent to $2 billion in 2020) by the time of her death in 1962.  Long after her death\, Monroe remains a major icon of pop culture.   URL:https://ogunquitperformingarts.org/event/classic-film-series-marilyn-monroe-some-like-it-hot/ LOCATION:S. Judson Dunaway Center\, 23 School Street\, Ogunquit\, ME\, 03907\, United States CATEGORIES:Classic Film Series ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://ogunquitperformingarts.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/MM-Some-Like-It-Hot.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20220213T140000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20220213T140000 DTSTAMP:20260526T164958 CREATED:20220126T215312Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240219T150810Z UID:10000159-1644760800-1644760800@ogunquitperformingarts.org SUMMARY:Classic Film Series | Marilyn Monroe: Niagara DESCRIPTION:This film noir production\, starring Marilyn Monroe\, Joseph Cotten and Jean Peters\, tells the story of an ordinary couple on an overdue vacation who witness the distressing and suspicious actions of another couple staying in a neighboring tourist cabin overlooking Niagara Falls.  Ray and Polly Cutler\, on a delayed honeymoon\, become unwillingly involved in the troubled and volatile marriage of George and Rose Loomis.  The incredible film scenery lends itself to this plot filled with illicit love and murder! \nTrue to its title\, the 1953 thriller in color spares no effort to make Niagara Falls the star of its suspenseful\, sometimes spectacular story. The movie starts and finishes with dramatic images of the falls\, emphasizing their power\, beauty\, and potential danger.  Making the falls a constant presence was the deliberate strategy of the filmmakers; almost every scene takes place in the immediate vicinity of the falls. \nTo make strong impressions in this setting\, the human stars have their work cut out for them. The one who succeeds best is\, not surprisingly\, Marilyn Monroe as the wicked wife\, giving a nicely controlled performance\, blending the sultry and the sinister without upstaging or eclipsing her costars. They’re gifted Hollywood actors:  Joseph Cotten plays the tormented husband and Jean Peters plays the honeymooning bride in a neighboring cabin – but they don’t have the magnetism that made Monroe a unique screen personality. \nBorn Norma Jeane Mortenson (June 1\, 1926 – August 4\, 1962)\, Marilyn Monroe spent most of her childhood in foster homes and an orphanage. Famous for playing comedic characters\, she became one of the most popular sex symbols of the 1950s and early 1960s and was emblematic of the era’s sexual revolution. She was a top-billed actress for only a decade\, but her films grossed $200 million (equivalent to $2 billion in 2020) by the time of her death in 1962.  Long after her death\, Monroe remains a major icon of pop culture. URL:https://ogunquitperformingarts.org/event/classic-film-series-marilyn-monroe-niagara/ LOCATION:S. Judson Dunaway Center\, 23 School Street\, Ogunquit\, ME\, 03907\, United States CATEGORIES:Classic Film Series ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://ogunquitperformingarts.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/MM-Niagara.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20220206T140000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20220206T140000 DTSTAMP:20260526T164958 CREATED:20210630T205905Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240219T150810Z UID:10000142-1644156000-1644156000@ogunquitperformingarts.org SUMMARY:Classic Film Series: Gentlemen Prefer Blondes DESCRIPTION:Gentlemen Prefer Blondes is a 1953 American musical comedy film based on the 1949 stage musical of the same name. It was directed by Howard Hawks and stars Jane Russell and Marilyn Monroe\, with Charles Coburn\, Elliott Reid\, Tommy Noonan\, George Winslow\, Taylor Holmes and Norma Varden in supporting roles. \nThe film is filled with comedic situations and musical numbers\, choreographed by Jack Cole\, while the music was written by Hoagy Carmichael\, Harold Adamson\, Jule Styne and Leo Robin. The songs by Styne and Robin are from the Broadway show\, while the songs by Carmichael and Adamson were written especially for the film. Despite the film’s title\, Monroe was paid her usual contract salary of $500 a week\, while Russell\, then the better known actress\, earned $200\,000. \nWhile Russell’s down-to-earth\, sharp wit has been observed by most critics\, it was Monroe’s turn as the gold-digging Lorelei Lee for which the film is often remembered.[4] Monroe’s rendition of the song “Diamonds Are a Girl’s Best Friend” and her pink dress are considered iconic\, and the performance has inspired homages by Madonna\, Beyoncé\, Geri Halliwell\, Kylie Minogue\, Nicole Kidman\, Margot Robbie\, Anna Nicole Smith\, Christina Aguilera\, Ariana Grande\, and James Franco. \nBorn Norma Jeane Mortenson (June 1\, 1926 – August 4\, 1962)\, Marilyn Monroe spent most of her childhood in foster homes and an orphanage. Famous for playing comedic characters\, she became one of the most popular sex symbols of the 1950s and early 1960s and was emblematic of the era’s sexual revolution. She was a top-billed actress for only a decade\, but her films grossed $200 million (equivalent to $2 billion in 2020) by the time of her death in 1962. Long after her death\, Monroe remains a major icon of pop culture. URL:https://ogunquitperformingarts.org/event/classic-film-screening-gentlemen-prefer-blondes/ LOCATION:S. Judson Dunaway Center\, 23 School Street\, Ogunquit\, ME\, 03907\, United States CATEGORIES:Classic Film Series ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://ogunquitperformingarts.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/06/MM-Gentlemen-Prefer-Blondes.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20220130T140000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20220130T140000 DTSTAMP:20260526T164958 CREATED:20211214T215937Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240219T150811Z UID:10000158-1643551200-1643551200@ogunquitperformingarts.org SUMMARY:Classic Film Series | Robert Mitchum: CANCELLED The Sundowners DESCRIPTION:THE SUNDOWNERS (1960) charts the nomadic adventures of a family of Australian sheep drovers. Robert Mitchum and Deborah Kerr play a loving but imperfect married couple\, Paddy and Ida Carmody\, who disagree on their basic lifestyle. Weary of cooking over campfires\, Ida desperately wants a roof over her head. Paddy would prefer never to sleep in the same place twice. \nMitchum once again proves his versatility by playing against type:  a good but willfully humble man determined to stay as he is.  Kerr matches his determination point for point\, and the two\, re-teamed for their second film together\, deliver another remarkable complementary performance.  The film also stars Glynis Johns\, Dina Merrill\, and Peter Ustinov. \nSundowner is the Australian word for someone whose home is where the sun goes down.  For this epic tribute to the virtues of home and family\, based on Jon Cleary’s novel “Back of Beyond\,” director Fred Zinnemann took cast and crew halfway round the world to make one of the first Hollywood films shot on location in Australia. \nFor leading lady\, Zinnemann’s first choice was Deborah Kerr\, who had shot to stardom when he cast her against type as an earthy adulteress in “From Here to Eternity” (1953). He originally wanted William Holden or Gary Cooper to play her husband\,  but neither was available. \nRobert Mitchum got the role instead\, turning in one of his best performances. Zinnemann quickly realized that the star’s lackadaisical attitude was merely a mask for his dedication to acting. Particularly impressive was Mitchum’s ability to capture the Australian accent. But he did have a problem with shearing sheep. The screen tough guy was so worried about hurting the sheep he needed a few beers before he could do the scene. \nRobert Mitchum was an American leading man of enormous ability\, who sublimated his talents beneath an air of disinterest.  A master of accents and seemingly unconcerned about his star image\, he played in both forgettable and unforgettable films with unswerving nonchalance\, leading many to overlook the prodigious talent he could bring to a project that he found compelling. \nDirector Howard Hawks remained unconvinced about Mitchum’s self-proclaimed indifference towards acting\, and confronted him on the set of “El Dorado”\, telling him\, “You pretend not to care\, but you really work very hard.” Mitchum answered\, “Don’t tell anybody.” \nActually\, his craft and durability were achieved only through a lot of hard\, private study. He learned how little the camera needed to be shown\, and no one has matched his weary swagger. Unlike many\, Mitchum realized that stillness and the ability to listen were the cornerstones of movie acting. He created his own sense of space and time\, and offered the movie equivalent of a kind of jazz cool\, a seamless fusion of thought and action. \nAlthough underrated during his lifetime\, Mitchum is now recognized as a master of the film art of stillness and underplaying. He appears on the American Film Institute’s list of the top 25 greatest male stars of classic American cinema. URL:https://ogunquitperformingarts.org/event/classic-film-series-robert-mitchum-the-sundowners/ LOCATION:S. Judson Dunaway Center\, 23 School Street\, Ogunquit\, ME\, 03907\, United States CATEGORIES:Classic Film Series ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://ogunquitperformingarts.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/12/Mitchum-The-Sundowners-copy.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20220123T140000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20220123T140000 DTSTAMP:20260526T164958 CREATED:20211214T215757Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240219T150811Z UID:10000157-1642946400-1642946400@ogunquitperformingarts.org SUMMARY:Classic Film Series | Robert Mitchum: The Big Sleep DESCRIPTION:THE BIG SLEEP is a 1978 re-imagining of the Raymond Chandler classic.  Mitchum plays an older Philip Marlowe\, now based in London\, who  investigates a seemingly routine case of blackmail\, but in the process uncovers a more sinister plot which spirals into murder and madness.  (This is Mitchum’s second film portrayal of Philip Marlowe\, having played the world-weary detective in 1975’s neo-noir “Farewell My Lovely.”)  The film also stars Sarah Miles\, Candy Clark\, Joan Collins\, and Oliver Reed\, with a special appearance by  James Stewart. \nThe film contains material more explicit than what could only be hinted at in the 1946 version with Bogart and Bacall\, and includes much more original dialogue from the Chandler book.  Common to both versions is the notoriously complicated plot. \nPhilip Marlowe (Robert Mitchum) is asked by the elderly General Sternwood (James Stewart) to investigate an attempt at blackmail on one of his daughters. He soon finds that the attempt is half-hearted at best\, and seems to be more connected with the disappearance of the other daughter’s husband\, Rusty Regan (David Savile). Rusty’s wife seems unconcerned with his disappearance\, further complicating the mystery. Only General Sternwood seems concerned as mobsters and hired killers continue to appear in the path of the investigation. \nRobert Mitchum was an American leading man of enormous ability\, who sublimated his talents beneath an air of disinterest.  A master of accents and seemingly unconcerned about his star image\, he played in both forgettable and unforgettable films with unswerving nonchalance\, leading many to overlook the prodigious talent he could bring to a project that he found compelling. \nDirector Howard Hawks remained unconvinced about Mitchum’s self-proclaimed indifference towards acting\, and confronted him on the set of “El Dorado”\, telling him\, “You pretend not to care\, but you really work very hard.” Mitchum answered\, “Don’t tell anybody.” \nActually\, his craft and durability were achieved only through a lot of hard\, private study. He learned how little the camera needed to be shown\, and no one has matched his weary swagger. Unlike many\, Mitchum realized that stillness and the ability to listen were the cornerstones of movie acting. He created his own sense of space and time\, and offered the movie equivalent of a kind of jazz cool\, a seamless fusion of thought and action. \nAlthough underrated during his lifetime\, Mitchum is now recognized as a master of the film art of stillness and underplaying. He appears on the American Film Institute’s list of the top 25 greatest male stars of classic American cinema. URL:https://ogunquitperformingarts.org/event/classic-film-series-robert-mitchum-the-big-sleep/ LOCATION:S. Judson Dunaway Center\, 23 School Street\, Ogunquit\, ME\, 03907\, United States CATEGORIES:Classic Film Series ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://ogunquitperformingarts.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/06/Mitchum-film-The-Big-Sleep.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20220116T140000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20220116T140000 DTSTAMP:20260526T164958 CREATED:20211214T215501Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240219T150811Z UID:10000156-1642341600-1642341600@ogunquitperformingarts.org SUMMARY:Classic Film Series | Robert Mitchum: El Dorado DESCRIPTION:EL DORADO is a 1966 comedy Western film produced and directed by Howard Hawks and starring John Wayne and Robert Mitchum. The film is about an aging gunfighter who comes to the aid of an old friend\, now a drunken sheriff\, struggling to defend a rancher and his family in a range war.  The film also stars James Caan as Wayne’s exasperating young sidekick who likes to quote appropriate stanzas from the Edgar Allan Poe poem\, “El Dorado” at various points throughout the film.  Although the plot is very similar to a previous Hawks’ film\, “Rio Bravo\,” the director told Mitchum that the film was not about the plot; it was all about character development. \nRoger Ebert awarded the film three and a half stars\, stating: “El Dorado is a tightly directed\, humorous\, altogether successful Western\, turned out almost effortlessly\, it would seem\, by three old pros: John Wayne\, Robert Mitchum and director Howard Hawks.”  The film was the only screen pairing between Wayne and Mitchum; though they both appear in “The Longest Day\,” they share no scenes in that film. \nRobert Mitchum was an American leading man of enormous ability\, who sublimated his talents beneath an air of disinterest.  A master of accents and seemingly unconcerned about his star image\, he played in both forgettable and unforgettable films with unswerving nonchalance\, leading many to overlook the prodigious talent he could bring to a project that he found compelling. \nDirector Howard Hawks remained unconvinced about Mitchum’s self-proclaimed indifference towards acting\, and confronted him on the set of “El Dorado”\, telling him\, “You pretend not to care\, but you really work very hard.” Mitchum answered\, “Don’t tell anybody.” \nActually\, his craft and durability were achieved only through a lot of hard\, private study. He learned how little the camera needed to be shown\, and no one has matched his weary swagger. Unlike many\, Mitchum realized that stillness and the ability to listen were the cornerstones of movie acting. He created his own sense of space and time\, and offered the movie equivalent of a kind of jazz cool\, a seamless fusion of thought and action. \nAlthough underrated during his lifetime\, Mitchum is now recognized as a master of the film art of stillness and underplaying. He appears on the American Film Institute’s list of the top 25 greatest male stars of classic American cinema. URL:https://ogunquitperformingarts.org/event/classic-film-series-robert-mitchum-el-dorado/ LOCATION:S. Judson Dunaway Center\, 23 School Street\, Ogunquit\, ME\, 03907\, United States CATEGORIES:Classic Film Series ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://ogunquitperformingarts.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/06/Mitchum-El-Dorado.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20220109T140000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20220109T140000 DTSTAMP:20260526T164958 CREATED:20211214T215213Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240219T150812Z UID:10000155-1641736800-1641736800@ogunquitperformingarts.org SUMMARY:Classic Film Series | Robert Mitchum: Heaven Knows\, Mr. Allison DESCRIPTION:HEAVEN KNOWS\, MR. ALLISON (1957) stars Robert Mitchum as an uneducated\, self-reliant American marine who finds himself marooned on a Japanese-occupied island during World War II\, along with a well-mannered\, deeply religious Irish nun (Deborah Kerr) – with whom he forms a deep emotional bond that gradually blossoms into love. The palpable chemistry between Mitchum and Kerr\, the marvelous cinematography\, and Oscar-nominated screenplay by director John Huston and John Lee Mahin come together in a captivating survival saga that Mitchum would cite as his own personal favorite among his films.  He also would speak of Kerr ever after as his all-time favorite actress. \nDeborah Kerr and Robert Mitchum were indeed a magical team.  The actress likened their work together to a perfect doubles pair at tennis.  Getting to know him in those first days on location on the island of Tobago\, Kerr recalled finding herself “listening to an extremely sensitive\, poetic\, extraordinarily interesting man…a perceptive\, amusing person with a great gift for telling a story\, and possessed of a completely unexpected vast fund of knowledge…Bob was at all times patient\, concerned\, and completely professional.” \nThe film was adapted by John Huston and John Lee Mahin from the 1952 novel by Charles Shaw. It was nominated for Academy Awards for Best Actress in a Leading Role (Deborah Kerr) and Best Writing\, Screenplay Based on Material from Another Medium. \nRobert Mitchum was an American leading man of enormous ability\, who sublimated his talents beneath an air of disinterest.  A master of accents and seemingly unconcerned about his star image\, he played in both forgettable and unforgettable films with unswerving nonchalance\, leading many to overlook the prodigious talent he could bring to a project that he found compelling. \nDirector Howard Hawks remained unconvinced about Mitchum’s self-proclaimed indifference towards acting\, and confronted him on the set of “El Dorado”\, telling him\, “You pretend not to care\, but you really work very hard.” Mitchum answered\, “Don’t tell anybody.” \nActually\, his craft and durability were achieved only through a lot of hard\, private study. He learned how little the camera needed to be shown\, and no one has matched his weary swagger. Unlike many\, Mitchum realized that stillness and the ability to listen were the cornerstones of movie acting. He created his own sense of space and time\, and offered the movie equivalent of a kind of jazz cool\, a seamless fusion of thought and action. \nAlthough underrated during his lifetime\, Mitchum is now recognized as a master of the film art of stillness and underplaying. He appears on the American Film Institute’s list of the top 25 greatest male stars of classic American cinema. URL:https://ogunquitperformingarts.org/event/classic-film-series-robert-mitchum-heaven-knows-mr-allison/ LOCATION:S. Judson Dunaway Center\, 23 School Street\, Ogunquit\, ME\, 03907\, United States CATEGORIES:Classic Film Series ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://ogunquitperformingarts.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/06/Mitchum-Heaven-Knows-Mr-Allison.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20220102T140000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20220102T140000 DTSTAMP:20260526T164958 CREATED:20210630T205420Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240219T150812Z UID:10000141-1641132000-1641132000@ogunquitperformingarts.org SUMMARY:Classic Film Series | Robert Mitchum: The Enemy Below DESCRIPTION:THE ENEMY BELOW (1957) is a war adventure film \, which tells the story of the battle between an American destroyer escort and a German U-boat during World War II. Produced and directed by acclaimed actor\, Dick Powell\, the movie stars Robert Mitchum and Curt Jürgens as the American and German commanding officers\, engaged in a prolonged and deadly battle of wits that tests both men and their crews. Each man grows to respect his opponent.The film was based on the 1956 novel by Denys Rayner\, a British naval officer involved in anti-submarine warfare throughout the Battle of the Atlantic. \nThe film’s destroyer escort USS Haynes (DE-181) was represented by the USS Whitehurst\, filmed in the Pacific Ocean near Oahu\, Hawaii. Many of Whitehurst’s crewmen acted in the film; the phone talkers\, the gun and depth charge crews\,  and all of the men seen abandoning ship were real Whitehurst crewmen. \nRobert Mitchum was an American leading man of enormous ability\, who sublimated his talents beneath an air of disinterest.  A master of accents and seemingly unconcerned about his star image\, he played in both forgettable and unforgettable films with unswerving nonchalance\, leading many to overlook the prodigious talent he could bring to a project that he found compelling. \nDirector Howard Hawks remained unconvinced about Mitchum’s self-proclaimed indifference towards acting\, and confronted him on the set of “El Dorado”\, telling him\, “You pretend not to care\, but you really work very hard.” Mitchum answered\, “Don’t tell anybody.” \nActually\, his craft and durability were achieved only through a lot of hard\, private study. He learned how little the camera needed to be shown\, and no one has matched his weary swagger. Unlike many\, Mitchum realized that stillness and the ability to listen were the cornerstones of movie acting. He created his own sense of space and time\, and offered the movie equivalent of a kind of jazz cool\, a seamless fusion of thought and action. \nAlthough underrated during his lifetime\, Mitchum is now recognized as a master of the film art of stillness and underplaying. He appears on the American Film Institute’s list of the top 25 greatest male stars of classic American cinema. URL:https://ogunquitperformingarts.org/event/classic-film-the-enemy-below/ LOCATION:S. Judson Dunaway Center\, 23 School Street\, Ogunquit\, ME\, 03907\, United States CATEGORIES:Classic Film Series ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://ogunquitperformingarts.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/06/Mitchum-The-Enemy-Below-film.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20211205T140000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20211205T140000 DTSTAMP:20260526T164958 CREATED:20210630T204647Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240219T150813Z UID:10000140-1638712800-1638712800@ogunquitperformingarts.org SUMMARY:Classic Film Series: Christmas in Connecticut DESCRIPTION:Elizabeth Lane is a single New Yorker\, employed as a food writer. Her articles about her fictitious Connecticut farm\, husband\, and baby are admired by housewives across the country. Her publisher\, Alexander Yardley\, is unaware of the charade and insists that Elizabeth host a Christmas dinner for returning war hero Jefferson Jones\, who read all of her recipes while in the hospital and is so fond of her that his nurse\, Mary Lee\, wrote a letter to the publisher. Facing a career-ending scandal\, not only for herself but for her editor\, Dudley Beecham\, Lane is forced to comply. In desperation\, Elizabeth agrees to marry her friend\, John Sloan\, who has a farm in Connecticut. She also enlists the help of her uncle\, chef Felix Bassenak\, who has been providing her with the recipes for her articles. \nAt Sloan’s farm on Christmas Eve\, Elizabeth meets Norah\, the housekeeper\, as well as a neighbor’s baby whom they pretend is their baby. Elizabeth and John plan to be married immediately by Judge Crowthers\, but the ceremony is interrupted when Jefferson arrives early. Elizabeth is smitten and it is love at first sight. URL:https://ogunquitperformingarts.org/event/classic-film-screening-christmas-in-connecticut/ LOCATION:S. Judson Dunaway Center\, 23 School Street\, Ogunquit\, ME\, 03907\, United States CATEGORIES:Classic Film Series ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://ogunquitperformingarts.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/xmas-ct-2021.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20211017T150000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20211017T150000 DTSTAMP:20260526T164958 CREATED:20210630T203623Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240219T150814Z UID:10000138-1634482800-1634482800@ogunquitperformingarts.org SUMMARY:14th Annual Elizabeth Dunaway Burnham Piano Festival | Student Piano Recital DESCRIPTION:The Festival concludes with the Student Piano Recital\, featuring the area’s best young pianists performing on OPA’s fabled Steinway. It is here that talented local students have the opportunity to perform on a world-class piano in front of a live audience. Admission to this performance is free. \nThe Festival honors the memory of Elizabeth Dunaway Burnham\, founder and first chairperson of Ogunquit Performing Arts. A pianist herself\, Betty studied\, performed and taught piano for most of her life. She also saw to it that OPA acquired its spectacular Steinway Concert Model C Grand Piano\, which still remains OPA’s greatest treasure. URL:https://ogunquitperformingarts.org/event/14th-annual-elizabeth-dunaway-burnham-piano-festival-student-piano-recital/ LOCATION:S. Judson Dunaway Center\, 23 School Street\, Ogunquit\, ME\, 03907\, United States CATEGORIES:Elizabeth Dunaway Burnham Piano Festival,Live Performance ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://ogunquitperformingarts.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/06/steinway.jpeg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20210911T090000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20210911T140000 DTSTAMP:20260526T164958 CREATED:20210621T200248Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240219T150815Z UID:10000135-1631350800-1631368800@ogunquitperformingarts.org SUMMARY:The Capriccio Festival of Kites at Ogunquit Beach with the Folk Music of Andy Happel DESCRIPTION:Kite-flying and Music for the Whole Family! \nThis delightful\, annual Festival features  professional kite flying demonstrations\, with multiples\, and oversized kites filling the sky.  Children are provided with free\, white kites\, along with colorful markers and crayons.  They can decorate their own kites\, which are then entered into a contest of many categories and prizes.  Kites are also available for sale at the beach\, so that no one is left out of the fun.  At the end comes the climactic Grand Ascension\, filling the sky with everyone’s kite in the air at the same time.  \nFiddler/singer Andy Happel will provide high-flying music on Ogunquit Beach for the Capriccio Festival of Kites. Andy plans to bring along some musician friends to join in the joyous fun\, playing selections from his repertoire of exotic tunes and lilting rhythms. \nJoin Andy at the Capriccio Festival of Kites\, where songs and kites will fill the air! \n  \n \n \n \n \n \n A little sample of music from Andy Happel URL:https://ogunquitperformingarts.org/event/the-capriccio-festival-of-kites-at-ogunquit-beach-with-the-folk-music-of-andy-happel/ LOCATION:Ogunquit Beach\, Beach Street\, Ogunquit\, ME\, 03907 CATEGORIES:Capriccio ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://ogunquitperformingarts.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/06/kites.jpeg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20191103T140000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20191103T140000 DTSTAMP:20260526T164958 CREATED:20190915T193855Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240219T150820Z UID:10000128-1572789600-1572789600@ogunquitperformingarts.org SUMMARY:The Philadelphia Story DESCRIPTION:The Philadelphia Story (1940) \n \nIn one of her most famous roles\, Katharine Hepburn plays Tracy Lord\, the daughter of a well-to-do Pennsylvania family in The Philadelphia Story (1940). The young socialite is about to embark on a second marriage and the lucky groom is George Kittredge (John Howard)\, a comparatively staid but extremely wealthy gentleman. Her first husband was C.K. Dexter Haven (Cary Grant) who is certainly more colorful than Kittredge if slightly less responsible. When Dexter makes an unexpected appearance at the Lord’s home on the eve of Tracy’s wedding\, it is not so much to wish her well as to shield her from the prying eyes of an overly ambitious reporter (James Stewart) assigned to cover the nuptials. \nThe Philadelphia Story was based on a screenplay by Phillip Barry who wrote the play specifically for Katharine Hepburn. The actress was so impressed with the script she agreed to finance part of the stage production herself and did not draw a salary. She did receive a portion of the profits which were significant due to the play’s huge success on Broadway. This came at a critical point in Hepburn’s career which had faltered during the previous few years. In 1938\, she was labeled “box office poison” by the Independent Theatre Owners of America after several commercial failures. \nRealizing the potential of The Philadelphia Story\, Hepburn purchased the motion picture rights to the property and approached Louis B. Mayer\, head of MGM\, with a deal. She agreed to sell Mayer the rights to the property for the very modest amount of $250\,000\, in exchange for the authority to select her own director\, screenwriter and cast. Securing control over the production\, Hepburn chose George Cukor to direct. The two had worked together in Hepburn’s first film role\, A Bill of Divorcement (1932) and then again in the 1933 version of Little Women.Hepburn chose Donald Ogden Stewart to write. He was a friend of Philip Barry’s and was a master at preserving an original play’s integrity when adapting it to the screen. \nHepburn approached Cary Grant for the role of Tracy’s former husband and Grant accepted on two conditions. First\, that he receive top billing and second\, that he be paid $137\,000 which was considered an extremely generous salary at the time. Interestingly\, upon receiving his salary\, Grant donated the entire amount to the British War Relief Fund. \nHepburn had become interested in Jimmy Stewart for the part of the newshound ever since the actor had received accolades and an Oscar® nomination for his portrayal of an idealistic senator in Mr. Smith Goes to Washington the previous year. \nWhen the film was released\, it broke the previous box office record held at Radio City Music Hall where it earned $600\,000 in six weeks. It also proved that Katharine Hepburn knew how to deliver a hit when given the opportunity and was just the opposite of box office poison. The Philadelphia Story also did well at the Academy Awards® that year. The film earned 6 nominations including Best Picture\, Best Director\, Best Screenplay\, Best Actor\, Best Actress and Best Supporting Actress. \nJimmy Stewart scored a Best Actor Oscar to the surprise of many including the actor himself who stated that he had voted for Henry Fonda in The Grapes of Wrath. Many thought the Academy was trying to make amends for not awarding Stewart the Oscar® for his role in Mr. Smith Goes to Washington the prior year. by Mary Anne Melear for TCM URL:https://ogunquitperformingarts.org/event/the-philadelphia-story/ LOCATION:S. Judson Dunaway Center\, 23 School Street\, Ogunquit\, ME\, 03907\, United States CATEGORIES:Classic Film Series ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://ogunquitperformingarts.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/09/The-Philadelphia-Story-1940-1.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20191012T193000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20191012T193000 DTSTAMP:20260526T164958 CREATED:20190219T225228Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240219T150820Z UID:10000127-1570908600-1570908600@ogunquitperformingarts.org SUMMARY:13th Annual Elizabeth Dunaway Burnham Piano Festival Janice Weber DESCRIPTION:International concert pianist Janice Weber returns to Ogunquit with a virtuoso evening entitled “A Night at the Movies”\, offering a dazzling array of classic themes from classic films including The Birds\, Dr. Zhivago\, and a special salute to Hamilton! \n \nWorld-class pianist Janice Weber returns for her fourth appearance in Ogunquit\, this time bringing with her a dazzling program of Pops Classics associated with a variety of great films. This vivacious performer has a reputation for programing the most exciting and technically challenging selections – which will no doubt apply even to this lighter program! \n“Ms. Weber is also a concert pianist of cliffhanging panache and daredevil brilliance.” Ellen Pfeifer\, The Wall Street Journal \nTickets to this performance available now on this website. Tickets may also be purchased at the Ogunquit Camera Shop\, Dunaway Center\, Ogunquit Playhouse Downtown Box Office\, and Ogunquit Welcome Center beginning three weeks prior to the performance. Free parking for the performance is located behind the Dunaway Center. \nA summa cum laude graduate of the Eastman School of Music\, Janice Weber has performed at the White House\, Carnegie Hall\, Wigmore Hall\, National Gallery of Art\, and Boston’s Symphony Hall. She has appeared with the Boston Pops\, Chautauqua Symphony\, New Jersey Symphony\, Hilton Head Orchestra\, Sarajevo Philharmonic\, and Syracuse Symphony. She has performed at the Bard\, Newport\, La Gesse\, Husum\, and Monadnock summer festivals and has twice toured China under the auspices of the American Liszt Society. \nHer world premiere recording of Liszt’s 1838 Transcendental Etudes elicited acclaim from Time Magazine: “Liszt later simplified these pieces into the still ferociously difficult Transcendental Etudes (1852 version) for fear that no one else could play them. There may now be several fire-eating piano virtuosos who can execute the original notes\, but few can liberate the prophetic music they contain as masterfully as Janice Weber does here.” \nMs. Weber recorded Liszt’s last Hungarian Rhapsody\, one of only two living pianists to be included in a compendium of historic performances by nineteen legendary artists. This disc subsequently won the International Liszt Prize. \n \nHer recordings also include Rachmaninoff’s complete transcriptions; with the Lydian Quartet\, Leo Ornstein’s vast Piano Quintet; flute and piano works of Sigfrid Karg-Elert; and waltz transcriptions of Godowsky\, Rosenthal\, and Friedman.\nHer Naxos recording of Leo Ornstein’s radical works introduced the charismatic composer to a worldwide audience. She is heard in Messiaen’s Quartet for the End of Time on Ongaku Records and her newest disc\, Cascade of Roses (Dorian Sono Luminus)\,features works of twenty-one composers from Adolf Jensen to Billy Mayerl. \nShe is a member of the piano faculty at Boston Conservatory and MIT. \nMs. Weber is also a published author. Her novels\, most of which have something to do with music\, have a worldwide following. She also produced the tones for Ivory\, the worldwide bestselling virtual piano software. \nShe is a Steinway artist. \nwww.janiceweber.com \nOur Piano Festival honors the memory of Elizabeth Dunaway Burnham\, founder and first chairperson of Ogunquit Performing Arts. A pianist herself\, Betty studied\, performed and taught piano for most of her life. She also saw to it that OPA acquired its spectacular Steinway Concert Model C Grand Piano\, which still remains OPA’s greatest treasure.\nBook online now! URL:https://ogunquitperformingarts.org/event/13th-annual-elizabeth-dunaway-burnham-piano-festival-janice-weber/ LOCATION:S. Judson Dunaway Center\, 23 School Street\, Ogunquit\, ME\, 03907\, United States CATEGORIES:Live Performance ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://ogunquitperformingarts.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/02/Janice-Weber-Photo-by-Lynn-Wayne_Resized.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20191006T150000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20191006T150000 DTSTAMP:20260526T164958 CREATED:20190219T224006Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240219T150820Z UID:10000126-1570374000-1570374000@ogunquitperformingarts.org SUMMARY:13th Annual Elizabeth Dunaway Burnham Piano Festival Student Piano Recital DESCRIPTION:Showcasing Southern Maine’s finest young pianists! \n \nThe Festival continues on Sunday afternoon\, October 6th at 3 pm with the Student Piano Recital\, featuring the area’s best young pianists performing on OPA’s fabled Steinway. It is here that talented local students have the opportunity to perform on a world-class piano in front of a live audience. Admission to this performance is free. \nThe Festival honors the memory of Elizabeth Dunaway Burnham\, founder and first chairperson of Ogunquit Performing Arts. A pianist herself\, Betty studied\, performed and taught piano for most of her life. She also saw to it that OPA acquired its spectacular Steinway Concert Model C Grand Piano\, which still remains OPA’s greatest treasure. \nFree parking for the performance is located behind the Dunaway Center. URL:https://ogunquitperformingarts.org/event/13th-annual-elizabeth-dunaway-burnham-piano-festival-student-piano-recital/ LOCATION:S. Judson Dunaway Center\, 23 School Street\, Ogunquit\, ME\, 03907\, United States ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://ogunquitperformingarts.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/02/piano-keys_Resized.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20191004T193000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20191004T193000 DTSTAMP:20260526T164958 CREATED:20190219T222802Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240219T150821Z UID:10000125-1570217400-1570217400@ogunquitperformingarts.org SUMMARY:13th Annual Elizabeth Dunaway Burnham Piano Festival George Lopez DESCRIPTION:Bowdoin College Artist-in-Residence George Lopez returns to Ogunquit to play American Pops Piano Music\, from Joplin to Gershwin! \n \nPianist George Lopez\, the Robert Beckwith Artist-in-Residence at Bowdoin College & Director of the Bowdoin Orchestra\, has been a dynamic performer and educator for over 25 years. He is known on several continents for his thoughtful and deeply expressive performances of the standard repertoire as well as being a champion of newly-written works. He recently premiered a piano concerto composed especially for him and is comfortable in styles of music ranging from jazz and ragtime to more contemporary improvisational styles. \nHis program for OPA is entitled “The History of American Popular Piano Music”\, and includes such composers as Louis Moreau Gottschalk\, Scott Joplin\, Charles Ives\, George Gershwin\, Zez Confrey’s “Dizzy Fingers”\, Keith Jarrett and Billy Joel! \nTickets to this performance available now on this website. Tickets may also be purchased at the Ogunquit Camera Shop\, Dunaway Center\, Ogunquit Playhouse Downtown Box Office\, and Ogunquit Welcome Center beginning three weeks prior to the performance. Free parking for the performance is located behind the Dunaway Center. \nLopez has given recitals and performed in chamber ensembles and with orchestras in the United States\, Europe\, and Australia. His interpretation of Bach’s Goldberg Variations at the Concertgebouw in Amsterdam received critical acclaim\, and a Los Angeles Times critic hailed the pianist for his “…musical perspective\, continuity\, and kaleidoscopic colors.” \nBorn in Brooklyn to Mayan parents\, George Lopez spent his childhood in Belize\, before his family moved to Texas\, where he began to play the piano at the rather late age of 11. He quickly discovered that he had a knack performing at the keyboard and\, by age 14\, he had won his first concerto competition; only two years later\, he received a full scholarship to the Hartt School of Music. A Franco-American study grant permitted graduate work in Paris\, and he completed his Master’s Degree cum laude at the Sweelinck Conservatory\, Amsterdam. \n \nThis year\, he has toured Philadelphia\, New York City\, the Bay Area\, Seattle\, Mexico and New England\, as well as making his first visit to Cuba recently to give masterclasses and concerts with the Aries Trio. His “Music in the Museum” series at Bowdoin College has consistently sold out to audiences who enjoy his creative and engaging lecture recitals on the relationship of music to art and ideas. He has also taken up the baton as conductor of the Bowdoin College Symphony Orchestra. \nhttps://www.bowdoin.edu/profiles/faculty/glopez/index.html \nOur Piano Festival honors the memory of Elizabeth Dunaway Burnham\, founder and first chairperson of Ogunquit Performing Arts. A pianist herself\, Betty studied\, performed and taught piano for most of her life. She also saw to it that OPA acquired its spectacular Steinway Concert Model C Grand Piano\, which still remains OPA’ greatest treasure.\nBook online now! URL:https://ogunquitperformingarts.org/event/13th-annual-elizabeth-dunaway-burnham-piano-festival-george-lopez/ LOCATION:S. Judson Dunaway Center\, 23 School Street\, Ogunquit\, ME\, 03907\, United States CATEGORIES:Live Performance ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://ogunquitperformingarts.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/02/george-lopez_Resized.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20190913T193000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20190913T193000 DTSTAMP:20260526T164958 CREATED:20190219T220913Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240219T150821Z UID:10000124-1568403000-1568403000@ogunquitperformingarts.org SUMMARY:29th Annual Capriccio Music Festival Andy Happel & Los Galactacos String Band DESCRIPTION:Featuring voice\, guitar\, violin\, cello\, dobro\, cuatro\, upright bass\, acoustic bass\, guitarron\, drums and percussion! \n \nLos Galactacos is a musical group made of adventuring stringbenders\, strummers\, pickers and percussionists exploring an atlas of musical styles and songs.\nTheir repertoire is the standards of cultures from across the Americas\, and across the seas: Tex/Mex folk; Appalachian string music; Canadian maritimes fiddle tunes; the Classic American Songbook; ol’ time Country; and music for wherever people gather and celebrate. \nTickets to this performance available now on this website. Tickets may also be purchased at the Ogunquit Camera Shop\, Dunaway Center\, Ogunquit Playhouse Downtown Box Office\, and Ogunquit Welcome Center beginning three weeks prior to the performance. Free parking for the performance is located behind the Dunaway Center. \nFounded in summer 2015 on a lark to enjoy some late-summer soirees\, the excursion was quickly underway with multi-instrumentalist Andy Happel as navigator. A true translator and ambassador of musical ideas\, Happel has infused his music with elegant fire – ranging from Capitol Records’ Thanks to Gravity and modern classical label PARMA\, to his work with the Don Campbell Band\, and his ever-expanding teaching studio. Joining him are Drew Wyman (Thanks to Gravity\, the Cozmik Zombies)\, Todd the Rocket (The Downbeat Renaissance)\, and Pete Witham (The Cozmik Zombies\, Spookie Daly Pride) along with a cast of guests. \nAlready in their adventure\, the group has entertained at the Wentworth By The Sea Hotel (Newcastle\, NH)\, Wentworth Marina\, The Wentworth (Jackson\, NH)\, two seasons residency at El Rayo in Scarborough\, Maine\, and a collection of private residences. \n \nAndy Happel is a concert violinist and fiddler who has shared the stage with symphonies\, pop stars and country music luminaries alike. As bandleader for 90s rock group Thanks to Gravity\, Andy was signed to Capitol Records and EMI Publishing and toured extensively with the likes of Guster\, Train\, Matchbox 20 and the Dave Matthews Band. A successful run with country singer Don Campbell followed\, where he opened for country legends Willie Nelson\, Randy Travis\, George Jones and Charlie Daniels. He currently performs with classical improv group Aeterna Trio\, and several other independent projects. \nAndy is also Lead Producer with new classical music label PARMA Recordings. He has worked with the Moravian Philharmonic in the Czech Republic\, the Metropolitan Opera Children’s Chorus and the New England String Quartet\, among others.\nBook online now! URL:https://ogunquitperformingarts.org/event/29th-annual-capriccio-music-festival-andy-happel-los-galactacos-string-band/ LOCATION:S. Judson Dunaway Center\, 23 School Street\, Ogunquit\, ME\, 03907\, United States ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://ogunquitperformingarts.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/02/Los-Galactacos-Resized.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20190907T100000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20190907T113000 DTSTAMP:20260526T164958 CREATED:20190219T193337Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240219T150821Z UID:10000123-1567850400-1567855800@ogunquitperformingarts.org SUMMARY:29th Annual Capriccio Music Festival Andy Happel and Friends DESCRIPTION:Singer/fiddler Andy Happel makes a special appearance at Capriccio Festival of Kites \n \nFiddler/singer Andy Happel will provide high-flying music on Ogunquit Beach for the Capriccio Festival of Kites on Saturday\, September 7th \, from 10 to 11:30 am. Andy plans to bring along some musician friends to join in the joyous fun\, playing selections from his repertoire of exotic tunes and lilting rhythms. \nHis appearance will serve as a preview of his full-length concert with Los Galactacos String Band Friday\, September 13th\, 7:30 pm at the Dunaway Center. The Band will perform a variety of beautiful songs and rousing rhythms from across the Americas\, and across the seas: Tex/Mex folk; Appalachian string music; Canadian maritimes fiddle tunes; the Classic American Songbook; ol’ time Country; and music for wherever people gather and celebrate. \nIn the meantime\, join Andy at the Capriccio Festival of Kites\, where songs and kites will fill the air! URL:https://ogunquitperformingarts.org/event/29th-annual-capriccio-music-festival-andy-happel-and-friends/ LOCATION:Ogunquit Beach\, Beach Street\, Ogunquit\, ME\, 03907 CATEGORIES:Live Performance ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://ogunquitperformingarts.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/02/andy-happel.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20190906T193000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20190906T193000 DTSTAMP:20260526T164958 CREATED:20190219T130828Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240219T150821Z UID:10000122-1567798200-1567798200@ogunquitperformingarts.org SUMMARY:29th Annual Capriccio Music Festival Paul Sullivan and Con Fullam DESCRIPTION:Grammy-winning Composer/Pianist Paul Sullivan and Emmy-nominated Songwriter/Guitarist Con Fullam in a return performance together! \n \nPaul Sullivan has enjoyed a richly varied and distinguished career as a composer and a pianist. In his solo performances\, he creates a relaxed and intimate feeling with his audience through his pleasant and quirky observations about music and life. His warm and inviting personality\, coupled with his world-class musicianship\, wins over new listeners immediately and usually makes them life-long fans. \nCon Fullam is a most talented and accomplished wordsmith and songwriter\, but it’s when he himself performs his music that the listener’s experience is most touching\, whether his musical stories are wistful\, joyous\, loving\, blue or hopeful. He is a powerful entertainer and guitarist.\nHearing either of them live in concert is a special occasion. But when they join forces\, they create a musical event which is simply not to be missed. OPA is proud and fortunate to bring them together as a part of the Capriccio Music Festival. \nTickets to this performance available now on this website. Tickets may also be purchased at the Ogunquit Camera Shop\, Dunaway Center\, Ogunquit Playhouse Downtown Box Office\, and Ogunquit Welcome Center beginning three weeks prior to the performance. Free parking for the performance is located behind the Dunaway Center. \n \nAs a soloist\, with his trio\, and as a member of the Paul Winter Consort\, Paul Sullivan has played concert tours in most of the United States and Europe\, as well as the Middle East\, Central America\, and Asia. He has performed among the dunes of the Negev Desert\, in Leonard Bernstein’s living room\, and on the stages of many of the world’s finest concert halls. He has been a guest on Marian McPartland’s “Piano Jazz”\, and he has also performed with some legendary orchestras\, such as the Philadelphia Orchestra under Eugene Ormandy\, the Boston Pops under both Arthur Fiedler and Keith Lockhart\, and several regional orchestras around the US.\nSullivan has worked in some of New York’s most prestigious jazz clubs as well\, including Sweet Basil\, The Village Vanguard\, and Bradley’s. He has played with a wide variety of masters from Benny Goodman to Tommy Flanagan\, as well as Red Mitchell\, Lou Donaldson\, George Mraz\, Gerry Hemingway\, Marc Helias\, Gene Bertoncini\, Eugene Friesen\, Jamie Haddad\, Luciana Sousa\, Cafe\, Sarah Lee Guthrie\, Noel Stookey\, Don McLean\, Pheeroan AkLaff\, Eddie Daniels\, Richard Stoltzman\, Nana Vasconcelos\, Cyro Baptista\, Ivan Lins\, Glen Velez and many other luminaries. His 18 CDs have sold over 300 thousand copies and have won 3 Indie Awards. His music has been broadcast internationally\, as well as on all the major American networks\, including National Public Radio. He received a Grammy Award for his work on the Paul Winter Consort CD\, Silver Solstice.\nIn the theater world\, he has worked as a Musical Director\, pianist\, and/or conductor for many Off-Broadway and Broadway shows. He played keyboards and shared the conducting duties for the original production of the musical Nine\, which won a Tony Award for Best Musical. Some of the other shows he’s worked on include Cats\, A Chorus Line\, Rags\, and a cabaret with Lewis Black. Other theater credits include accompanying Joseph Papp and even appearing as a character on the TV soap opera One Life To Live.\nSullivan also received commissions to write two musicals\, including “The Last Ferryman” for which he wrote both the music and lyrics\, which are available on CD.\nHe has also worked extensively in the Modern Dance world\, playing piano for Merce Cunningham’s classes\, and writing music for the Rockettes at Radio City Music Hall. He has also enjoyed a long friendship with the Pilobolus Dance Theater\, for whom he has written close to 20 scores.\nA long\, lovely\, lucky career\, which shows no signs of stopping. \n \n“Con Fullam is one of the most diverse and talented songwriters that I have had the pleasure to publish”. Lou Ragusa\, President Infinity/MCA Music.\n“Fullam’s songs are passionate and intelligent.” Billboard Magazine\n.Fullam has been playing and performing since he was 5 years old. It was at that age that his father died leaving him his ukelele. He was born on a farm in Sydney\, Maine population 60 or so people\, 600 or so cows and thousands of acres of fields\, and woods. He spent a lot of that time playing his ukelele and singing songs he learned from his family\, all of whom played an instrument. His brother and sister loved folk music\, bluegrass and the blues and so he learned the songs of Woody Guthrie\, Pete Seeger\, Cisco Houston\, The Weavers\, Flatt and Scruggs\, Ralph Stanley\, The Carter Family\, Sonny Terry and Brownie McGhee\, Josh White Sr.\,  Hudie Ledbetter and Lightnin’ Hopkins to name a few. \nHis mother was a pianist whose taste ran towards Classical music and Broadway. And so he learned to love Bach\, Beethoven and Scarlatti\, The Pirates of Penzance\, My Fair Lady and Oklahoma. \nCon’s musical education continued with enrollment at The New Division\, an experimental college in Springvale\, Maine founded by a behavioral scientist from Harvard by the name of Tom Howard. There\, he pushed himself to step up and learn new chords and progressions on the guitar as well as hone his skills at wordsmithing. It was there with a lot of support from his fellow students that he realized that playing and writing were the things that made him the happiest and that it was down that road he would travel. In the forty years that have passed since that first semester he has never looked back. \n“Over the course of my career\, I have had the honor of playing with some of the finest musicians in the business and I have been blessed to call many of them my close and cherished friends. It is those friends that I have called on to help me realize this dream….” Con Fullam\nCon is now published by MCA Universal\, Sony/BMG\, Warner/Chappell\, Acuff Rose\, Opryland\, and Chrysalis Music. He has had his songs recorded by major recording artists and has produced records that have sold over a half million units. He has played with and shared stages with the likes of Asleep At The Wheel\, Joan Armatrading\, Aztec Two Step\, Razzy Bailey\, David Bromberg\, Johnny Cash\, George Carlin\, Bob Dylan\, Richie Havens\, Emmy Lou Harris with Gram Parsons\, Waylon Jennings\, Jorma Kaukenon\, Willie Nelson\, The Nitty Gritty Dirt Band\, Sonny Terry and Brownie McGhee\, John Sebastian\, Earl Scruggs Review and Tammy Wynette. \nCon has been critically acclaimed in many of the music industry’s most prestigious publications such as Billboard\, Music Row\, Village Voice\, Boston Phoenix\, Canadian Country News\, Cashbox Magazine\, and Nashville Music City News. He has been nominated for an Emmy and has been recognized by The American Society Of Composers Authors And Publishers for his contributions to the world of the performing arts.\nBook online now! URL:https://ogunquitperformingarts.org/event/29th-annual-capriccio-music-festival-paul-sullivan-and-con-fullam/ LOCATION:S. Judson Dunaway Center\, 23 School Street\, Ogunquit\, ME\, 03907\, United States CATEGORIES:Live Performance ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://ogunquitperformingarts.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/02/Paul-Sullivan-courtesy-Sun-Journal.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20190614T193000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20190614T193000 DTSTAMP:20260526T164958 CREATED:20190212T001310Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240219T150840Z UID:10000121-1560540600-1560540600@ogunquitperformingarts.org SUMMARY:25th Annual Chamber Music Festival ChoralArt Camerata DESCRIPTION:First performance in Ogunquit by Portland’s ChoralArt Camerata singers\, Robert Russell\, Music Director \n \nPortland’s ChoralArt Camerata\, under the direction of Robert Russell\, will make their first appearance in Ogunquit in the lovely setting of the Barn Gallery. A chamber chorus of about 15 singers\, Camerata features strong singers and independent musicians; their pristine\, resonant sound and utter musicality have garnered regional critical acclaim. Like all the ensembles under the ChoralArt umbrella\, Camerata is dedicated to advancing the tradition of artistic excellence in choral singing. Their program will be listed on this site in the near future. \nTickets to this performance available now on this website. Tickets may also be purchased at the Barn Gallery\, Ogunquit Camera Shop\, Dunaway Center\, Ogunquit Playhouse Downtown Box Office\, and Ogunquit Welcome Center beginning three weeks prior to the performance.  Free parking at the Gallery. \nAt 15 singers\, Camerata is the smallest of the three ChoralArt ensembles (which also include ChoralArt Masterworks\, a symphonic chorus of 100 voices\, and ChoralArt Singers\, a mixed chorus of about 45 voices.)\nThe Camerata principally performs a cappella repertory from the Renaissance and Modern eras with occasional forays into ethnic and folk music. Favorite composers include Ēriks Ešenvalds\, Morten Lauridsen\, James MacMillan\, Paul Mealor\, David Conte\, and Stephen Paulus.\nMusic Director Robert Russell came to Portland in 1979 as professor of music at the University of Southern Maine and music director of ChoralArt. He concluded a 36-year tenure at USM in 2015 and was named professor emeritus. His time in Portland has been rich\, the highlights many. \n \nChoralArt has presented numerous concerts with orchestra\, many under the auspices of the Portland Symphony Orchestra. The first Messiah performance in 1982 stunned us all\, as we filled City Hall Auditorium (Merrill’s predecessor) with patrons and glorious music.\nOther notable performances include Verdi’s Requiem\, Mahler’s Symphony No. 2\, Bach’s Mass in B Minor\, Bach’s Passion According to St. John\, Mendelssohn’s Elijah\, and the Brahms Requiem several times\, including a riveting performance in 1991 with distinguished guest conductor Robert Shaw. Several collaborative concerts with Portland Ballet\, including a dynamic Carmina Burana in 2003\, as well as concerts with Friends of the Kotzschmar Organ\, Southern Maine Symphony Orchestra\, USM Wind Ensemble\, Musica de Filia and many other regional organization stand out.\nBook online now! URL:https://ogunquitperformingarts.org/event/25th-annual-chamber-music-festival-choralart-camerata/ LOCATION:The Barn Gallery\, 3 Hartwig Lane (off Bourne Lane at Shore Road)\, Ogunquit\, Maine\, 03907 CATEGORIES:Live Performance ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://ogunquitperformingarts.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/02/ChoralArts-Camerata-Copy_Revised-1.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20190607T193000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20190607T193000 DTSTAMP:20260526T164958 CREATED:20190211T230712Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240219T150840Z UID:10000030-1559935800-1559935800@ogunquitperformingarts.org SUMMARY:25th Annual Chamber Music Festival Boston Chamber Music DESCRIPTION:Cellist Bruce Coppock leads the Boston Chamber Music trio with Matthew Vera\, violin\, and Randall Hodgkinson\, piano. \nOgunquit’s favorite Boston Chamber Music returns to the Dunaway Center for its 20th year of opening the Festival. This year the trio is led by acclaimed cellist Bruce Coppock\, with Matthew Vera\, violin\, and Randall Hodgkinson\, piano. As with his predecessor Thomas Hill\, Mr. Coppock continues the tradition of bringing together the finest ensembles especially selected for this concert. Their program will include:\nBEETHOVEN Piano Trio in D Major\, Opus 70 #1 “Ghost”\nDEBUSSY Pour le Piano\nBRAHMS Piano Trio in B major\, Opus 8. \nTickets to this performance available now on this website. Tickets may also be purchased at the Ogunquit Camera Shop\, Dunaway Center\, Ogunquit Playhouse Downtown Box Office\, and Ogunquit Welcome Center beginning three weeks prior to the performance.   Free parking for the performance is located behind the Dunaway Center. \n \nBruce Coppock has enjoyed a long musical career as performer\, teacher and management executive. He served twice as president & managing director of the Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra\, a position in which he served both as the artistic and the executive director. Coppock first led the SPCO from 1999 until 2008\, when he stepped down due to illness. After a five-year hiatus during which Coppock focused on medical issues\, served a consultant to several orchestras\, and served as managing director of the Cleveland Orchestra’s Miami Residency\, Coppock resumed his tenure in Saint Paul in 2013. He retired from the SPCO at the end of 2015. Prior to Saint Paul\, Coppock was deputy director of Carnegie Hall and executive director of the Saint Louis Symphony\, and has happily retired to New England. \nDuring the 20 years prior to 1990\, Coppock served as principal cellist of the Handel & Haydn Society\, as a member of the Boston Musica Viva and played regularly in the Boston Symphony Orchestra. Coppock co-founded the Boston Chamber Music Society. During this period he also served as the director of chamber music and orchestra activities at the New England Conservatory of Music\, and was director of the Music Division of the Boston Conservatory of Music. Coppock has been active as a teacher for over 40 years. Coppock earned his Bachelor’s and Master’s degrees in cello from the New England Conservatory\, where he was a student of David Soyer and Laurence Lesser. \nViolinist​ ​Matthew​ ​Vera​\, is known for his versatility as a soloist\, chamber musician\, and orchestral leader. Currently a masters student at the New England Conservatory\, Matthew also enjoys a freelance career in the Boston area. His primary teachers include: James Buswell\, Lucy Chapman\, Mark Rush\, Stephen Moeckel\, Dennis Bourret\, and David Rife. Matthew has been a member of the Boston Philharmonic’s first violin section since 2010. He recently stepped in on short notice to play the famous violin solos in Ein Heldenleben at Boston Philhamonic concerts to widespread acclaim: “Playing with pure tone\, terrific character\, and not a bit of hesitation (several of the third movement’s biggest runs were dispatched at lightning speed)\, Vera delivered an account of the solo part that was wholly captivating. His is — or should be — a bright future.” (Boston Arts Fuse); “Matthew Vera projected non-stop\, drop-dead gorgeous tone\, alternately flippant and ravishing\, as directed. A virtual golden spotlight enwreathed him in laurels.” (The Boston Musical Intelligencer). \nMatthew has appeared as soloist with the Buffalo Philharmonic\, The Tucson Philharmonia\, The Tucson Symphony\, The World Youth Symphony Orchestra and The New England Conservatory Symphony.Matthew has appeared as soloist with the Buffalo Philharmonic\, The Tucson Philharmonia\, The Tucson Symphony\, The World Youth Symphony Orchestra and The New England Conservatory Symphony. \n \nRandall Hodgkinson has achieved recognition as a winner of the International American Music Competition for pianists sponsored by the Rockefeller Foundation. He has appeared frequently as soloist and chamber music artist in festivals throughout the United States\, and as a featured soloist with major orchestras including those of Philadelphia\, Atlanta\, Buffalo\, the American Symphony\, the Orchestra of Illinois\, and abroad in Italy and Iceland. His solo debut with the Boston Symphony Orchestra was presented both in Boston and at Carnegie Hall.\nMr. Hodgkinson studied at The Curtis Institute and the New England Conservatory. He has been an artist member of the Boston Chamber Music Society since 1983. While a member of Boston Musica Viva\, he performed throughout the U.S. and Europe\, and his recordings on several labels have brought him notable acclaim.\nHe also performs four-hand and two-piano literature in duo recitals with his wife\, Leslie Amper. He is a member of the piano faculty of the New England Conservatory and Wellesley College.\nBook online now! URL:https://ogunquitperformingarts.org/event/25th-annual-chamber-music-festival-boston-chamber-music/ LOCATION:S. Judson Dunaway Center\, 23 School Street\, Ogunquit\, ME\, 03907\, United States CATEGORIES:Live Performance ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://ogunquitperformingarts.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/02/Bruce-Coppock-2.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20190517T193000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20190517T193000 DTSTAMP:20260526T164958 CREATED:20190211T212417Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240219T150841Z UID:10000029-1558121400-1558121400@ogunquitperformingarts.org SUMMARY:Jason Anick & The Rhythm Future Quartet DESCRIPTION:Gypsy Jazz returns to Ogunquit\, led by violinist Jason Anick\, with guitar\, bass\, and Matt DeChamplain at the piano. \n \nJason Anick and the Rhythm Future Quartet return for their third engagement with Ogunquit Performing Arts in recent years. These dynamic performers have received national acclaim for their lilting rhythms\, virtuoso musicianship\, and vibrant musical combinations. \nTickets to this performance available now on this website. Tickets may also be purchased at the Ogunquit Camera Shop\, Dunaway Center\, Ogunquit Playhouse Downtown Box Office\, and Ogunquit Welcome Center beginning three weeks prior to the performance. Free parking for the performance is located behind the Dunaway Center. \nA favorite of Ogunquit audiences\, the acoustic jazz ensemble\, Rhythm Future Quartet has a straightforward agenda: to keep the spirit of Gypsy jazz alive and expanding in today’s musical universe. The virtuosic foursome\, named for a Django Reinhardt tune\, offers up a newly minted sound\, influenced by the classic Hot Club of France\, yet wholly contemporary.\nLed by violinist Jason Anick and guitarist Olli Soikkeli\, the quartet performs dynamic and lyrical arrangements of both Gypsy jazz standards and original compositions that draw upon diverse international rhythms and musical idioms. With Greg Loughman on bass\, and guest performer Matt DeChamplain on piano\, Rhythm Future is dedicated to expanding the boundaries of a vital musical genre. \nThe Fall of 2018 marked the release of their newest album\, “Rhythm Future Quartet and Friends”\, which features the critically acclaimed singer Cyrille Aimée\, brazil’s top bandolimist Hamilton de Holanda\, and guitarist Stochelo Rosenberg. While maintaining the effervescent lilt\, virtuosic musicianship and adventurous musical leanings of their previous recordings\, Rhythm Future Quartet and Travels (picked as one of the best jazz albums of 2016 by All About Jazz and the Huffington Post)\, RFQ and Friends brings vibrant new colors to the mix. \n \nWith its arresting blend of Hot Club of France styled string jazz\, Brazilian and East European idioms\, original compositions and hints of classical music\, the album marks a significant moment in the growth of a continually evolving ensemble. (And one with continually increasing popularity: the quartet’s version of Django’s “Minor Swing” has over four million views on YouTube\, while their video clip of “Bushwick Stomp” from Travels has over three million Facebook views.) \nJason Anick\, an award-winning composer and one of the youngest violin professors at the esteemed Berklee College of Music in Boston\, has shared the stage with an array of artists including Grammy award winning guitarist John Jorgenson\, Stevie Wonder\, The Jim Kweskin Jug Band\, and Tommy Emmanuel. After relocating from Scandinavia Olli Soikkeli quickly became a top call guitarist in the bustling Brooklyn jazz scene. He has performed alongside Cyrille Aimee\, and the celebrated guitarists Frank Vignola and Bucky Pizzarelli\, and many prominent contemporary players. \n \nPianist Matt DeChamplain is from Hartford\, Connecticut. He obtained his bachelors degree from the Jackie McLean Institute of Jazz at the Hartt School in 2010 and graduated with his masters from the University of Toledo in Ohio in 2012. Matt has performed at the Berks Jazz Festival\, New York’s JVC Jazz Festival\, Jazz at Lincoln Center\, Django By The Sea Gypsy Jazz Festival and jazz clubs such as the Regatta Bar\, The Side Door\, Dizzy’s Club Coca Cola\, Smalls and Yoshi’s. Currently Matt holds a faculty position at The Hartt School of Music (University of Hartford) and has taught at The Greater Hartford Academy of the Arts\, The Artist’s Collective (founded by Jackie McLean)\, the Litchfield Jazz Camp and New Hampshire and Maine’s Jazz All-State programs. While maintaining an active performance and teaching schedule\, Matt continues to arrange and compose.\nBook online now! URL:https://ogunquitperformingarts.org/event/jason-anick-the-rhythm-future-quartet/ LOCATION:S. Judson Dunaway Center\, 23 School Street\, Ogunquit\, ME\, 03907\, United States CATEGORIES:Live Performance ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://ogunquitperformingarts.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/02/jason-anick-rhythm-future-quartet-2.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20190505T140000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20190505T140000 DTSTAMP:20260526T164959 CREATED:20181212T010415Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240219T150841Z UID:10000028-1557064800-1557064800@ogunquitperformingarts.org SUMMARY:Classic Film: Yentl DESCRIPTION:Yentl  is a 1983 romantic musical drama film from United Artists co-written\, co-produced and starring Barbra Streisand based on the play of the same name by Leah Napolin and Isaac Bashevis Singer\, itself based on Singer’s short story.  The film’s musical score and songs were composed by Michel Legrand.   The film also stars Mandy Patinkin\, Amy Irving\, and Nehemiah Persoff. \nThe film received the Academy Award for Best Original Score\, and the Golden Globe Awards for Best Motion Picture – Musical or Comedy\, and Best Director for Streisand\, making her the first woman to have won Best Director at the Golden Globes. \n“’This has to be a musical!’ Marilyn and Alan Bergman exclaimed in unison to Barbra Streisand when she showed the songwriters the script for Yentl.  This project\, developed from Isaac Bashevis Singer’s Yentl (1983)\, the Yeshiva Boy\, had been dear to Streisand’s heart since she first optioned the story in 1968.  It tells of a young Jewish woman in Poland who\, after the loss of her father\, disguises herself as a boy so she can go to a Yeshiva (Jewish school for priests) and study the Torah.  S \ntreisand\, who ended up directing\, co-producing and co-writing the film as well as starring in it\, had planned it as an intimate\, non-musical drama until the Bergmans persuaded her to add songs. As quoted by Streisand biographer James Spada\, Marilyn Bergman explained\, ‘We felt it was a wonderful story for a musical\, because it is [about] a character with a secret.  Throughout the picture\, after her father dies\, there is nobody to whom she can talk\, to whom she can reveal her essential self.  And this rich inner life becomes the [song] score.’ \n“Because they felt the music should be lushly romantic and rooted in the European tradition\, the Bergmans considered Michel Legrand the perfect composer to collaborate on the Yentl score.  ‘The kind of music Michel writes is timeless.  It could be the 18th\, 19th or 20th century\,’ said Alan.  Added Marilyn: ‘The challenge was to make the music exotic and colorful\, but not so special that it doesn’t have universality.’  In developing the songs\, the trio joined Streisand for lengthy sessions in the music room of the Bergmans’ Beverly Hills home.  ‘Our housekeeper would bring us food trays and we’d eat up there\,’ recalled Alan.  ‘Sometimes we’d go late into the night.  It was like there was no outside world; the greatest thing about working on the movie was\, where else in the world could you call your director and say\, “Come over and sing this song for us?” \n“The collaboration was so fruitful that Yentl won an Oscar for Best Song Score. The Bergmans and Legrand also were nominated twice in the “Best Song” category\, for “Papa\, Can You Hear Me?” and “The Way He Makes Me Feel.” (The winner in that category was the title tune from Flashdance.) \nYentl\, released through MGM-UA\, won only one other nomination\, that of Best Supporting Actress for Amy Irving.  Noticeably absent in every category for which she was eligible\, Streisand did not attend the awards ceremony;  Yentl‘s nominated songs were performed by Donna Summer and Jennifer Holliday.  ‘In Hollywood\, a woman can be an actress\, a singer\, a dancer\,’ Streisand said later. ‘But don’t let her be too much more!’” \nby Roger Fristoe for TCM URL:https://ogunquitperformingarts.org/event/classic-film-yentl/ LOCATION:S. Judson Dunaway Center\, 23 School Street\, Ogunquit\, ME\, 03907\, United States CATEGORIES:Classic Film Series ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://ogunquitperformingarts.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/190505_Yentl.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20190407T140000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20190407T140000 DTSTAMP:20260526T164959 CREATED:20181212T004912Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240219T150841Z UID:10000027-1554645600-1554645600@ogunquitperformingarts.org SUMMARY:Classic Film: Breaker Morant DESCRIPTION:Breaker Morant (1980) \nBased on a true story from the Boer War in South Africa (1899-1902)\, Breaker Morant (1979) was an unexpected hit that helped usher in the spate of commercially successful and critically acclaimed Australian films that took the U.S. and the world by storm in the early 1980s. Made for only $800\,000\, this drama about the extraordinary and tragic circumstances faced by men at war struck a chord with audiences\, especially in an America that had recently come out of the Viet Nam war. The film racked up several Australian Film Institute Awards\, as well as many nominations in other countries\, opening up a wealth of opportunities for director Bruce Beresford. He became one of the hot new directors from Down Under and went on to direct such hit films in the U.S. as Tender Mercies (1983)\, which netted Beresford the Golden Palm at Cannes\, an Oscar and the Golden Globe for Best Actor (Robert Duvall)\, and Driving Miss Daisy (1989)\, an Academy Award winner for Best Picture\, Best Actress Jessica Tandy and Best Adapted Screenplay (by Alfred Uhry). \nBreaker Morant chronicles an incident in 1901 when three Australian soldiers fighting on the side of the British in South Africa were court-martialed for executing enemy prisoners. Acting under orders from British high command during a brutal guerrilla war (the first of its similarities to Viet Nam)\, Harry “Breaker” Morant and his fellow soldiers in the Australian Bushveldt Carbineers exact revenge for the murder and mutilation of one of their officers by the Boers\, South African farmers of Dutch descent revolting against the British in the century’s first colonial war. Several Boer prisoners and a German missionary the trio believe to be a spy are killed. Because the British are aware Germany is looking for an excuse to enter the war on the side of the Boers (to position themselves favorably for access to South Africa’s gold and diamond riches)\, the command orders the three Australians to be brought to trial as scapegoats\, denying the deaths were ever part of an official but covert military policy. \nBreaker Morant is unflinchingly a polemical film\, skillfully manipulating audiences into sympathy with its protagonists\, who are clearly guilty of the act for which they are condemned. In this respect\, it has been compared to Stanley Kubrick’s brilliant anti-war film Paths of Glory (1957) and was seen by many reviewers of the time as a parallel to the story of Lt. Calley and the 1968 My Lai massacre in Vietnam. Early drafts of the screenplay depicted the Australians as innocent of the executions. Beresford rewrote the story to place the focus not on their guilt or innocence but on the far more compelling theme of the extreme acts soldiers are driven to commit and the double-dealing politics of the military elite…. \nThe story is aided in no small part by the honest and affecting performances of its leads. British actor Edward Woodward\, who later appeared in the American TV series The Equalizer (1985)\, plays Morant as a flawed but essentially warm and decent man\, in contrast to his pompous\, hypocritical superiors. Acting honors are shared by two major Australian stars: Bryan Brown\, who went on to great success in America in the TV mini-series The Thorn Birds (1983) and the thriller F/X (1986)\, and Jack Thompson\, who played a Japanese POW in Nagisa Oshima’s Merry Christmas\, Mr. Lawrence (1983) and the sympathetic father in the gay-themed The Sum of Us (1994). As the harried and increasingly emotionally involved defense attorney\, Thompson won the Australian Film Institute Award for Best Actor and the Cannes Film Festival Award for Best Supporting Actor. \nby Rob Nixon for TCM \n  URL:https://ogunquitperformingarts.org/event/classic-film-breaker-morant/ LOCATION:S. Judson Dunaway Center\, 23 School Street\, Ogunquit\, ME\, 03907\, United States CATEGORIES:Classic Film Series ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://ogunquitperformingarts.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/190407_BreakerMorant.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20190309T183000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20190309T183000 DTSTAMP:20260526T164959 CREATED:20181212T002959Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240219T150841Z UID:10000026-1552156200-1552156200@ogunquitperformingarts.org SUMMARY:Stillson School of Irish Dance DESCRIPTION:Irish Stepdancing continues to be a wildly popular art form for performers and audiences alike.  Ogunquit Performing Arts celebrates this unique style of dance at this most appropriate time of year.   The award-winning Stillson dancers\, returning to Ogunquit by popular demand\, will perform a brilliant array of jigs and reels\, dressed in a variety of dazzling\,  hand-made costumes. \n \nThe performance will consist of both the fluid soft shoe style as well as the rhythmic hard shoe popularized by shows such as Riverdance and Lord of the Dance. \nAt the end of the performance\,  the dancers will invite children and the young at heart  to join them onstage to learn or try out some steps.  A reception with refreshments will conclude the evening. \nThe Stillson School of Irish Dance is under the direction of the celebrated dancer/teacher Carlene Moran Stillson ADCRG/TCRG.  She is accredited by Ad Coimisium in Dublin\, Ireland and a member of IDTANA (Irish Dancing Teacher’s Association of North America).  Carlene has a long tradition of dancing having started at age 4.  She has competed in the New England Regional\, North American\, and World Championships. \nIn existence for more than 20 years\, the Stillson School is the only certified school of Irish dancing in the state of Maine and its dancers compete all over New England and place in the New England Regional Irish Dancing Championships annually\, and in competitions around the world. \n \nIn addition to the dance performance\, Carlene Stillson will tell about the history of the dance and explain the reasons for the design of the many different costumes worn by the dancers.  Traditional Irish dress is represented in the school dress which features embroidery designs taken from the Book of Kells. \nThe Stillson School of Irish Dance also has an active show team which has performed throughout New England as well as on the Elipse lawn of the White House. They have been featured dancers accompanying such renowned Celtic performers as Solas\, Cherish the Ladies\, Trinity Dance Company\, Liz Carroll\, Billy McComiskey and Mick Moloney\, and Eileen Ivers. URL:https://ogunquitperformingarts.org/event/stillson-school-of-irish-dance-3/ LOCATION:S. Judson Dunaway Center\, 23 School Street\, Ogunquit\, ME\, 03907\, United States CATEGORIES:Live Performance ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://ogunquitperformingarts.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/190309_LP_Stillson.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20190303T140000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20190303T140000 DTSTAMP:20260526T164959 CREATED:20181109T233457Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240219T150842Z UID:10000025-1551621600-1551621600@ogunquitperformingarts.org SUMMARY:Classic Film: Cape Fear DESCRIPTION:Cape Fear (1962) \n \n“In the annals of screen psychopaths\, there are few who can top Robert Mitchum’s portrayal of Max Cady in the 1962 version of Cape Fear.  A convicted sex offender who is released from prison after serving a six year sentence\, Cady is a walking time bomb\, biding his time until he can take revenge on the prosecutor who put him away.  Everything about him exudes menace\, from his hooded eyes and insouciant sexual swagger to his smirking\, undisguised contempt for everyone he meets.  Mitchum was born to play this role and he applies the same relentless intensity to the part that he brought to his portrayal of Harry Powell\, the homicidal preacher from The Night of the Hunter (1955). \n \n“Gregory Peck actually deserves the credit for casting Mitchum as Max Cady and taking the more low-key role of attorney Sam Bowden.  After buying the rights to the John D. MacDonald novel\, The Executioners\, Peck reassembled several previous collaborators who had served him well in the past\, namely J. Lee Thompson\, who had just helmed the enormously successful war adventure\, The Guns of Navarone (1961)\, producer Sy Bartlett and screenwriter James Webb.  Initially\, Rod Steiger and Telly Savalas were considered for the part of Cady but once Mitchum became a possibility\, Peck pushed for his commitment.  At first Mitchum didn’t want to do the film but finally relented after Peck and Thompson delivered a case of bourbon to his home. His reply\, ‘Ok\, I’ve drunk your bourbon… I’ll do it.'”   Jeff Stafford for TCM \nCape Fear also stars Polly Bergen\, Lori Martin\, Martin Balsam\, Barrie Chase\, and Telly Savalas. \n \nThompson had always envisioned the film in black and white prior to production. As an Alfred Hitchcock fan\, he wanted to have Hitchcockian elements in the film\, such as unusual lighting angles\, an eerie musical score\, closeups\, and subtle hints\, rather than graphic depictions of the violence Cady has in mind for the family. \nThis scene where Mitchum attacks Polly Bergen’s character on the houseboat was alleged to be somewhat improvised.  Before the scene was filmed\, Thompson suddenly told a crew member: “Bring me a dish of eggs!”  Mitchum’s rubbing the eggs on Bergen was not scripted and Bergen’s reactions were presumably real.  While filming the scene\, Mitchum cut open his hand\, leading Bergen to recall: “his hand was covered in blood\, my back was covered in blood. We just kept going\, caught up in the scene. They came over and physically stopped us.” \n \nThe Production Code Administration still wielded power in the film industry in the early sixties and Cape Fear was certainly a cause for concern for them. After reviewing the film\, suggestions were made to remove several shots and references.   British censors demanded 161 cuts! Cape Fear was finally released there shorn of six minutes of footage. \nBecause of the film’s disturbing nature\, critical reviews were mixed.  Yet\, the film’s claustrophobic sense of impending terror and Mitchum’s mesmerizing performance are hard to dismiss lightly\, and the film is now recognized as a psy chological thriller masterpiece\, eclipsing even the 1991 remake by Martin Scorsese. URL:https://ogunquitperformingarts.org/event/classic-film-cape-fear/ LOCATION:S. Judson Dunaway Center\, 23 School Street\, Ogunquit\, ME\, 03907\, United States CATEGORIES:Classic Film Series ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://ogunquitperformingarts.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/190303_CapeFear.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20190203T140000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20190203T140000 DTSTAMP:20260526T164959 CREATED:20181109T231446Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240219T150842Z UID:10000024-1549202400-1549202400@ogunquitperformingarts.org SUMMARY:Classic Film: Guys and Dolls DESCRIPTION:Based on the short stories of Damon Runyan\, and with music and lyrics by the legendary Frank Loesser\, the original production of Guys and Dolls opened on Broadway November 24\, 1950\, and ran for 1200 performances.  The film version\, starring Marlon Brando\, Jean Simmons\, Frank Sinatra and Vivian Blaine (recreating her stage role as Adelaide)\, had the highest box office gross of 1955.  The film also features Stubby Kaye\, B.S. Pully\, Johnny Silver\, and Sheldon Leonard. \nGuys and Dolls is a fable about gambling men\, and the women who try to tame them.  Set in the colorful world of New York’s Times Square in the mid-20th century\, the flashy and witty Guys and Dolls is populated with gangsters and gamblers\, thugs and mugs\, missionary dolls and scantily clad showgirls\, and one of the great musical scores in the history of American theatre. \nIt all begins with a bet.  In a desperate effort to finance a location for “The Oldest Established Permanent Floating Crap Game in New York” and under pressure from its gangster participants\,  Nathan Detroit (Sinatra) bets high-rolling gambler Sky Masterson (Brando) that Sky cannot persuade Save-A-Soul Mission Sergeant Sarah Brown (Simmons) to accompany him on a trip to Cuba.  While the worldly Sky works his charms on a wary Sarah\, Nathan is doing his best to stay outside the matrimonial clutches of his long-suffering fiancée\, showgirl Miss Adelaide (Blaine). \n \nSongs include well-known Loesser favorites\, including such dynamic ensembles as “Luck Be a Lady”\, “Sit Down\, You’re Rockin’ the Boat”\, “Fugue for Tinhorns” – (I’ve Got the Horse Right Here!)\, and the title song.   Loesser added two lovely ballads written especially for the film\, “Adelaide” and “Woman In Love.”  Under the direction of Joseph L. Mankiewicz\, with fabulous dance numbers choreographed by Michael Kidd\, and new music coming from the composer\, the musical was given the usual lavish attention by MGM Studios. \nBorn in 1910 in New York\, composer Frank Loesser never studied music formally\, although he certainly came under the influence of his father\, a distinguished German-born teacher of classical piano\, and of his older brother Arthur\, who was a renowned concert pianist and musicologist. \nIn a few short years\, Loesser created five Broadway musicals whose impact and popularity continue to this day.  Over the years the many revivals of Guys and Dolls\, The Most Happy Fella\, How To Succeed in Business Without Really Trying\, Greenwillow\, and Where’s Charley?\,  have enjoyed as great success\,  and have won multiple awards equalling\, and sometimes exceeding\, the original productions. \n \nIn the late 1940’s\, Loesser also formed his own music publishing company\, Frank Music Corporation\, with the primary purpose of discovering and developing new and young popular composers and lyricists.  The company became a major force in music publishing\, licensing of secondary theatrical rights\, and production of printed music editions. \nIn the midst of all his stage work and publishing projects\, Loesser was no stranger to Hollywood and composed\, wrote\, or co-wrote for some fifty films.  He created one of his best loved scores for the film\, Hans Christian Anderson\, which featured such songs as “Wonderful Copenhagen”\,  “Anywhere I Wander”\, “The Inch Worm”\, and “Thumbelina”\, which was nominated for an Academy Award. \nFrom the Pulitzer Prize to the American Theatre Wing’s Tony Award to Hollywood’s highest honor\, Frank Loesser won them all. URL:https://ogunquitperformingarts.org/event/classic-film-guys-and-dolls/ LOCATION:S. Judson Dunaway Center\, 23 School Street\, Ogunquit\, ME\, 03907\, United States CATEGORIES:Classic Film Series ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://ogunquitperformingarts.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/180203_GuysDolls.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20190106T140000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20190106T140000 DTSTAMP:20260526T164959 CREATED:20181027T173228Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240219T150843Z UID:10000023-1546783200-1546783200@ogunquitperformingarts.org SUMMARY:Classic Film: One\, Two\, Three DESCRIPTION:Pamela Tiffin watching as Horst Buchholz and James Cagney are about to get into a food fight in a scene from the film ‘One\, Two\, Three’\, 1961. (Photo by United Artists/Getty Images) \nOne\, Two\, Three is a 1961 brilliant American comedy film directed by Billy Wilder\,  and written by Wilder and I. A. Diamond.   The comedy stars James Cagney\, Arlene Francis\, Horst Buchholz\, Pamela Tiffin and Lilo Pulver.    It was filmed in West Berlin and Munich in the summer of 1961. \nThe film is primarily set in West Berlin during the Cold War\, but before the construction of the Berlin Wall. It  is known for its extraordinary fast pace\, taking satiric aim at communism\, capitalism\, post-war Germany\, corporate America\, previous Cagney films\, alligator shoes\, and a host of other targets. \n  \nBilly Wilder wrote and/or directed a wide variety of pictures during his renowned career.   But he’s probably best known for the stunning comedies he created with screenwriter I. A. Diamond.  One\, Two\, Three is a prime example\, with a mile-a-minute script pitting Coca-Cola against Communism. \nJames Cagney’s performance is a tour de force\, delivering pages of script at dizzying speed.  In Cameron Crowe’s book\, Conversations with Wilder (Alfred A. Knopf)\, the director commented on Cagney’s delivery\, saying “We knew that we were going to have a comedy\, we [were] not going to be waiting for the laughs. But we had to go with Cagney\, because Cagney was the whole picture. He really had the rhythm\, and that was very good…” \nIn the film\, Cagney plays C.R. MacNamara\, Coca-Cola’s ambitious head of bottling in West Germany\, who is determined to cut a deal to distribute Coke to the Russian market while at the same time desperately trying to prevent the boss’s visiting flighty daughter (Tiffin) from marrying a card-carrying communist hippie (Buchholz)\, while under the disapproving eye of his own neglected wife (Francis). \nThen in his early sixties\, Cagney was not initially certain he should take on the part.  On reading the script\, he understood that the bulk of the film rested on his abilities and stamina.  And indeed\, Wilder’s insistence on breakneck\, rat-a-tat-tat timing to each and every scene soon began to wear on Cagney\, – especially on those occasions when the actor received pages of script only the night before\, and then was expected to spit out a steady stream of complex dialogue while handling equally complicated stage direction.  Cagney was genuinely irked that Wilder demanded word-for-word perfection and wouldn’t accept even the slightest bit of paraphrasing. \nHe was even more aggravated with Buchholz\, the only actor whom Cagney\, a consummate gentleman\, ever openly disliked.   Said Cagney\, “…this Horst Buchholz character I truly loathed. Had he kept on with his little scene-stealing didoes\, I would have been forced to knock him on his ass\, which I would have very much enjoyed doing.” \nDespite everything\, Cagney achieved a triumphant performance and enjoyed a great success with this film.  However\, One\, Two\, Three also would be his last film appearance until Ragtime  in 1981\, 20 years later. \nThe film won kudos from the staff at Variety. They wrote\, “Billy Wilder’s One\, Two\, Three is a fast-paced\, high-pitched\, hard-hitting\, lighthearted farce crammed with topical gags and spiced with satirical overtones. Story is so furiously quick-witted that some of its wit gets snarled and smothered in overlap. But total experience packs a considerable wallop.” \nDespite great reviews\, and awards from the Academy\, Golden Globes\, and Writers Guild of America\, One\, Two\, Three did not do well at either the U.S. or German box office. The lighthearted East-West Berlin story felt much more sinister at the release\, since the Berlin Wall had been built after filming began.  (The building of the Berlin Wall began during the night of August 13\, 1961\, – right through the film set at the Brandenburg Gate.   The film team\, discovering the change in the morning\, had to move the production to Munich.) \nOne\, Two\, Three was also banned in Finland from 1962 to 1986 on “political” grounds — it was feared that the film would harm relations between Finland and the Soviet Union.  United Pictures Finland tried to get the film released theatrically in 1962\, 1966 and 1969 but it was only in 1986 that the Finnish Board of Film Classification allowed the film to be distributed. \nIn a complete reversal of fortune\, the film was also received enthusiastically in Germany upon its 1985 re-release in movie theaters.   One\, Two\, Three was given a grand re-premier at a large outdoor showing in Berlin which was broadcast simultaneously over television. The film went on to spend a year in the Berlin theaters as it was rediscovered by West Berlin citizens. URL:https://ogunquitperformingarts.org/event/classic-film-one-two-three/ LOCATION:S. Judson Dunaway Center\, 23 School Street\, Ogunquit\, ME\, 03907\, United States CATEGORIES:Classic Film Series ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://ogunquitperformingarts.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/180106_CFS_OneTwoThree.png END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR