May 4, 2 pm Matinee at Theater III in West Acton. It is reserved seating for this production, so if we want to sit together as a group, I purchased seat I-14. (There will be tables as well but it was a limited number of seats still available for the tables). Lucky Stiff: Tony Award-winning writing team Ahrens and Flaherty’s first produced show, Lucky Stiff is an offbeat, hilarious murder mystery farce, complete with mistaken identities, six million bucks in diamonds, and a corpse in a wheelchair.  Based on the novel “The Man Who Broke the Bank at Monte Carlo,” the story revolves around an unassuming English shoe salesman who is forced to take the embalmed body of his recently murdered uncle on a vacation to Monte Carlo.  Should he succeed in passing his uncle off as alive, Harry Witherspoon stands to inherit $6,000,000.  If not, the money goes to the Universal Dog Home of Brooklyn… or else his uncle’s gun-toting ex!

Theatre III 250 Central Street, West Acton, MA 01720 
For help contact: 978-263-9070
tickets@theatre3.org.

In June two songwriting giants take the stage together in Groton’s Beautiful Concert Hall!

The June show will be to see Shawn Colvin (Sunny Came Home) and Rodney Crowell at Groton Hill Music Center on June 13 7:30 pm. I purchased a seat in the upper balcony (where I could get a favored end seat) Row GG Seat 20, if you would like to join me. There is literally, no bad seating in this gorgeous concert hall so feel free to purchase seats anywhere and we’ll arrange to gather before the show. 

Shawn Colvin stopped the industry in its tracks with her arresting 1989 debut, Steady On. The following spring, Colvin took home the GRAMMY Award for Best Contemporary Folk Album, establishing herself as a mainstay in the singer-songwriter genre. In the ensuing 30 years, Colvin has won three GRAMMY Awards, released thirteen superlative albums, written a critically acclaimed memoir, maintained a non-stop national and international touring schedule, appeared on countless television and radio programs, had her songs featured in major motion pictures and created a remarkable canon of work.  Recent honors include the 2016 Lifetime Achievement Trailblazer Award by the Americana Music Association and an induction into the 2019 Austin City Limits Hall of Fame, alongside legendary artists Lyle Lovett and Buddy Guy.

Rodney Crowell is the songwriter’s songwriter and an icon among giants. Native Texan, Crowell is a multi-Grammy Award-winning troubadour with fifteen number-one hits. With more than 40 years of American roots music under his belt, Crowell has also been cited as the architect of Americana music. Over the course of his career, Crowell has gracefully blended his own mainstream success as an artist with a prolific catalog of songs cut by the likes of Emmylou Harris, Johnny Cash, Waylon Jennings, Keith Urban, The Grateful Dead, Etta James and more. 

St Patrick’s Day, Sunday, March 9 at 2 pm at the Reagle Music Center in Waltham celebrating St . Patrick’s Day by attending The Magic of Ireland. 

We can each purchase our own tickets. The group has started to get seats in the Center section with a whole row of available seats if you would like to sit together, in or near Row U seat 114.

Dinner afterwards is optional and the location has yet to be determined.  As the date nears, we’ll coordinate some carpooling as well. Hope to see lots of folks join us.

Sunday, February 9th, 2025, 2 P.M. Radium Girls at Theatre III in West Acton. 

In 1926, radium was a miracle cure, Madame Curie an international celebrity, and luminous watches the latest rage—until the girls who painted them began to fall ill with a mysterious disease.  Inspired by a true story, Radium Girls traces the efforts of Grace Fryer, a dial painter, as she fights for her day in court.