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Barrington Stage Company presents
Broadway’s LISA HOWARD, ALYSHA UMPHRESS and MICHAEL WINTHER in
CARMEL’S CANDY STORE The Sweet Songs of Carmel Dean

August 23-25 at MR. FINN’S CABARET
AT THE SYDELLE AND LEE BLATT PERFORMING ARTS CENTER

PITTSFIELD (August 2012) – Barrington Stage Company (BSC), the award-winning theatre in downtown Pittsfield, MA, under the leadership of Julianne Boyd, Artistic Director, and Tristan Wilson, Managing Director, is proud to present Carmel’s Candy Store: The Sweet Songs of Carmel Dean from August 23 – 25 at Mr. Finn’s Cabaret, located on the lower level of the Sydelle and Lee Blatt Performing Arts Center (formerly Stage 2), 36 Linden Street, Pittsfield.  Carmel’s Candy Store features BSC artists and Broadway regulars Carmel Dean (BSC’s The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee; Broadway: American Idiot), Lisa Howard (BSC and Broadway: The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee), Alysha Umphress (BSC’s Funked Up Fairy Tales; Broadway: American Idiot) and Michael Winther (BSC’s The Mysteries of Harris Burdick; Broadway: 33 Variations/Mamma Mia!).

Carmel’s Candy Store provides a tasty sampling of Dean’s work as a composer, with rousing, funny and emotionally evocative lyrics by William Finn, Maya Angelou, Edna St. Vincent Millay, Anna K. Jacobs, Mindi Dickstein and Sarah Underwood.

Mr. Finn’s Cabaret, named after the Tony Award-winning composer of Falsettos and The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee and Artistic Producer of BSC’s Musical Theatre Lab, kicked off this premiere season with singer/songwriters Joe Iconis and Nikos Tsakalakos and Broadway’s Quentin Earl Darrington.

Tickets to Mr. Finn’s Cabaret
Mr. Finn’s Cabaret is located on the lower level of the Sydelle and Lee Blatt Performing Arts Center (formerly Stage 2), 36 Linden Street, Pittsfield. Performance times are 9:30pm Thursday and Friday and 10:00pm on Saturday, or following the St. Germain Stage performance.  All tickets to Mr. Finn’s Cabaret series are $15 and general admission.  Beer, wine and soda are available.  To purchase tickets or for more information, call the Barrington Stage Box Office at 413-236-8888 or visit www.barringtonstageco.org. The Box Office at Mr. Finn’s Cabaret opens 30 minutes prior to each performance. Barrington Stage Company’s Musical Theatre Lab is sponsored in part by Elayne Bernstein and Sol Schwartz.

About Barrington Stage Company
Barrington Stage Company, a professional award-winning Equity regional theatre located in the heart of the Berkshires, in Pittsfield, MA, was co-founded in 1995 by Artistic Director Julianne Boyd. Barrington Stage’s mission is three-fold: to present top-notch, compelling work; to develop new plays and musicals; and to find fresh, bold ways to bringing new audiences into the theatre—especially young people. Barrington Stage garnered national attention in 2004 when it workshopped, and premiered William Finn and Rachel Sheinkin’s musical hit The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee, which later transferred to Broadway, where it won two Tony Awards and played more than 1,000 performances. In 2009/2010 Barrington Stage produced the world premiere of Mark St. Germain’s Freud’s Last Session, which later moved Off-Broadway and has played more than 750 performances. Barrington Stage was voted “Best Live Theatre” by The Berkshire Eagle readers in 2011 and 2012 and was named “Best Theatre Company” in Metroland’s Best of the Capital Region 2009-2012.

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