Arsenal performanceRevels Repertory Company in partnership with arsenalARTS presents

There’s a Meeting Here Tonight!

The story of New England's Hutchinson Family Singers

Tickets on sale at the door

Sunday, March 7, 2010 @ 4 pm
Arsenal Center for the Arts, 321 Arsenal Street, Watertown, MA 02472

  

Spirituals and Songs of Emancipation, Women’s Suffrage and the Civil War

with

Milton Wright as Frederick Douglass
Walter Locke as P.T. Barnum
Len Solomon as The Phenomenon (one-man band/juggler)
and Jacqueline Schwab, pianist

 

"There's a Meeting Here Tonight!" is the story of the Hutchinson Family Singers, America's most celebrated - and controversial - family singing group during the 1840s through the time of the American Civil War.

In this performance filled with music and songs of the period, the Hutchinsons, who were active in the Temperance movement, Abolition and Women's Suffrage, hold a post-war reunion with family and friends including master showman P.T. Barnum and the great Abolitionist Frederick Douglass, both of whom, along with Barnum's latest find, "The Phenomenon", make a surprise but welcome appearance.  Great fun for the whole family!

Tickets: $20 adults / $12 children 11 and under
Groups of 10 + Call 617-972-8300 x 22 or email
acasso@revels.org

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This program is supported in part by a grant from the Watertown Cultural Council, a local agency which is supported by the Massachusetts Cultural Council, a state agency.

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