Marion Art Center

Theatre

 
 

 

Performing Arts

Theatre events include concerts and lectures, as well as plays and musicals.  The auditorium has an up-to-date, fully equipped lighting and sound system, and accommodates approximately seventy people at each performance.  Seating is often cabaret style, with audience enjoying refreshments at reserved tables.  At least four adult productions and three children's shows are mounted each year, and a musical is presented in the summer.  Actors, singers, dancers, and musicians from the greater southeastern New England area perform.   Directors are paid a fee.  There are open auditions during the year.

There BACK ! The Dixie Diehards Jazz Band Returns

On September 25th, the Dixie Diehards Dixieland Jazz Band will return to the Marion Art Center for their 4th appearance.  Since 2006, the Dixie Diehards have delighted fans at theatre concerts, parties, dances, music-in-the-park appearances, and cultural events throughout Southeastern New England.

Drawn together from all walks of life, the Dixie Diehards members include teachers, professional musicians, retired professor, medical doctor and an investigative reporter to name a few.  What unites us is an abiding love for the Dixieland and traditional New Orleans jazz music, a passion for entertaining, and our skill in relating the music of such artists as Fats Waller, Louis Armstrong, Hoagy Carmichael and King Oliver.

From tunes like "Basin Street Blues, " Tiger Rag" and "Bourbon Street Parade" to " Cabaret" and the "Saints", the Dixie Diehards take their audiences on a brassy and nostalgic trip from the Jazz Age up through the show tunes that formed an immortal part of our musical heritage.

 

While knowledgeable jazz fans will thrill to the Diehards' spirited renditions of their favorites, the band's family friendly appearances are an inspired way to introduce young minds to the roots and essence of jazz-America's sole indigenous musical art form.

There will be one performance Saturday September 25th at 7:30 PM .  The Marion Art Center theatre will be set up " cabaret " style with tables for up to six.  Reservations are encouraged since seating is limited and  past appearances have been sold out. Call 508-748-1266 for reservations.  Tables are reserved for a minimum party of four.

Tickets are $10 for members - $12.50 General Admission

 

Next Theatre production:

Marion Art Center Players Present:

Blithe Spirit

An Improbable Farce by Noel Coward

November 5,6,12, 13 & Sunday November 7th @ 2:00 PM

 


 

 

   



Reservations Recommended: 

508-748-1266

Marion Art Center  80 Pleasant Street, Marion, MA  02738