Club Café presents the Boston premiere of THE NEW PROVINCETOWN FOLLIES on Saturday, February 2 at 5pm and 8pm.
This new production is created by lyricist Jay Baer and features nearly a dozen fabulous singers with a special appearance by beloved chanteuse, Phoebe Otis. John Thomas is the music director and pianist. Vocal and music arrangements are by Courtney Furno. The concert was first presented in the Great Music on Sundays @5 concert series at the Unitarian Universalist Meeting House of Provincetown on September 30, 2018.
Jay Baer, who wrote musical parodies in high school, college and medical school, has created a “Forbidden Provincetown” style musical revue for the new century. The tunes are familiar, the lyrics delightfully fresh, funny and full of Provincetown’s notable quirks, while still being a musical love letter to a unique community. Several songs premiered at the sold-out February, 2018 Boston Gay Men’s Chorus production There’s No Place Like Home: A Wicked Good Cabaret. The New Provincetown Follies is filled with Baer’s wonderfully witty observations about a special place at land’s end.
Baer says: “I started writing musical parodies in high school. My junior class English teacher was somewhat befuddled by my musical version of ‘The Sun Also Rises.’ I have been away from musical theatre since my medical school senior class play in 1981. It made sense at this time of my life to start writing parodies again. While I was pondering what to write about, my husband Lee suggested that that I write about Provincetown. We love it so much and there is plenty to laud and to lampoon! I soon got on a roll turning out songs. It was fun cracking myself up! I tried to be careful to write songs that are not only a series of ‘insider’ jokes, but ones that tell stories for all. Most of these stories are meant to be funny, but there are exceptions. I hope they leave the audience laughing at, thinking about and loving Provincetown as much as I do.”
Moonshine Room at Club Café – 209 Columbus Avenue, Boston MA (617)-536-0966.
February 2 @ 5pm and 8pm – Click here for tickets, or at the door (cash only) – PRICES: 5pm: $25; 8pm: $30.
