Voltaic Vaudeville

Saturday, May 5 , 3 p.m. & 8 p.m.

Tickets: Adult $20 - Student/senior $15 - Child $10

The Regent Theatre opened its doors in 1916 as one of Greater Boston’s premier vaudeville houses.  The venue has undergone many permutations since then and has served the community for 91 years.  In recent years, the Regent Theatre family has been proud to bring back live performances to this historical space. 

MAY 5th

Brian Carpenter's Vaudeville Orchestra

Brian Carpenter's Vaudeville Orchestra is a 10-piece jazz
orchestra that formed in Spring 2005 to record Carpenter's
original film score for acclaimed animator Lorelei Pepi's cartoon
musical Happy & Gay. In live shows the orchestra performs hot-
house jazz in the spirit of vaudeville acts of 1920s Chicago and
Harlem, Tin Pan Alley parlour songs, original bawdy-house
burlesque grinds, and sideshow pieces for on-stage performers.
They have shared the stage with several burlesque and sideshow
performers including Miss Dirty Martini, Tyler Fyre, Todd
Robbins, Molly Crabapple, and The Daredevil Chicken Club.
http://www.myspace.com/beatcircusvaudevilleorchestra

Words From The Press

"Imagine Squirrel Nut Zippers backing up Cirque du Soleil in a
late- period Fellini film and you're getting close." -- Orlando
Weekly

"Brian Carpenter's Vaudeville Orchestra combines music,
burlesque, comedy, acrobatics, and carny sleaze -- but in a good
way." -- Time Out New York

Brian Carpenter's Vaudeville Orchestra
Brian Carpenter's Vaudeville Orchestra
Brian Carpenter - Trumpet, Slide Trumpet, Bullhorn
Michael Winograd - Clarinet
Charlie Kohlhase - Tenor, Baritone Saxophones
Petr Cancura - Alto, Tenor Saxophones, Clarinet
Curtis Hasselbring - Trombone
Kaethe Hostetter - Violin
Andrew Stern - Banjo
Ron Caswell - Tuba
Django Carranza - Trap Kit

Special pre- show shenanigans by The Grindhouse Marionettes

UNCLE SHOE (3pm and 8pm)
www.mattsamolis.com
“Uncle Shoe has a manner of tuneful delivery that appeals to the delight of the most discerning audience.  His songs are at once boastful, humorous, opinionated and romantic. It is difficult to not find oneself immediately taken up and carried away on the infectious melodies that issue forth from his masterful banjo playing, hollers, & captivating voice."

BEN MATCHSTICK (3pm and 8pm)
Ben t. Matchstick has worked many years with Bread and Puppet in Glover Vermont and has toured nationally and internationally with toy theater companies, puppet operas, and street shows. Recently he has worked as the puppet director with Frank Galati and composer Michael Smith on the 2006 Victory Gardens Theater production of "The Snow Queen" in Chicago. He is also the director of "Hadestown" written by folk musician Anais Mitchell. Matchstick is the founder and tenured custodian of the Cardboard Teck Instantute in Montpelier, Vermont.

BONY LIL (3pm and 8pm)
www.bonylil.com
Bony Lil frequents local venues as a stagehand.  On rare occasions she's afforded chances to show a few other skills around town. Most recently Zea Barker and Michael Pope (the designer/director team who've brought you music videos for the Dresden Dolls, Fluttr Effect and Ben Folds) afforded her the opportunity to strut her stuff in a duet of short films called Bony Lil's Creation & Distraction, which illustrate opposite ends of the creative process through a rich monochromatic blending of live-action and hand-drawn and stop-motion animation.

Valerie Thompson: Cello celebrity of the Boston- based band Fluttr Effect

JASON ESCAPE (3pm and 8pm)
www.jasonescape.com
Jason Escape knows how to interact and have fun with a
crowd, all while tied and bound, desperately trying to
escape.

MISS ADVENTURE (8pm)
http://www.missadventureshow.biz

KARIN WEBB (3pm and 8pm)
UnAmerika's Sweetheart (KARIN WEBB): Who knows which character will come visit tonight? From old ladies to perverse men, high femme to spaz-tastik, this skin-changing, sometimes clothes-shedding act will keep you rivited!

THE LEGACY DANCERS (3pm and 8pm)
www.thedanceinn.com/htmls/legacy/legacy.html
A professional dance company made up of energetic and enthusiastic young dancers Ryan Casey, Nicole Chaput, and Kelly Rapp.

Surfing in Nebraska (3pm)
This old -fashioned comedy duo has this to say about their act, “They say that vaudeville is a kind of lunch- counter art, but art is so vague and lunch is so real.”

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