November at the Colonial Theatre
Tommy Tune to Arlo Guthrie
By: Colonial - Oct 15, 2010
The Spencers: Theatre of Illusion
Sponsored by Greylock Federal Credit Union
Saturday 11/6/10 8pm
All Tickets: $35
Named 2009 International Magicians of the Year, joining the ranks of Henning, Copperfield, Penn & Teller and Criss Angel. For The Spencers, magic is no longer merely about baffling the audience by doing something seemingly impossible. Magic these days is about drama, spectacle, interaction, danger and personality. People have been known to levitate, walk through walls, vanish and reappear. In one magical experiment, the entire audience is asked to get involved in a stunning, interactive mind reading experience! Theatre of Illusion is one of the largest touring illusion productions on the road
Tommy Tune in Steps In Time: A Broadway Biography In Song And Dance
Featuring The Manhattan Rhythm Kings
Friday 11/12/10 8pm
A: $65 B: $45
Nine-time Tony Award-winner Tommy Tune teams with longtime collaborators The Manhattan Rhythm Kings for a personal look back at his incredible career, featuring timeless standards, elegant choreography, and Tommy’s own unique charm and warm-hearted humor. Don’t miss this rare chance to view the personal side of this quintessential song-and-dance man
Kate Clinton The Lady HAHA Tour with Special Guest Roy Zimmerman
Saturday 11/13/10 8pm
All Tickets: $35
Kate Clinton is a faith-based, tax-paying, America-loving political humorist and family entertainer. With a career spanning over 25 years, Kate Clinton has worked through economic booms and busts, Disneyfication and Walmartization, gay movements and gay markets, lesbian chic and queer eyes, and ten presidential inaugurals. She still believes that humor gets us through peacetime, wartime and scoundrel time.
Roy Zimmerman is an intensely clever singer-songwriter often compared to Tom Lehrer.
Ani DiFranco with Special Guest Melissa Ferrick
Sponsored by Laurin Publishing
Tuesday 11/16/10 7:30pm
A: $55 B: $35
Ani DiFranco is a songwriter, vocalist and guitarist perpetually on the move. From the raw folk-punk of her early albums through the jazz-funk grooves she created during her years touring with a five-piece band, to the twists and turns of her current work, DiFranco’s restless creativity continually leads her and her listeners into ever more exciting territory.
http://www.righteousbabe.com/ani/index.asp
http://www.melissaferrick.com/
Arlo Guthrie with The Burns Sisters: Journey On
Sponsored by Berkshire Bank & Nelson E. Furlano, CPA
Saturday 11/20/10 8pm
A: $55 B: $25
For over four decades, Arlo Guthrie has toured the world winning a broad and dedicated following. In addition to being an accomplished musician, Guthrie is a natural-born storyteller whose hilarious tales and timeless anecdotes are woven seamlessly into his performances.
The Burns Sisters harmonize to produce powerful folk-country-rock songs. When Marie, Jeannie and Annie Burns sing together, their music follows an inner path only they can know—but everyone can feel.
Kathy Mattea: Songs and the Season
Saturday 11/27/10 8pm
A: $55 B: $35
Kathy Mattea presents an all-new holiday program following up her Grammy Award-winning and Emmy-nominated holiday program Good News. Ranging widely across musical boundaries of country, folk and gospel, her show’s spiritual message is a thoughtful blend of old favorites and new songs.
The Sound of Christmas: with Elisabeth von Trapp & The Empire Brass
Tuesday 11/30/10 7:30pm
A: $35 B: $25
For Elisabeth von Trapp, the sounds of music are part of her earliest memories. Born and raised in Vermont , Elisabeth is the granddaughter of the legendary Maria and Baron von Trapp, whose story inspired The Sound of Music. Singing professionally since childhood, Elisabeth has enthralled audiences from European cathedrals to Washington D.C. ’s Kennedy Center .
The Empire Brass, led by Berkshires’ own Rolf Smedvig, dazzles audiences worldwide with their virtuosity and charisma. Their entertaining holiday programs combine the classic and the new covering holiday standards; classical transcriptions, traditional carols and original Empire Brass arrangements.
http://www.elisabethvontrapp.com/