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Gay Ogunquit: Entertainment

What do you feel like doing tonight? Stars are shining at the Playhouse, movies are playing at the theatre, showtunes at the Front Porch Piano Bar, or dancing at the discos. Ogunquit also features gay comedy acts, live music, art exhibits, classical music at the Dunaway centre or just a simple stroll though town to see the sights!
Pete Best Band & British Yankees

Pete Best Band & British Yankees

Jonathan's Restaurant
May 15, 2008 8pm
The Beattle's Original Drummer plus one of Boston's Finest Bands, British Yankees. 2 Bands Live, 1 Night at Jonathan's Ogunquit. $20 Cover. Phone: 1-800-464-9934.
Forbidden Broadway

Forbidden Broadway

Ogunquit Playhouse
May 23-25, 208
This riotous parody of popular Broadway shows comes to the Playhouse stage for five performances only - Memorial Day weekend, May 23 through May 25! New York's longest running musical comedy spoofs show tunes, characters and plots as Broadway’s greatest musical legends meet Broadway's greatest satirist in this hilarious and entertaining tribute to some of the theatre's greatest stars and songwriters. Visit The Ogunquit Playhouse for more info.
Jonathan Edwards

Jonathan Edwards

Jonathan's Restaurant
June 13, 2008 8pm
Jonathan Edwards Ticket Price $30.00 includes dessert and coffee or 2 house beverages. Phone: 1-800-464-9934. See Jonathan Edwards' web site here.
Disney's High School Musical

Disney's High School Musical

Ogunquit Playhouse
June 14-15, July 5-6, August 2-3, Sept. 20-21
A new favorite with kids and adults alike, this musical proves that we're all in this together. Visit The Ogunquit Playhouse for more info.
Breaking Up Is Hard To Do

Breaking Up Is Hard To Do

Ogunquit Playhouse
June 25-July 12, 2008
The New England premier of the new rock n' roll musical featuring the music of legendary artist Neil Sedaka! With all the upbeat fun of Hairspray, we'll return to the 1960s and Esther's Paradise Resort in the Catskill Mountains. Join us as we relive the trials, tribulations and rewards of teenage life, love and and summer days gone by. With a score that includes the hit songs "Love Will Keep Us Together," "Stupid Cupid," "Laughter in the Rain," "Calendar Girl," "Happy Birthday Sweet Sixteen," and of course the number-one-smash-hit title song, "Breaking Up Is Hard To Do" - audiences will be dancing in the aisles! Visit The Ogunquit Playhouse for more info.
Bob Marley

Bob Marley

Jonathan's Restaurant
June 26 and August 21, 2008 8:00pm
Back for his 4th Performance – all near Sell outs! “Marley’s brand of high energy and off beat observation of everyday life things has captured the minds of fans of all ages including teenagers to grandparents in their 80’s. Making his first television appearance on Comedy Central, he is now one of the few comics to do the complete late night circuit including The Late Show with David Letterman, The Tonight Show with Jay Leno, Late Night with Conan O’Brien.” Ticket Price $30.00 includes dessert and coffee or 2 house beverages. Phone: 1-800-464-9934.
The Producers

The Producers

Ogunquit Playhouse
July 16-August 9, 2008
Don't miss the most Tony-Award Winning musical of all time, The Producers! It's Mel Brook’s hilarious story about producer Max Bialystock and his hapless accountant Leo Bloom, who try to oversell a Broadway flop only to incur complications when the show unexpectedly turns out to be a hit. The Ogunquit Playhouse is thrilled to be one of the first regional theatres in the country to recreate the Broadway production featuring Robin Wagner’s fantastic Tony-Award winning sets and William Ivey Long’s spectacular Tony award winning costumes in this one time only star studded production of The Producers! Visit The Ogunquit Playhouse for more info.
Cheryl Wheeler

Cheryl Wheeler

Jonathan's Restaurant
July 25, 2008 8pm
Back for 3rd year in a Row! “From her albums you can tell that she is a gifted songwriter with a beautiful voice. From other people's comments about her you can learn that she is a natural story teller with a fantastic sense of humor. But until you see her in person, you never really believe what you've been told about her. Ticket Price $37.50 includes dessert and coffee or 2 house beverages. Phone: 1-800-464-9934.
Ellis Paul

Ellis Paul

Jonathan's Restaurant
July 26, 2008 8pm
Ellis Paul is a critically acclaimed singer, songwriter, poet and troubadour originally hailing from a potato farming family in northern Maine. He is the recipient of thirteen Boston Music Awards, second only to multi platinum act Aerosmith. Since launching from Boston, Ellis Paul has built a vast catalog of music which weds striking poetic imagery and philosophical introspection with hook-laden melodies. Ticket Price $32.50 includes dessert and coffee or 2 house beverages. Phone: 1-800-464-9934.
Jimmy Keys

Jimmy Keys

Jonathan's Restaurant
August 2, 2008 8pm
“He’s a cross between Elton John (in that he sings and plays the piano) and Robin Williams (in that his comedy is off-the-wall). His show is packed with comedy, visual musical impressions and favorite Broadway songs, wrapped around some of the most exciting piano playing and audience participation that you will ever witness.” Ticket Price $37.50 includes dessert and coffee or 2 house beverages. Phone: 1-800-464-9934.
Lori McKenna

Lori McKenna

Jonathan's Restaurant
August 9, 2008 8pm
Lori McKenna is also an acclaimed singer-songwriter who was thrust into the limelight last year when superstar Faith Hill included three of McKenna?s songs on her Number One album Fireflies, including Hill?s poignant single ?Stealing Kisses.? Hill (herself a wife and mother of three) heard in McKenna?s work what a steadily growing audience has been hearing since her 1998 debut, Paper Wings & Halo: an intimate understanding and honest expression of the realities of domestic life. Ticket Price $30.00 includes dessert and coffee or 2 house beverages. Phone: 1-800-464-9934.
My Fair Lady

My Fair Lady

Ogunquit Playhouse
August 13-September 6, 2008
When stringent linguist, Professor Henry Higgins, bets a colleague he can turn flower vendor Eliza Doolittle from a guttersnipe into a duchess, the stage is set for romance and glitter. Touted by many as the perfect musical, this dazzling production features irresistible songs including “Wouldn’t It Be Loverly,” “I Could Have Danced All Night” and “On the Street Where You Live.” This all-new Playhouse production will feature a multitude of TV stars, fantastic sets and gorgeous eye-popping costumes. Bring the whole family to enjoy this timeless classic. Visit The Ogunquit Playhouse for more info.
Frank Santos - R Rated Hypnotist

Frank Santos - R Rated Hypnotist

Jonathan's Restaurant
August 16, 2008 9pm
New England's Premiere Hypnotist and innovative comedian has been Mesmerizing audiences for over 21 years. His spectacular display of mind bending antics can turn any skeptic into a FAN. His act is always fresh, racy, and like the swirls of a fingerprint, no two shows are the same. Ticket Price $30 includes dessert and coffee or 2 house beverages. Phone: 1-800-464-9934.
Les Miserables

Les Miserables

Ogunquit Playhouse
September 10-October 12, 2008
Winner of eight Tony® Awards, including Best Musical, Les Misérables, based on the novel by Victor Hugo, packs an emotional wallop that has thrilled audiences all over the world. Epic, grand and uplifting, it is the powerful affirmation of the human spirit that has made Les Misérables not only a musical masterpiece, but also quite possibly the most popular musical in the world! Visit The Ogunquit Playhouse for more info.
Tom Rush

Tom Rush

Jonathan's Restaurant
September 12, 2008 8pm
Born in Portsmouth, NH, this local yet now internationally known folk singer legend will be back once again to Jonathan’s Ogunquit. Here is what the Boston Herald had to say about one of his performances, “ A softly glowing, welcoming event. Fluid…gorgeous…ravising…ditsy…inventive…gritty…elegant.” Ticket Price $45 includes dessert and coffee or 2 house beverages. Phone: 1-800-464-9934.
Richie Havens

Richie Havens

Jonathan's Restaurant
September 27, 2008 9pm
For over three decades, Richie has used his music to convey messages of brotherhood and personal freedom. With more than twenty-five albums released and a touring schedule that would kill many a younger man, he continues to view his calling as a higher one. Ticket Price $47.50 includes dessert and coffee or 2 house beverages. Phone: 1-800-464-9934.
Tracy Gramer

Tracy Gramer

Jonathan's Restaurant
October 10, 2008 8pm
For the 1st time performing at Jonathan’s! “Tracy Grammer is a brilliant artist and unique individual. Her voice is distinctive, as is her mastery over the instruments she plays.” - Joan Baez “One of the finest pure musicians anywhere in folkdom.” - The Boston Globe Ticket Price $25 includes dessert and coffee or 2 house beverages. Phone: 1-800-464-9934.
Red Molly

Red Molly

Jonathan's Restaurant
October 12, 2008 8pm
Performing for the 1st time at Jonathan’s "Red Molly has taste, talent, and voices to die for. They make music the way it should be made: raw, powerful, and beautiful. With this band, you hear and feel the soul inside the songs. It's music to make the spirit soar." Michael Scott Cain, Author, "Midnight Train" Ticket Price $25 includes dessert and coffee or 2 house beverages. Phone: 1-800-464-9934.
Patty Larkin

Patty Larkin

Jonathan's Restaurant
October 17, 2008 8pm
A guitar focused singer/songwriter, Patty Larkin has immersed herself in a musical world that knows no borders. Her most recent solo release, Red=Luck, showcases a world where the ancient strains of modal folk meet brooding ambient noise. It is a world where Middle-Eastern flavored melodies collide with R&B, where joyous pop and somber reflection, playful eroticism and naked soul searching entwine. Ticket Price $30 includes dessert and coffee or 2 house beverages. Phone: 1-800-464-9934.
Suzanne Westenhoefer

Suzanne Westenhoefer

Jonathan's Restaurant
October 21, 2008, 9pm
The first openly gay comedian in New York, Suzanne did gay material to straight audiences in mainstream comedy clubs. She was the first lesbian comedian to garner an HBO Comedy Special, which earned her a Cable Ace Award nomination. Her live comedy special A Night at the Village runs on LOGO and Bravo. Ticket Price $35.00 includes dessert and coffee or 2 house beverages. Phone: 1-800-464-9934.


Highlights

HEDWIG AND THE ANGRY INCH

Maine Street Video Bar
Thursdays, June 5th through August 28th at 9:30pm
An everyday tale of gummi bears, flying tomatoes, a botched penectomy and the Platonic notion that sex is the human effort to reconnect two halves of our original whole, Hedwig and the Angry Inch tells the story of fourth-wall smashing East German rock 'n' roll goddess, Hedwig Schmidt. A brutally honest musical theatre experience to startle your soul. Thursday nights at MaineStreet all summer. See Hedwig's web page here.
Sally Struthers and Eddie Mekka in Fiddler on the Roof

Sally Struthers and Eddie Mekka in Fiddler on the Roof

Ogunquit Playhouse
May 28 - June 21, 2008
Often called Broadway at its best, Fiddler on the Roof transports us to Anatevka, Russia where we meet dairyman Tevye (Mekka), and his wife, Golde (Struthers), and their five daughters, as they try to cope with their harsh existence under Tsarist rule, all the while struggling to maintaining their “Traditions.” Winner of nine Tony® Awards including Best Musical, features the songs “If I Were A Rich Man” and “Matchmaker Matchmaker.” This touching story holds a universal message of community and hope that continues to resonate with audiences, making it one of the most beloved musicals of all time. Visit The Ogunquit Playhouse for more info.
Paula Poundstone Comedian

Paula Poundstone Comedian

Jonathan's Restaurant
July 4, 2008 8pm
Paula Poundstone: Back again for 3rd year in a row...don't wait long to purchase tickets as these go fast! "Acclaimed Comedian" "Best Female Stand-Up Comic"- Appearances on HBO, Comedy Central, Tonight Show: From the Boston Globe: "Paula's ability to create humor on the spot is legendary and with her casual air, impeccable timing and razor-sharp wit, she improvises with a crowd like a jazz musician." Ticket Price $42.50 includes dessert and coffee or 2 house beverages. Phone: 1-800-464-9934.