BANGOR — The Gracie Theatre at Husson University announced its second season beginning in the fall.
The season will kick off Saturday, Sept. 14, with award-winning country singing duo Steel Magnolia. Most recently, Steel Magnolia won first place on the television show “So You Think You Can Duet,” along with nine industry awards including Top New Vocal Duo of the Year by the Academy of Country Music in both 2010 and 2011, and a 2012 ACM Award for Vocal Duo of the Year. Band members Meghan Linsey and Joshua Scott Jones will perform hits from their debut CD featuring “Keep On Lovin’ You,” the highest charting debut single by a co-ed duo in Billboard history. The single climbed all the way to No. 5 on the Billboard Country Charts and has been downloaded more than a million times while landing in the motion picture, “Valentine’s Day.”
Film star Molly Ringwald will perform An Evening with Molly Ringwald and her Jazz Quartet Saturday, Nov. 23. The event will feature songs from Ringwald’s first solo CD “Except Sometimes” released this year.
Broadway’s favorite spoof and Tony Award winner “Forbidden Broadway” will come to the Gracie stage Feb. 1. With satirical vignettes of recent Broadway hits including “Book of Mormon,” “Wicked,” “Follies,” “Spiderman” and “Annie” the show will feature outrageous costumes, hilarious rewrites of the songs you know, and dead-on impressions by a stellar cast.
Rounding out the season will be comedian and actor Paul Reiser performing April 12. Reiser recently appeared in the HBO movie “Behind the Candelabra” starring Michael Douglas and Matt Damon about the life of Liberace.
Tickets for the four-show season are $100. Single show tickets are available at gracietheatre.com or by calling 941-7888.