Allen LaMontagne
Allen LaMontagne, best known in Kent County, as Rector of St. Paul’s Parish will bring a program of songs from the 20th Century American Songbook, show tunes and contemporary folk songs to the Mainstay in Rock Hall, MD on Sunday September 7 at 4:00 p.m. He will be accompanied by pianist Joe Holt. Admission is free.
While Allen LaMontagne is best known locally as Rector of St. Paul’s Parish, he has an extensive background in community theater and has played many roles in various musicals. For this New Directions concert, he has been working on a program of songs from the 20th Century Great American Songbook and contemporary folk songs all to the sparkling piano accompaniment of Joe Holt. Holt will play a few solo pieces and LaMontagne will also play guitar on some numbers. This will be a delightful afternoon of wonderful songs with terrific piano settings.
Joe Holt
LaMontagne’s first theater experience was a college production of Brigadoon playing Jeff Douglas. “When I said a humorous line and the audience responded with laughter, I fell in love with the stage,” he says.
While living in Litchfield County, Connecticut he played Emile de Becque in South Pacific, Richard Henry Lee in 1776; Juan Peron in Evita; Nicky Arnstein in Funny Girl; Freddy Eynsford-Hill in My Fair Lady, Doc Gibbs in Our Town; and Fred Graham/Petrucchio in Kiss Me Kate. He was a founding member of the Put-in-Bay (Ohio) Arts Council and Community Theater where he directed two plays, a farcical adaptation of Charles Dickens’ Christmas Caroland Thornton Wilder’s Our Town, and took acting roles in several other productions.
He has previously appeared on the Mainstay stage as the male lead in the play “Love Letters” which he also directed.
The Mainstay’s “New Directions” series encourages established musicians to explore new areas and journeymen to expand their skills, their repertoire and generally to take it to the next level.
The Mainstay (Home of Musical Magic) is the friendly informal storefront performing arts center on Rock Hall’s old time Main Street. For information and reservations call the Mainstay at 410-639-9133. More information is also available at the Mainstay’s website https://www.mainstayrockhall.org.
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