Harwood Musical Theatre Alumni Cabaret is this Saturday, March 14
March 10, 2025 | By Waterbury RoundaboutUpdate
The program is locked in for this weekend’s Harwood Musical Theatre’s Alumni Cabaret at The Big Picture in Waitsfield.
This benefit supporting the Harwood Auditorium Revitalization Project (a.k.a. HARP) will present multiple generations of Harwood graduates: Kim Anderson (2001), Elsie Dawn (2025), Jesse Hawkes (1995), Elizah Hill (2014), Malayna Knox (2015), Nina Sklar (2016), Wanda Sullivan (2022) and Francesca Terenzini (2000).
The program also will feature a preview performance from Harwood’s spring production of the musical “Hadestown,” which will be presented in April.
“The Harwood stage has been home to so many of us over the years,” said event organizer and Harwood alumna and former teacher Stefanie Weigand, “and it will be truly special to be performing again with old friends, former students, as well as my actual family. This space deserves to be restored and maintained as a hub for the student body and the community at large. We can’t wait to celebrate together this weekend...it feels like home, in a lot of ways.”
Tickets are by donation at the door. More information about HARP is online at harpvt.org.
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Harwood Theatre alums needed for cabaret fundraiser, March 14
January 26, 2025 | By Waterbury Roundabout
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An upcoming cabaret fundraiser for the Harwood Auditorium Revitalization Project is seeking alumni from the school’s theatre program to fill out the bill.
The March 14 event on the Harwood stage will benefit the project to refurbish the auditorium’s infrastructure while bringing together generations of performers from Harwood's past.
Organizer Stefanie Maas Weigand, a former Harwood music teacher and 2000 Harwood graduate, is recruiting alumni to put together the program. Solo acts, duos, trios, etc., are encouraged. Rehearsals will take place on the day of the concert to accommodate out-of-town performers who can visit for the event.
Anyone wishing to be involved but not interested in an individual performance is invited to join for a closing group number. “The more the merrier as we celebrate our incredible community and share memories from our time together on stage,” Weigand said in announcing the event.
Those interested should use this online form to sign up.
The HARP project, as it’s been named, is a campaign to raise $1.3 million to make needed upgrades and renovations to Harwood Union High School’s auditorium, which was last updated in 1997.
Organizers hope to divide the various project elements into several phases to replace all of the theater rigging equipment and curtains, bring the space’s electrical system up to modern code, add wireless microphones for performers to use on stage and other upgrades. Learn more on the project website harpvt.org.
The cabaret event is being scheduled for 7 p.m. on Saturday, March 14. Weigand said updates will be posted on Instagram @harp_vt and @harwood_theatre.