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The Jack Of Hearts Club
Beginning performance the first week in October, we’re honored to host the world premiere of Provincetown composer Jon Richardson’s new musical, The Jack of Hearts Club. Developed in part at our theater over the past five years, Richardson’s musical is set in a rag-tag gay bar in Provincetown at the end of the summer in 1963. The show’s gorgeous music and heartfelt story will transport you into the era and into the lives of its close-knit band of friends, lovers, mothers, and divas while they prepare to toast the end of the season with their annual “So Long, Summer” cabaret show, as each character in The Jack of Hearts Club finds themselves at a significant crossroads in their lives.
Reviews for The Jack Of Hearts Club
The Jack Of Hearts Club
Provincetown Theater
The ensemble in The Jack of Hearts Club is brilliantly cast, a mix of local and outside talent, with each character a perfect fit with its performer. Mary Callanan, as club owner Dorothy, brings a theater vet’s confidence to the role, and she sings with burlesque charm. As Elizabeth, her daughter, Brittany Rolfs has a powerhouse voice and an intense emotionality. As Queena, the club’s grande dame, James Jackson Jr. offers charisma to spare and sings with a commanding R&B inflection that steals every scene he’s in. João Santos, as Sebastian, is precisely the comic sidekick Queena requires. Peter Toto and Angelo McDonough deliver great patter and dancing as the closeted couple Timmy and Arthur, respectively. Local artist Mike Sullivan is thoroughly disarming as Charlie, and the Provincetown Brewing Co.’s Christopher Spaulding is persuasive as Clive, the man about town. Marissa Miller, as Maggie, has a knockout, lilting voice and an alluring presence. And at the center of it all, acting while accompanying every song on the piano, author-composer Jon Richardson is terrific as Sonny, from his sweetly naïve start to his deeply touching end.
The Jack Of Hearts Club
Provincetown Theater
There is so much here to enjoy. The songs themselves are wonderful, and everyone delivers them with exceptional talent. And so many of the lines are laugh-out-loud funny. Just one of many examples: when Maggie encourages Elizabeth to find the courage to leave, she points out the boats they can see in the harbor, and goes into the cliché about them being built not to be at anchor but out in the open sea, Elizabeth sighs. “Those are houseboats, babe,” she says.
The ensemble in The Jack of Hearts Club is brilliantly cast, a mix of local and outside talent, with each character a perfect fit with its performer. Mary Callanan, as club owner Dorothy, brings a theater vet’s confidence to the role, and she sings with burlesque charm. As Elizabeth, her daughter, Brittany Rolfs has a powerhouse voice and an intense emotionality. As Queena, the club’s grande dame, James Jackson Jr. offers charisma to spare and sings with a commanding R&B inflection that steals every scene he’s in. João Santos, as Sebastian, is precisely the comic sidekick Queena requires. Peter Toto and Angelo McDonough deliver great patter and dancing as the closeted couple Timmy and Arthur, respectively. Local artist Mike Sullivan is thoroughly disarming as Charlie, and the Provincetown Brewing Co.’s Christopher Spaulding is persuasive as Clive, the man about town. Marissa Miller, as Maggie, has a knockout, lilting voice and an alluring presence. And at the center of it all, acting while accompanying every song on the piano, author-composer Jon Richardson is terrific as Sonny, from his sweetly naïve start to his deeply touching end.
There is so much here to enjoy. The songs themselves are wonderful, and everyone delivers them with exceptional talent. And so many of the lines are laugh-out-loud funny. Just one of many examples: when Maggie encourages Elizabeth to find the courage to leave, she points out the boats they can see in the harbor, and goes into the cliché about them being built not to be at anchor but out in the open sea, Elizabeth sighs. “Those are houseboats, babe,” she says.
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