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“If you’re lucky, there comes a time in your life, usually when you least expect it, and aren’t remotely looking for it… you meet someone.” – Love Changes Everything.

The Marion Art Center acting/musical troupe will again be entertaining the Tri-Town with a musical revue entitled Love Changes Everything. The musical, which is the result of a collaboration between Eastern Nazarene theater student Michael Amaral and musical director Nancy Sparklin, follows the phases of love from infatuation to cynicism to a love-epiphany.

Love Changes Everything tells the story of love’s evolution through original narration, written by Mr. Amaral, and popular Broadway standards, including: “Love Changes Everything” from Andrew Lloyd Webber’s opera Aspects of Love, “Adelaide’s Lament” from Guys and Dolls, “Cell Block Tango” from Chicago, and the heart-wrenching “I’ll Be Seeing You”, a song from the musical Right This Way that tells the story of a World War II widow who has just lost her husband.

Although it has its serious moments, Marion Art Center assistant to the director Deborah Bokelkamp said that, “it is a hilarious show… the show should probably be called ‘Cleavage and Attitude.’” The other title for the show is: Wine, Women and Song. Ms. Bokelkamp said that this musical would make a great girls’ night out, and encourages people to make this an “invite all your friends” type of event. Just the same, she does not want to discourage men from attending, since the show is all about “six gorgeous women.”

The musical comes full-circle, said Ms. Bokelkamp. The ending shows that “if you love yourself, you realize that you are surrounded by love everywhere,” she added. Among the forms of love that we must cherish are the love of friends and self ­– not just romantic love.

Those included in the playbill are Paul Kandarian, who will play the narrator of the story, Mary Cardwell, Stephanie Caron (who will entertain the audience with a seething rendition of “I Hate Men”), Sheila Furtado (who will scandalize the audience with a flirtatious song called “I Can Cook, Too”), Kim Teves and Nicole Schaub.

Tables are available for parties of four or more at no extra cost. A lot of advance tickets have already been sold, so Ms. Bokelcamp urges people to reserve their tickets. Each night can only accommodate 70 guests, so each show is likely going to fill up quickly.

Tickets are $12.50 for members and $15 for the public at-large. The show will be held on Friday, July 30, and runs on Saturday, July 31, Friday, August 6, Saturday, August 7, and Sunday, August 8. All shows start at 8:00 pm, and tickets can be purchased by calling the Marion Art Center at 508-748-1266, or by stopping by the Center, located at 80 Pleasant Street, during their hours: Tuesday through Friday, 1:00 to 5:00 pm, and Saturday from 10:00 am to 4:00 pm.

“It’s not easy, this love thing,” says the musical narrator, “but nothing worth having is ever easy – right?” Come find out at the Marion Art Center’s production of Love Changes Everything: Wine, Women and Song.

By Anne O’Brien-Kakley

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