Get ready to tap your toes and kick up your heels! 

Tanglin’ Hearts is a comedy with country songs about love and longing, betrayal and loyalty, families and greed.  When Jesse Wells, a country singer-songwriter returns home to Arden County, Texas after a few years on the road, he finds out that his brother Webb is about to sell their family ranch to greedy local big-shot Ben Fredericks, as part of his massive and destructive recreational development, Benworld. Jackie, who runs The Tip-Toe Inn, a honky-tonk saloon where the locals gather—and some hide away—is the lone holdout against Ben’s unscrupulous plans. As the story unwinds, all are not who they seem, truths are revealed, hearts are mended like broken fences, and the complexities of simple lives carry on….just like in a country song. 

This show is The Waldo’s most ambitious production since our re-opening with a cast of 10 hugely talented actors/singers, a live band, Texas-inspired choreography, and 16 original and amazing songs--some will make you wanna dance, some will make you smile…and some will break your heart.

The cast for this rollicking comedy with toe-tappin' country music includes Nick Azzaretti, Soren Barker, Honora Boothby, Katie Fearn, Carole Florman, Cameron Kinney, Niall Lessard, Skip Simmonds, Mallory Smith-Adams, and Stephen Wallace.

This production is the East Coast premiere of Tanglin’ Hearts. Book and lyrics are by actress, playwright, and Edgecomb resident Zora Margolis with music by Peter Spelman. Tanglin’ Hearts, inspired by Shakespeare’s As You Like It, promises to be a fun and funny, toe tappin’ good time for audiences of all ages. The play is being directed by Lynna Henderson with musical direction by Guy Scott and choreography by Niall Lessard. 

Tanglin’ Hearts is being co-produced at The Waldo by George Bates and Zora Margolis.

Tickets are $20 in advance, $25 at the door and on day of performance if available. Youth tickets (17 and under) are $10.

 

Performances: 

Friday, September 27 – 7:30pm

Saturday, September 28 – 7:30pm

Sunday, September 29 – 2:00pm

Friday, October 4 – 7:30pm

Saturday, October 5 – 7:30pm

Reach beyond the grave with an all new show that will make you scream! 

Summoning Spirits is a seance meets magic show designed to get your heart pumping with help from the other side! Written and performed by Peter Boie, he brings to life old legends and haunted stories live on stage, for your delight… and fright. You are not going to want to miss this show!

Summoning Spirits isn’t just a show, it’s an interactive experience that combines multimedia, freaky magic effects and masterful storytelling to create one of the most unique and spine tingling experiences you will ever be a part of! 

 

"There is no better fall event you can have on campus than Summoning Spirits. Peter Boie's presentation is incredible and the sheer perfection of his magic is a sight to see. The haunted story telling ties it all together. Top to bottom a breathtaking program."

Lance Thompson, Carthage College.

 

General Admission tickets are $20 each, $25 on the day of the show and at the door. The recommended age for this show is 13+. Doors open at 5:30pm.

We want you and your talent for the 2024 Waldoboro Talent Show!

Sing, Dance Play Music, Tell a Story, Tell Jokes, Fashion, Art, Performance. All Ages welcome. Signup up at: waldoborotalentshow.com, or call Rebecca Cooney or Michael Amico at 917-873-8729.

This will be a pay-what-you-can-event.

Celebrate Native American heritage with this cultural music experience. DANCES WITH IVORY presents piano selections based on indigenous tribal melodies. The piano is used in unusual ways to achieve ethereal effects, such as strumming inside the body of the piano on the strings and using the pedals in creative ways to pick up the tonal vibrations of native flutes, singing, speaking, and playing the soundboard for drum beat effects. Dr. Lisa Cheryl Thomas was a Fulbright Scholar in Canada in 2017 at the University of Alberta and did her doctoral dissertation on native melodies that were collected by ethnographers around the turn of the 20th century.

The performance includes native storytelling to illustrate the significance of an oral tradition, a very different way of learning compared to modern schooling. Dr. Thomas performs in native regalia and uses multi-media to illustrate the cultural background of each song. She has performed this music in many theaters and concert halls in many countries. Her repertoire also includes bluegrass and patriotic American music by American composers.

We hope you’ll join us for this uniquely beautiful and moving show.

 

The Waldo Theatre recognizes that we are on indigenous land. In addition to the Abenaki, the broader place we now call Maine is home to the sovereign people of the Wabanaki Confederacy: the Penobscot, Passamaquoddy, Maliseet, and Mi'kmaq peoples. We exist on their unceded homelands. Dr. Lisa Cheryl Thomas is an enrolled citizen of Sovereign Cherokee Nation Tejas. Her native name is Danalasgisgv Unegv gola [Dances with Ivory].

 

Adult tickets are $25 in advance, $30 on the day of the show and at the door. Youth tickets are $10 each. Tickets will be available at the Box Office starting at 6:30. Doors open at 6:30, and concessions will be available for purchase.

Created by Ryan Gaul and Jeremy Brothers, Yourville is a completely improvised comedy show inspired by the characters, events, and history of the area where YOU’RE from! 

Performed by some of the funniest improv and sketch performers from around the country. In the vein of Whose Line Is It Anyway, the games and scenes are all inspired by suggestions from audience interviews, local newspapers, and what the talk of the town has been in and around your area! 

 

General admission tickets are available for $20 in advance, $25 the day of the event. A limited amount of Front Row tickets will be available for $40. If this show is not sold out, tickets are available at the box office starting at 6:00pm. Doors open at 6:00pm.