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Seaglass Theater Company will present And the Beat Goes On…100 Years of Cabaret Music

When

Sun 10 / 26 / 2025
3:00 PM to 4:30 PM

Where

Unitarian Memorial Church
102 Green St
Fairhaven MA 02719

Who can attend

Open to all

Price

$30.00

Seaglass Theater Company will present And the Beat Goes On…100 Years of Cabaret Music at  two historic Massachusetts churches.  

Saturday October 25th at 3:00pm: United Congregational Church in Milton

Sunday October 26th at 3:00pm: Unitarian Memorial Church in Fairhaven 

Featuring: Kaileigh Riess (vocalist), Marcus Huber (vocalist), Matthew Larson (music director and pianist) 

Come celebrate a century of funny, sad, risqué and memorable music performed in a club  setting! There will be appetizers, desserts and beverages to enjoy at your table as you listen to  Kaileigh and Marcus perform songs ranging from 1920s Berlin to present-day Hollywood, from  Kurt Weill to Lady Gaga, Benjamin Britten to Billy Joel! Be ready for a few surprises along the  way – it will be an afternoon to remember. 

The concert stars Kaileigh Riess, Marcus Huber and Matthew Larson-three incredibly versatile  artists who are also dynamic storytellers.  

“I am thrilled that we were able to get these three in-demand artists together for this cabaret-it  is sure to be a unique and entertaining experience.” says Artistic Director Patrice Tiedemann. 

Tickets are $30.00, and include nibbles and sips, and may be purchased online for October 26 in Fairhaven at:  TICKETS

Tickets may also be purchased with cash, credit card, or check the day of the concerts at  each venue a half hour before each performance.  

 

For more information, please visit www.seaglasstheater.com or call 508-951-7187.  ABOUT THE PERFORMERS 

KAILEIGH RIESS- Soprano Kaileigh Riess is a dynamic performer dedicated to bringing fierce authenticity, lyrical beauty, and vivid expressivity to operatic, crossover, and contemporary repertoire, and is thrilled to be returning to Seaglass Theatre Company this season.

Favorite stage credits include include Nannetta (Falstaff), Violetta (La traviata), Rosina (The Barber of Seville), Anne Trulove (The Rake’s Progress), Contessa Almaviva (Le nozze di Figaro), Laurie (The Tender Land), and Blanche (Dialogues of the Carmelites). Kaileigh completed her education at Northwestern University, the University of Southern California, and the Boston University Opera Institute and has since worked with Boston Lyric Opera, Virginia Opera, Des Moines Metro Opera, Central City Opera, Pacific Northwest Opera, Opera in the Pines, Beth Morrison Projects, and the Boston Pops. Kaileigh has received awards in the Lotte Lenya Competition, the Laffont Competition, and the Jensen Foundation Vocal Competition and was a quarterfinalist in the American Traditions Competition. This summer, Kaileigh was a resident artist at the Glimmerglass Festival, where she covered Dot/Marie in Sunday in the Park with George, Lucy in The House on Mango Street and performed as Bard in Odyssey. She can next be seen in Michael Gordon’s What to Wear with Beth Morrison Projects. Kaileigh is based in New York and represented by Encompass Arts. 

MARCUS HUBER- Described as “warm, earnest, and confident” onstage (Boston Music  Intelligencer), Marcus Huber is a Boston-based singer, performer, and voice teacher. He began  the 2025-26 season performing in the chorus of Verdi's Macbeth with Boston Lyric Opera.  Last season, Marcus performed the role of Benjamin Guggenheim in Titanic at North Shore  Music Theatre, competed as a semifinalist in the Lotte Lenya Competition, and performed  Shepherd's Triptych and Faure's Poeme d'un jour with Seaglass Theatre Company and the New  Bedford Symphony. Other recent engagements include Tonio in La fille du régiment with Opera  Company of Middlebury, Elder Hayes in Susannah with Delaware Valley Opera (NY), Stars and  Stripes with Seaglass Theatre Company, and the tenor solos in Haydn's Paukenmesse with the Greater New Bedford Choral Society. 

Previously, Marcus performed the roles of George Gibbs in Rorem’s Our Town, Laurie in  Adamo’s Little Women, David in Heggie's If I Were You, and William in Sankaram's The Infinite  Energy of Ada Lovelace with Boston University Opera Institute. Past concert performances  include the tenor solos in Handel’s Messiah with Rhode Island Civic Chorale and Orchestra,  Mozart’s Waisenhausmesse with the Boston University Singers and Chamber Orchestra,  Haydn's Paukenmesse with Temple University Concert Choir, and Mozart's Missa longa with  Thomas Jefferson University Choir. 

Also at home on the musical theater stage, Marcus has performed in The Hunchback of Notre  Dame at Fulton Theater, Hello! Dolly and Cinderella at The Ohio Light Opera, Summer of Song at  Timbers Dinner Theater, and My Fair Lady with Servant Stage Company. 

Marcus has been a studio artist with Opera Neo and a young artist at The Ohio Light Opera.  He holds a Master of Music degree from Boston University and a Bachelor of Music degree  from Temple University. 

DR. MATTHEW LARSON-He received his Doctorate in Collaborative Piano from Arizona State  University under the tutelage of Eckart Sellheim. An accomplished recitalist, Dr. Larson has  played over 700 concerts in the U.S. and Europe. He has worked with Metropolitan Opera stars  Carol Vaness, Lawrence Brownlee, Jennifer Larmore and Sherrill Milnes; Academy of Ancient  Music director Christopher Hogwood; vocal pedagogy pioneer Richard Miller; and the eminent  collaborative artist Dalton Baldwin, with whom Matthew was invited to study in New York. He  has served as Assistant Conductor for Boston Lyric Opera; Music Director of University of  Connecticut’s Opera Program; Pianist/Coach for Yale University’s Opera Program; Vocal Coach  and Music Director for Arizona State University’s Lyric Opera Theater; Staff Pianist for The  American Institute of Musical Studies in Graz, Austria; Music Director of Opera Providence;  Vocal Coach at Walnut Hill School for the Arts; Staff Pianist for Opera New England; Pianist for  the Boston Symphony Orchestra Tanglewood Festival Chorus; and Music Director of Cape Cod  Opera. As a clinician, Dr. Larson has been a guest artist or artist-in- residence at Yale University,  Brown University, Harvard University, University of Nebraska at Lincoln, Arizona State  University, Wheaton College, University of Connecticut, and Eastern Mennonite University.  Currently, Dr. Larson serves on the Faculty of the Boston University Opera Institute; as Music  Director for Seaglass Theater Company; and as Minister of Music at United Congregational  Church in Milton, Massachusetts.