New musical tells story of Madame Curie
Cape Cod Theatre Company/Harwich Junior Theatre will present a streaming production of “Madame Curie,” a new musical by David Kurkowski that is directed by Cate Cammarata, starring a professional cast led by Kerry Conte. The show relates the life of the first female Nobel Prize-winning scientist, who emigrated 1,000 miles from Poland to France, overcame xenophobia and sexism, and pioneered the public’s understanding of radioactivity, including helping more than one million WWI soldiers by invention mobile X-ray units.
When: 7 p.m. Thursday through Sunday
Where: https://www.facebook.com/jester51 or on YouTube at CCTC HJT
Local musicians can’t play live, but that hasn’t stopped those who typically organize benefit concerts at this time of year from helping neighbors in need.
Both the Cape Cod Christmas Cavalcade and Yule for Fuel featuring dozens of performers among them are back in a virtual way this year. Online compilations of numbers from past shows are available to watch, with hopes that you’ll also donate to help people who are having trouble paying for housing and paying fuel bills. Watch for some live online appearances and 2020 surprises.
Another online concert put together by various acts aims to help buy food for employees in the hospitality industry hit hard by the effect of COVID-19 on travel.