Umbrella Stage’s ‘Hundred Days’ Combines Concert and Drama

Jess Andra and Kirk Vanda as The Bengsons in Emerson Umbrella’s ‘One Hundred Days’

by Tom Boudrot

‘Hundred Days’ – Book by The Bengsons and Sarah Gancher; Music and Lyrics by The Bengsons; Brian Boruta, Producer and Director; David Wright, Music Director; Ryan Bates, Scenic Designer; Brian Simons, Costume Designer; Seif Allah Sallotto-Cristobal, Lighting and Video Designer; Elizabeth Havenor, Sound Designer. Properties Design by Sarajane Morse Mullins; Presented by The Umbrella Stage Company, 40 Stow Street, Concord through February 16th.

If you’ve been cooped up with the cold weather and ready to get out for an evening’s entertainment, Hundred Days may be the perfect choice for combating those winter blahs.  Why? Because it’s a smorgasbord of delights that has everything you’d like to see in a live show. Is this a concert? A musical? A comedy? A moving drama of love and loss? Yes, yes, yes and yes. It is all of the above.

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