SAXTONS RIVER — The Great White Way comes to Main Street Arts on Thursday, Jan. 10, when Broadway singer Cass Morgan shares her experiences of more than 30 years in the theater.
The third of four “Taste of the Arts, Tales from a Community” events, the evening begins with supper before Morgan relates her adventures playing feature roles in eight Broadway musicals and many off-Broadway productions.
Now beginning its 25th year, Main Street Arts is a non-profit community arts center dedicated to serving the creative needs of the greater community by encouraging creative exploration and expression through a wide range of experiences.
The next event in the series features love songs with the musical group House Blend on Thursday, Feb. 14.
Among Morgan's accomplishments was a starring role in Pump Boys and Dinettes, which she co-wrote and which was nominated for a Tony Award as best musical in 1982. It is returning to Broadway this spring.
Some of Morgan's roles were in Beauty and the Beast, Floyd Collins, Ring of Fire, Mary Poppins, and Memphis, which is billed as the story of the birth of rock 'n' roll in the turbulent 1950s.
Morgan said recently that she obtained her Equity card about 40 years ago as a company member at the old Front Street Theatre in Memphis, Tenn.
Although she was born in Rochester, N.Y., she has continued the Southern connection by playing a number of Southern characters, including one of the sassy waitresses in Pump Boys and, most recently, in a full circle, Gladys Calhoun, the mother in Memphis.
After a career as a composer, performer, writer, Conceptionist, and lyricist, Morgan has left behind her life in the theater to retire to a home outside Saxtons River to be nearer to her children and grandchildren.