Damariscotta, Maine - Lincoln County Community Theater (LCCT), the resident theater company at Damariscotta’s Lincoln Theater, has embarked on new relationships and an innovative approach for its upcoming concert production of HMS Pinafore, with three performances only the weekend of March 8.
According to Wikipedia, Community Theater "may refer to theatre that is made entirely by a community with no outside help, or to collaboration between community members and professional theatre artists, or to performance made entirely by professionals that is addressed to a particular community." For LCCT’s production, the company is continuing the tradition of hiring orchestra members and is working to put together an ensemble of the best professional and amateur musicians. As part of that, LCCT is pleased to announce that Maine’s own Daponte String Quartet will be joining its group of 13 instrumentalists as the core of its "Never Never Sick at Sea Symphony Orchestra."
Secondly, on the innovation side, LCCT has inaugurated a crowd-funding project through the support of www.rockethub.com to underwrite the purchase of the orchestral music, and to support the musicians. The
