Michael Ricca
In
What Matters Most
with Ron Roy, on piano

March 6-8, 2020
Tickets: $30, plus fees

Singer Michael Ricca will perform his one-man show What Matters Most, a lively and poignant musical evening exploring the people, places, and ideas that matter most in life. Using an array of musical styles, What Matters Most looks at how we determine our priorities, and the many ways we evaluate what’s important to us. This musical meditation on our values, features an eclectic mix of songs by Michel Legrand, Stephen Sondheim, Cat Stevens, Elton John, Burt Bacharach, Duke Ellington, and many more. As always, Mr. Ricca will be joined by the incomparable Ron Roy, on piano.

About the Artist
Michael Ricca has performed in jazz and cabaret rooms, theatres and venues throughout New England, Chicago and New York, most recently in several performances at the Metropolitan Room.  He’s headlined at several New York area venues, including Arci’s Place and Danny’s Skylight Room.  In 2014, he made his seventh sold out appearance at Scullers Jazz Club in the show, Still That Boy.  For many years, he performed with the local jazz vocal group At the Movies. Their CD, Reel One, was released in 2003. The group received the IRNE award for best cabaret performance in 2004. Also an actor, Mr. Ricca is a founding member of Titanic Theatre Company.

In partnership with The Cambridge Historical Society, we invite artists David Fichter, Eryn Johnson, and Vincent Siders to discuss how the arts can serve as a catalyst for– or reaction to– change. We ask, how is their work informed by a history of social justice in the arts? Does this build on a legacy of such work in Cambridge? Dr. Marty Blatt will moderate the conversation. This event is part of Central Square Theater’s Central Conversations series and the final History Café of the Society’s 2019 “How Does Cambridge Engage?” programming.

This event will be held during the Nora Theatre Company and Bedlam’s production of The Crucible, framed and inspired by the #metoo movement.

When: Monday, September 23, 2019.

Doors open 6:00. Event begins 6:30.

RSVP at Eventbrite.

Tickets: Members $10 // Non-Members $15 Visit cambridgehistory.org for more information!

Eryn Johnson is the executive director of the Community Art Center and helped create the Youth Development in the Arts Youth Work Training curriculum (image top left).

Vincent Siders is an award-winning actor, director, producer, and educator. He serves as the Lead Instructor and Director of the Ambassadors of Youth Underground at Central Square Theater (image top right).

David Fichter is an internally-recognized muralist, and his art can be found throughout Cambridge. Depicted here is a detail of his 1994 mural “The Potluck,” located in Central Square (image bottom left).

Dr. Martin Blatt is director of the Public History Program at Northeastern University. He has an advocate of the arts and a longtime supporter of the Central Square Theater (image bottom right).