Wait Wait's Peter Sagal and Symphony by the Sea at the Cabot Theater

The evening's program will feature the quick-witted Peter presenting an original theatre and comedy piece called A Personal Journey Through and To The Constitution. The piece is based on the 2013 PBS Documentary Constitution USA with Peter Sagal in which he traveled across the country by motorcycle in search of where the U.S. Constitution lives, how it works and how it doesn’t . . . how it unites us as a nation and how it has nearly torn us apart. Sagal says, "I'll talk about the people I met and some of the (untelevised) experiences I had while making the documentary, and the questions I had about how the Constitution actually works, how it has survived and the answers I arrived at."

Sagal will also provide poetic narration for Camille Saint-Saëns' The Carnival of The Animals as performed by members of Symphony by the Sea. In 1949, Poet Ogden Nash wrote humorous verses to accompany the music, for "Le carnaval des animaux," which was composed by Saint-Saëns in 1886. And lastly, Peter will lead the Symphony players in a piece from the 1958 Broadway Show Gigi "The Night They Invented Champagne" while the audience receives champagne for the celebration.

Symphony By The Sea, under the direction of Donald Palma, celebrates its 35th Anniversary Season with a gala fundraising concert titled An Evening of Champagne, Music and Comedy.