'Home With Hammerstein' To Share Stories Of Oscar In Bucks

DOYLESTOWN, PA — The Oscar Hammerstein Museum and Theatre Education Center, in conjunction with On Demand Programs & Events, presents performer Barbara Weikamp in her "Home With Hammerstein" concert, featuring her husband and Doylestown native Nick Dunn, who served as Oscar Hammerstein’s paperboy decades ago, accompanied by Bill Gottshall on piano.

The concert will take place on Sunday, March 22 at 2 p.m. at the James-Lorah Memorial Auditorium: 100 N. Broad Street, Doylestown. Tickets are $20 and are available at hammersteinmuseum.org/homewithhammerstein

Barbara Weikamp has performed from coast to coast. Born and raised outside of Cleveland, Barb was a performing arts major at Baldwin Wallace College. After college, she pursued a show business career that led her to the Burt Reynolds Theatre, The Carousel Dinner Theatre, Theatre by the Sea, the Great Lakes Shakespeare Festival and Walt Disney World’s Hoop Dee Doo Revue.

Weikamp spent six years doing various shows on cruise ships in the Caribbean, Alaska, Mexico and Hawaii. She also spent 10 years teaching voice and acting at The Community Conservatory of Music in her current hometown of Doylestown. She now produces, writes, and directs one-woman shows that entertain audiences through song, storytelling, and humor. As an actress and performance artist, Barbara brings her characters to life in full costume.

Nick Dunn, MC, was indeed Oscar Hammerstein's paperboy. Nick grew up across the fields from Hammerstein’s home at Highland Farm in Doylestown. No matter how many books, biographies, or documentaries you've seen, you will hear some personal stories you probably never heard before in Home with Hammerstein.

Bill Gottshall, pianist, is a playwright and composer who has written several plays and has composed or arranged more than 100 pieces of music for vocal and instrumental ensembles. Bill was the Chair of the Piano Department at the Community Conservatory of Music in Doylestown. He also served as a teaching artist with two different non-profit educational foundations, Delaware Valley Arts Institute, based in Doylestown, and Arts of Anyone, based in Lawrenceville, NJ. Bill graduated from Boston’s Berklee College of Music in 1978 with a degree in music composition.

During the 1980s, Bill was an assistant to the music director on the Tony Award-winning Broadway musical, “My One and Only.” He frequently performs jazz in the Philadelphia area, both as a solo performer and with small combos.