Concert About First Black Cowboy Highlights Month At Bucks Playhouse

NEW HOPE, PA — Music, comedy, and a concert that dramatizes the story of America’s first black cowboy are the highlights of Bucks County Playhouse’s Visiting Artists Series this month.

On February 10 and 11, just in time for Valentine’s Day, the Playhouse will present “Shades of Bublé: A Three-Man Tribute to Michael Bublé.”

Proving perhaps that three Bublés are better than one, a cast performs incredible songs from the international recording artists’ catalog including “Feeling Good,” “Moondance,” “Come Fly With Me,” “Home,” “Everything,” “Fever,” “Save the Last Dance for Me” and many more.

“Shades of Bublé” brings the swinging standards and pop hits of Michael Bublé to the stage in an unforgettable high-energy concert event. Performances are Saturday, February 10 at 1:30 p.m. and 7:30 p.m. and Sunday, February 11 at 1:30 p.m.

"Shade of Buble" is on stage at the Bucks County Playhouse on Feb. 10 and 11.

Events take a more outrageously comic (and decidedly adult), turn on February 16 and 17, when the off-Broadway hit, “Dixie’s Tupperware Party,” rolls into New Hope.

Dixie Longate is the fast-talking, gum-chewing, ginger-haired Alabama gal who is bringing your grandma’s Tupperware party into the 21st century. Audiences will howl with laughter as Dixie demonstrates the many alternative uses for the iconic plastic kitchen staple.

Performances are Friday, February 16 at 7:30 p.m. and Saturday, February 17 at 1:30 p.m. and 7:30 p.m.

Dixie's Tupperware Party rolls onto the stage on Feb. 16 and 17.

The Playhouse will end the month February 23 and 24 with performances of “Cross That River,” a musical concert that dramatizes the story of a runaway slave who becomes one of America’s first black cowboys. The unsettled West of the 1860s provides a new life and new dreams for Blue, a run-away slave, who escapes to Texas to become one of America’s first Black Cowboys.

This compelling tale of freedom integrates fiction with historical fact, and each song in the blues and jazz jazz-inflected concert presents a different page in this complicated chapter of American History. Performances are Friday, February 23 at 7:30 p.m. and Saturday, February 24 at 1:30 p.m.

Bucks County Playhouse’s brings a variety of entertainment to its historic stage through the Visiting Artist Series every year. Renowned and unique performers from across the country (and around the globe) join local favorites for a lineup of crowd-pleasing fare through April — complimenting the Playhouse’s self-produced mainstage series which is onstage from May through December.

Here's the complete schedule of Visiting Artists Series performances:

• “Shades of Bublé ” • February 10 at 1:30 pm and 7:30 pm, February 11 at 1:30 pm
• “Dixie’s Tupperware Party” • February 16 at 7:30 pm, February 17 at 1:30 pm and 7:30 pm
• “Cross That River” • February 23 at 11 am and 7:30 pm, February 24 at 1:30 pm
• “Always Olivia” • March 1 at 7:30 pm, March 2 at 1:30 pm and 7:30 pm
• “The Sounds of Soul” • March 8 at 7:30 pm, March 9 at 1:30 pm and 7:30 pm
• “The Jersey Tenors” • March 15 at 7:30 pm, March 16 at 1:30 pm and 7:30 pm, March 17 at 1:30 pm
• “Isaac Mizrahi” • March 23 at 1:30 pm and 7:30 pm
• “Chris Funk” • March 30 at 1:30 pm and 7:30 pm
• “The Ugly Duckling” • April 5 at 9 am, 11 am and 7:30 pm
• “Take3” • April 12 at 7:30 pm
• “Norbert Leo Butz” • April 13 at 1:30 pm and 7:30 pm, April 14 at 1:30 pm
• “The Great DuBois” • April 27 at 1:30 pm and 7:30 pm
• “Claybourne Elder” • May 4 at 1:30 pm and 7:30 pm