People of all ages and levels of ability and experience write and perform our community musicals. Our upbeat and heart-warming productions reflect the lives and imaginations of local folks. We put together project teams led by supportive teachers and directors, add a big dose of creative energy, and achieve top notch results.

Anyone who wants to help write or to perform in our musicals is welcome. When we audition people for the productions, it is solely to match people to roles. Everyone is given a place. In fact, we have even written extra parts after the auditions to provide roles for more people. Our casts are usually about 60 people, ranging in age from 2 to 82.

For information about our next musical, please contact director Anne Geller.

Voices of the River (1994) - Foothills Arts Center's first community musical was produced as a part of the Jay-Livermore-Livermore Falls-Canton-Fayette Bicentennial Celebration and featured dramatizations of stories provided to Foothills by people who had lived their lives along the Androscoggin River.

Jukebox Jubilee (1995) - For this variety show, we created a jukebox stage decorated with hundreds of 5-foot-round paintings by people of all ages that depicted the "records" of the lives of the artists, who were all residents of the Jay and Livermore-area communities. The show featured several original music and dance numbers and comical scenes.

Taller Than Truth: Tales of Paul Bunyan and Other Big Folks (1997) - This musical featured stories and characters from traditional tall tales, an original tall tale about the No. Jay granite quarry, and a number of "tall" musical numbers. This school-community collaboration included curriculum units related to tall tales.

Ma Bean's Front Porch Memories (1999) - This project began in 1998 with community and in-school story-telling workshops which led to the writing of an original musical based on the life of the popular community activist Charlotte Pike Bean (1882-1974), of Livermore Falls.

Upcountry Crossings (2001) - Through comedy, romance, and song, this show traced the history of the railroad that used to run from Livermore Falls to Rangeley.