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‘Love, Candy’ - An evening of love songs and tales of romance

MARSHFIELD - Celebrate the Valentine’s Day Holiday at “Love, Candy,” a cabaret co-produced with the Performing Arts Series and award-winning singer and actress, Candace Decker.

This performance is sponsored by the Laird Endowment for the Arts and will be at 7:30 p.m. Saturday, in the Helen Connor Laird Theatre at UW-Marshfield/Wood County. Tickets are $10 and ladies will receive a complimentary rose at the door.

A pre-show champagne and dessert reception will be held prior to the cabaret at 6:30 p.m. Cost is $5 per person.  To register, call the Office of Continuing Education at (715) 389-6540 or email msfce@uwc.edu.

Love, Candy will take the audience on a journey of love found, love lost and all kinds of love in-between, as Ms. Decker tells funny stories and sings touching love songs to celebrate the Valentine’s Day holiday. Highlights from the show include such classic songs as “My Romance,” “Orange Colored Sky,” “My Funny Valentine” and contemporary cabaret songs including “The Picture in the Hall,” “Sweet Dreams,” and other musical surprises. Accompanist Craig LaPointe, who recently played for Campus Community Players production “Tomfoolery,” will join her on piano.

Ms. Decker is a recipient of the “Chicago After Dark Award” for Best Actress in a musical, a New York Cabaret Symposium Fellow, an Indiana Individual Artist’s Grant and Laird Foundation Grant award winner. She has appeared in cabarets throughout the East Coast and Midwest performing with cabaret legends Sally Mayes, Julie Wilson and Margaret Whiting. Ms. Decker produced the “Cabaret Nouveau Series” for four years in Indiana bringing cabaret artists from Chicago; Washington, D.C.; and California to perform cabaret.  As part of the “Cabaret Nouveau Series,” she wrote and performed in the cabarets; “Candy for the Holidays,” “Candy Canes & Dreidels,”  “Love, Candy,” “O’Candy!,”  “Pieces of Candy,” “Candy and Friends” and “Candyland – A Kids’ Cabaret.”  In Marshfield, she revived her cabaret “Candy for the Holidays” at the Chestnut Center for the Arts in 2004.

Tickets for Love, Candy are available at the Campus Box Office.  The Box Office is open 11 a.m.-1 p.m. and 4-6 p.m. Monday through Friday and one hour before performances.  Tickets can be ordered by calling 389-6534.  VISA, MasterCard and Discover are accepted. All seating is reserved.  Tickets are non-refundable.