THE PALACE IN WATERBURY INVITES YOU TO LISTEN TO "STEREOPHONIC"

Can you ever imagine living life on the cusp? The cusp is where you balance precariously on the edge, of either victory and defeat, success or failure, triumph or disaster? It is not a comfortable place to be, but oh, how exciting and nerve wracking. To experience the agony and the ecstasy of this dangerously exciting predicament, settle back with a young up and coming band on the verge of superstardom or utter oblivion in “Stereophonic” coming to Waterbury’s Palace Theater for one night, Wednesday, March 25 at 7:30 p.m.

Put yourself in a music studio. It’s 1976. Imagine you are a member of a rock and roll band recording your second album and anything and everything is ecstastically possible. Will you soar to greatness? Will you crash and burn, miss the spotlight and fade into obscurity to never be heard from again?

For three hours and ten minutes your fate and future hang in the balance. Will creativity consume you and lead you heavenward or will it abandon you and force you to desert all your hopes and dreams? Written by David Adjmi with original music by Will Butler of Arcade Fire, “Stereophonic” follows a ficticious 1970’s band recording a rock and roll album in Sausalito, California. Praised for its energy and realistic depiction of the creative process, with all its messy and emotional aspects, the play exposes the interpersonal conflicts, and the ambitions and anxieties of the band members, as they seal their own fate. What is at stake is highlighted, balanced against the pressure of success, the sexual tensions and the detrimental effects of drug abuse, like cocaine and alcohol. This, the most Tony-nominated play of all time, is directed by Daniel Aukin.

For tickets($49-89), call the Palace Theater, 100 East Main Street, Waterbury at 203-346-2000 or online at palacetheaterct.org.

Engage yourself emotionally and intimately with an exciting new musical group that could easily reach stardom or just as easily explode into nothingness, trapped as it is in a creative process of its own making.