Casper native Matt Stairs has returned to his hometown for a special ARTCORE Recital on Friday, February 3rd.

Matt graduated with his Bachelor of Fine Arts in Musical Theatre from Minnesota State University, Mankato in May.  In his time at MSU, he played iconic roles such as Gaston in Disney’s Beauty and the Beast, John Wilkes Booth in Assassins, Thomas Andrews in Titanic the Musical and finished up his school career as Bert in Mary Poppins.  Since then he has been traveling the country working as a full time actor first with Blue Gate Musicals for 6 months, and recently just finished a six week contract in Louisville KY working as a performer at Christmas at the Galt, located in the Galt House.

Casper audiences will remember Matt from his stand-out performances at Casper College including Singin' In The Rain, Godspell,, and A Little Night Music.

Matt has invited guests to join him in this concert.  reVerb is an up and coming A cappella group right here in Casper.  Inspired by Pentatonix and brought together by Logan Stairs (Matthew’s brother), the group debuted in Kelly Walsh’s Pops Concert in May 2016.  Ever since then they have performed in every KW Choir Concert and have even been creating their own arrangements for the events, but their most recent achievement is a Facebook video of the group singing the Pentatonix rendition of "Santa Clause is Comin’ to Town" that went viral.  Since Dec. 22, 2016 the video has received over 45,000 views.  The members of the group are Logan Stairs, Caleb Hopman, Tyler Gregory, Brooke Cleverly, and Izabelle Cardenas.  They will be performing one of their original works at this event.

The performance will be at the First United Methodist Church at 7:30 p.m on Friday, February 3rd. Tickets are available at the door and are $13 for Adults, $12 for Seniors, $7 for Students and Teachers, and $5 for those 12 & under.  For more information, call 265-1564.

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