An Evening at Dave Sauna
Find a sitter, grab your towel, and crank up the 8-track — the year is 1980, and we're headed to the small town of Paris, Maine, where the legendary Dave’s Sauna was way more than just a place to sweat!
Here, folks were “Swinging in the Hot Box,” toasting to the “Beer Behind the Counter,” and proudly declaring “Cocaine’s a Wonderful Drug.”
Based on true(ish) events and local lore,
An Evening at Dave’s Sauna is a “Maine Naughty,” nostalgic trip full of original songs, unforgettable characters, and big belly laughs.
Come for the sauna. Stay for the sirens. Leave humming tunes you shouldn’t sing at work, and most of all,
remember what it meant to “live life right!”
We can't wait for you to join us for
"An Evening at Dave's Sauna"
Musical Reviews
Creative Team
Jonathan Leavitt
Writer & Director
Nettie Gentempo
Choreographer
Dawson Hill
Music Director
MJ and Caffeine
Cannabis and Soda
This is an original production by writer/director Jonathan Leavitt. Previous work by him includes “Jesus Christ Terrorist” (a dramatic comedic spoof of the original Jesus Christ Superstar, set post 9-11), “Mother Culture” (based on the writing of Daniel Quinn), and “Somewhere, Maine: The Marijuana Musical” (about one year on a cannabis farm in the hills of western Maine). He has also written or co-written 9 studio albums with his bands including: Growing Up the American Way, Resistance Is All We Got, Live from J. Edgar Hoover’s Closet, Politics for Pre-Schoolers, Live at the Finish Line, God, Guns, and Ganja, The Trial of Johnny Crashed, and Scenes from Somewhere Maine. He has also created a whole alternate universe based on the life of "Johnny Crashed" which can be found at www.johnnycrashed.com. He is a member of Ragtime Rebellion as "Ragtime Johnny". www.ragtimerebellion.com Jonathan is also the founder and producer for the Maine Fungi Fest www.mainefungifest.org and lives at Open Sky Farm in the western Maine foothills.
Nettie is the artistic director for the Nevaeh Dance Circus and Cold, Cold Night Burlesque. Her original choreography has been featured in the Poland Players productions of “Jesus Christ Super Star”, “Little Shop of Horrors” as well as the Cow Pasture Production of “Somewhere Maine, The Marijuana Musical” and an original production "The Dark Side Of Somewhere". Nettie has been studying dance her entire life and performs professionally as a hula hoop artist. She is also the author of "Hoop Girl and Loopy" a children's book.
In the process of becoming a professional musician and getting his BFA in theater at Emerson college, Dawson Hill was, and has since been, involved in several shows. In the Oxford Hills community he played as “Frankie” in the very successful run of “Forever Plaid”, as well as other shows like “Tick, Tick, Boom!” and “Swing!” He has also worked as the musical director in the O.M.P.A.A originals “Roles of a Lifetime “, “Cinderella”, and the musical “Aladdin”. During his time performing in Boston, he starred as “Max” in “Where the Wild Things Are” and “the Gift of the Magi”, and also created a score for an adaptation of Shakespeare’s “The Tempest”. He continues to play piano and entertain in many projects around both Maine and through out New England and is excited to be able to create original music and be a musical director for the original musical ”An Evening at Dave’s Sauna” and "Another Evening at Dave's Sauna - Holiday HiJinXXX"
Cannabis and Caffeine have worked together on many projects over the years including the entire rebuild of a farm house and a barn that was falling over, raising a handful of kids, dealing with the life of a farmer in the remote hills of Maine, and much more. Both of them would like to give a shout out to psilocybin who has also played a significant role in the journey.