Rogovoy Report For July 24, 2015.

It’s a weekend full of new music, old music, folk music, Broadway music, musical comedy, soul music, opera, and more in our region. Here are just a few highlights.

The Chapin Family Reunion, featuring performances by Tom Chapin, the Jen Chapin Trio, and the Chapin Sisters, will perform for two nights at the Guthrie Center in Great Barrington tonight and Saturday at 8pm each night. The program is in memory of the late singer-songwriter Harry Chapin, Tom’s brother and Jen’s father, who died 34 years ago this summer. Jen Chapin is an urban-folk-soul singer-songwriter, Tom Chapin is best known as a children’s performer who also writes grown-up songs, and Tom Chapin’s daughters Abigail Chapin and Lily Chapin sing sweet harmonies over partly-twisted lyrics as the Chapin Sisters. 

The Skivvies bring their adult-rated musical comedy act performed almost in the raw to Goodrich Hall on the Williams College campus as part of the Williamstown Theatre Festival on Sunday and Monday at 7:30pm. Lauren Molina and Nick Cearley aka The Skivvies perform stripped-down mashups of pop songs and show tunes in their underwear. They will bare their considerable physiques and more with special guests Will Swenson, Randy Harrison, Alison Fraser, and Benjamin Scheuer.

Broadway musical stars Marin Mazzie and Jason Danieley will perform their favorite songs from the Broadway musicals they’ve starred in along with selections from the so-called Great American Songbook in “Broadway and Beyond” on the mainstage at Barrington Stage Company in Pittsfield on Monday at 8pm.

The sounds of new music will resound throughout the campus, galleries, hallways and concert stages of MASS MoCA in North Adams for the 14th summer in a row, as the Bang on a Can Summer Music Festival brings together an all-star lineup of composers, performers, teachers, and fellows. Festival highlights include a performance of Bang on a Can co-founder Michael Gordon’s oratorio “Van Gogh,” performed by the Bang on a Can All-Stars, this Saturday at 8pm.

This is the weekend that Tanglewood also devotes to new and contemporary music. Conductor Michael Tilson Thomas, soprano Dawn Upshaw, and pianists Ursula Oppens and Peter Serkin will be featured performers in Tanglewood’s Festival of Contemporary Music, running now through Monday in Ozawa Hall.

Gauthier Dance, the dynamic resident dance company of the Theaterhaus Stuttgart in Germany, will appear in its full company U.S. debut in the Doris Duke Theatre at Jacob’s Pillow Dance Festival in Becket today through Sunday. The program includes music by Dean Martin, cellist Zoë Keating, Estonian composer ArvoPärt, Kate Bush, La Lupe, and others.

Accordion virtuoso Guy Klucevsek and Bang on a Can cellist Ashley Bathgate perform back-to-back duo concerts at PS21 in Chatham on Saturday, at 8pm and on Sunday, at 2pm, respectively. Alex Meixner joins Guy Klucevsek for a program of “Accordion Solos and Duos” on Saturday. Ashley Bathgate performs with pianist Karl Larson on Sunday. A native of nearby Saratoga Springs, Bathgate attended Skidmore College, Bard College, and the Yale University School of Music. Her afternoon program will feature works by J.S. Bach, Ken Thomson and Brahms.

Soul singer Bettye LaVette, the self-described “overnight sensation after 50 years in the music business,” brings her impassioned, elastic vocals and her dynamic R&B remakes of pop and rock hits by the likes of the Who, Bob Dylan, Peter Gabriel, the Beatles, the Rolling Stones, Lucinda Williams and Sinead O’Connor to Club Helsinki Hudson tonight at 9pm.

The first fully-staged American production of “The Wreckers” by Dame Ethel Smyth opens in the Fisher Center at Bard College as part of the Bard SummerScape festival tonight and runs for five performances through August 2. Although Smyth remains the only female composer whose work has ever been produced at the Metropolitan Opera, “The Wreckers” – her greatest contribution to the genre – has yet to be staged in the United States.