Cape Cod Melody Tent

The Melody Tent Box Office is now closed for the season. Please call the Music Circus, our sister theatre, at 781-383-9850 for assistance.

In 1950 actress Gertrude Lawrence and her husband, producer-manager Richard Aldrich, opened the Cape Cod Melody Tent to showcase Broadway musicals and concerts. Today it's the region's top venue for pop concerts and comedy shows. Performers who have played here in the round include the Indigo Girls, Lyle Lovett, Tony Bennett, Diana Krall, and Crosby, Stills & Nash. The Tent also holds an 11 am...

Built as a summer theater in 1950, this billowy, blue big-top proved even better suited to variety shows. A nonprofit venture since 1990 (proceeds fund other cultural initiatives Cape-wide), the Melody Tent has hosted the major performers of the past half-century, from jazz greats to comedians, crooners to rockers. Every seat is a winner in this grand oval, only 20 banked aisles deep. Curtains...

In Short
Like its sister venue, the South Shore Music Circus, the venerable Cape Cod Melody Tent is one of the region's hot spots if you're into oldies. The tent contains a stage that's...

For more than 50 years, the South Shore Music Circus and it's sister venue, the Cape Cod Melody Tent, have been presenting world-class entertainment in the scenic Massachusetts coastal communities of Cohasset and Hyannis.The only two continuously-operated tent theatres in the round in the United States, the Music Circus and Melody Tent are owned and operated by the South Shore Playhouse...