You know the tunes of Rodgers and Hammerstein, and Steven Sondheim. Now imagine them in the same musical. Jonathan Mastro, a visiting artist in the theater department of Colby College, did. He took numbers from both popular and obscure musicals and quilted them together into a cabaret. The songs, surprisingly, fit together, and recast through Mastro's eyes, deliver social messages about racism and feminism. Mastro, who directed the Colby students in performances tonight and Sunday, explains the multiple meanings of his cabaret's title.

Jonathan Mastro's musical, "Next! A Cabaret from the Front Lines," will be performed at Colby College's Strider Theater tonight and Saturday at 2 p.m.