| Newark schools | | Posted Monday, March 12, 2007 3:06:14 PM by Blog57 Team | | Second-grade students will present "Seussical the Musical" for families and friends at 7 p.m. Thursday in the North gym. We also will read some student writing aloud that night and cook up some North Elementary School "Stone Soup!" Students will receive a copy of Dr. Seuss' "If I Ran the Zoo." Also on Thursday, Domino's Pizza will have a "Dough Raising Night" to benefit North Elementary. The class with the most pizzas ordered from Domino's that evening will be awarded a class pizza party. Congratulations to Mrs. Bartlett's second-grade class that won the party for February. .... | |
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| | | Glengarry 's Wopat Will Star in North Carolina Music Man | | Posted Saturday, October 07, 2006 7:06:07 AM by Blog57 Team | | Tom Wopat, the former TV star who has been a consistent New York stage presence since the Bernadette Peters revival of Annie Get Your Gun, has landed his latest theatrical role. The rugged actor will play Professor Harold Hill in the North Carolina Theatre's upcoming production of The Music Man. The Meredith Willson musical will be presented Nov. 4-12 in the Raleigh Memorial Auditorium at the Progress Energy Center for the Performing Arts. Wopat will star opposite the Marian of Jacquelyn Piro, who has been seen on Broadway in Miss Saigon and Les Misérables. The Music Man, according to press notes, "follows fast-talking traveling salesman Harold Hill, as he cons the people of River City, Iowa, into buying instruments and uniforms for a boys' band he vows to organize - despite the fact he doesn't know a trombone from a treble clef! His plans to skip town with the cash are foiled when he falls for Marian the librarian.... | |
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| | | The stars of ‘Tomorrow’ | | Posted Thursday, August 24, 2006 5:16:26 AM by Blog57 Team | | Children were invited to take part in a drama workshop around the musical Annie followed by a screening of the film, including its best known song Tomorrow.The event was run by UHArts at the University of Hertfordshire and Rare Productions Youth Theatre Group.The free day of events, which also included a barbecue and games, is part of the festival run by Welwyn Hatfield Consortium.Katy Craik, events assistant at the Hatfield-based university, said: "I think the children who joined us certainly used up lots of energy."She added: "They really threw themselves into the workshop and there were some real bright sparks."Rare theatre company will stage their own performance of Annie at the university's Weston Auditorium next February.Auditions run on November 26 from 1pm until 5pm in the Prince Edward Hall on the College Lane campus.Ring 01438 224697 for more information.... | |
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| | | River Days to be a 'Storeyed' affair | | Posted Saturday, August 19, 2006 11:05:23 AM by Blog57 Team | | The ninth annual Basalt River Days returns Friday and Saturday with a new location and a musical lineup that features the return of Nina Storey. The annual festival moves to Lions Park in downtown Basalt, bringing activities and a host of free musical acts, headlined by Boulder singer/songwriter Storey, who packed the park at the very first River Days eight years ago with her blend of blues, pop, funk and rock. She performs at 1 p.m. Saturday in Lions Park. River Days opens at the Riverwalk Patio Stage on Friday at 4 p.m. with Basalt Battle of the Bands winning trio Lynx. Annie Schwener and Nicco De Plata follow with an acoustic guitar set. Doc Eason and his Merry Magicians take the stage at 5 p.m. Then, its over to Lions Park for the Old-Time Celtic Megaband, featuring contra dance caller Andrea Early.... | |
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| | | Today in Theatre History: JULY 15 | | Posted Saturday, July 15, 2006 1:03:56 PM by Blog57 Team | | 1905 Birthday of lyricist and librettist Dorothy Fields (1905-1974), daughter of vaudeville star Lew Fields of Weber & Fields. Among her numerous credits over six decades from the 1920s to the 1970s: Blackbirds of 1928, Let's Face It! (book), Annie Get Your Gun (book), Redhead (book and lyrics), Sweet Charity (lyrics) and Seesaw (lyrics). She was nominated for three Tony Awards and won one, for her work on Redhead. 1937 Though it has been moribund for several years, Vaudeville is officially declared dead today, as Variety merges its "vaudeville" and "nite clubs" sections for the first time ever. The entertainment newspaper explains that "the vaudeville department has lately been particularly difficult to fill up." 1949 Irving Berlin tries to recreate the success of Annie Get Your Gun by reassembling the creative team for this musical about the sculptor who created the Statue of Liberty.... | |
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| | | 'Anything Goes' to open at Performing Arts Center | | Posted Tuesday, July 11, 2006 7:06:23 AM by Blog57 Team | | The classic musical "Anything Goes" will soon sail downtown to the Performing Arts Center and showcase the shenanigans that take place aboard a transatlantic liner on its way from New York to London. "Anything Goes," a romantic comedy by Cole Porter, will be directed by Richard Folmer, executive director of the Bossier Arts Council and artistic director of Bossier City's East Bank Theatre. Folmer has been affiliated with Performing Arts Center's summer musicals for almost 20 years. He said he was the first assistant stage manager in a 10-week tour of "Anything Goes" starring legendary performers Sid Caesar and Ginger Rogers more than 25 years ago. .... | |
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