| Holidays are coming
Paper Mill Playhouse segues from "Happy Days" to holidays this week as the state's largest resident theater presents "Meet Me in St. Louis." Based on the classic MGM musical, this stage treatment features memorable songs from the original, including the show-stopping holiday standard "Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas." "Meet Me in St. Louis," however, is more of a traditional Broadway musical than a holiday show. The story begins in turn-of-the-century St. Louis. The World's Fair is about to begin, signaling big changes for the happy and affluent Smith family. Older sisters Rose and Esther are dreaming of their handsome boyfriends, while younger sisters Agnes and Tootie are getting into mischief. But the mood changes when their father announces the family is moving to New York.
Fake doo-woppers please crowd, but not like originals
You can tell you are getting older when people start trying to sell your youth back to you. Most folks are aware when this happens, and buy anyway.
And sometimes what they're selling is not exactly what they say it is.
But, as was the case with a doo-wop concert here Saturday night, audiences seem to like it anyway.
Groups calling themselves Cornell Gunter's Coasters, The Marvellettes and The Platters played to an almost full house at the Strand-Capital Performing Arts Center.
Baby boomers and even pre-baby boomers — among them a busload from a local retirement community and a gaggle of Red Hats — were entertained by passable versions of the '50s and '60s hits they grew up with.
They reminisced, they swayed, gave standing ovations, even danced in the aisles a little.
Thanksgiving performances canceled
NEW YORK (AP) _ Broadway faces a gloomy Thanksgiving after the collapse of talks between stagehands and theater producers with more than two dozen shows now canceled through the end of the lucrative holiday week.
Negotiations broke down Sunday after a weekend of marathon meetings between Local 1 and the League of American Theatres and Producers.
"We are profoundly disappointed to have to tell you that talks broke off tonight, and that no further negotiations are scheduled," Charlotte St. Martin, the league's executive director, said in a statement.
"Out of respect for our public and our loyal theatergoers, many of whom are traveling from around the world, we regret that we must cancel performances through Sunday Nov.
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The last day for registration for the 2008 Kensico Little League season will be held from 9 a.m. to noon Nov. 17 at the Mount Pleasant Community Center, 125 Lozza Drive. For more information, visit kensicolittleleague.org. Submitted by Kensico Little League Annual choral festival a Jenna's Dream benefit
Jenna's Dream will present the sixth annual Jenna's Dream Westchester Choral Festival, at 7:30 p.m. Dec. 8 at Valhalla High School, 300 Columbus Ave. The festival will feature performances by select groups of youth choirs and adult vocal ensembles from Westchester County and Broadway veteran Craig Schulman. Jenna's Dream is named for Schulman's late daughter. A Yorktown resident, Schulman has starred in "Jekyll & Hyde," "The Phantom of the Opera" and "Les Mis�rables." Proceeds from the event will benefit the Jenna's Dream scholarship program, which provides opportunities for at-risk children to attend summer theater camps and for high school seniors to continue their education in the performing arts.
Broadway's Sir Lancelot dies
LOS ANGELES -- Robert Goulet, the strikingly handsome singer with the rich baritone who soared to stardom on the Broadway stage in 1960 playing Lancelot in the original production of "Camelot," died Tuesday morning. He was 73. Goulet, who recently had been diagnosed with interstitial pulmonary fibrosis, was awaiting a lung transplant when he died at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles, according to Norm Johnson, a spokesman for the singer. Goulet's wife of 25 years, Vera, and his sons, Christopher and Michael, were with him at the time of his death. .
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