Life is a cabaret, old chum, and the cabaret is coming to Ogdensburg, tonight!
For one Night only, the Fabulous OCP – that is Ogdensburg Command Performance---is bringing Sally Bowels and her-live-for-the-moment philosophy (a bit of denial) to the OFA auditorium.
Cabaret is my favorite musical.Okay, yes it is a bit dark, but it is also a lot of fun, and full of irony. As a matter of fact, Kander and Ebb, (who also wrote the music and lyrics for Chicago) are the masters of ironic lyrics. I saw the late nineties revival of this show which was a great collaboration between Oscar winning director Sam Mendes and Chicago (film) director Rob Marshall.It was one of the greatest shows ever.It still haunts me.
I hear there are still tickets available, curtain time is 7:45PM TONIGHT – Wednesday, January 20th call 393-2625 for tickets and check out OCP’s website.
Show is at 1100 State Street – at the high school auditorium.
Tomorrow night – January 21st is opening night for the latest Little Theatre comedy –
Rumors by Neil Simon (the most successful playwright since Shakespeare)
Dinner: 7:00 pm. Show 8:00 p.m. (Except Sunday Jan 31 – Dinner at 1:30 pm)
Choice of Pork, Chicken, or Fish by Chef David Boucher
$30 Includes dinner, tax, tip, and show
Reservations only for Dinner Theater: 782-2347
NEW ~ All dinner shows will be open to General Admission15 minutes before show-time! - $10 adult, $5 students
Stage Shows only
Sunday, Jan 24 at 1:30 p.m. and Thursday Jan 28 at 7:30 p.m. no dinner theater or reservations -general admission only $10 adult, $5 students
Thursday, January 21 all proceeds go to Volunteer Center of Jefferson County
Starring:
Jessica Abel, Dan Allington, Bill Bowman, Peter Hovey, Sarah Jane Hovey, David Murphy, Judy Norris, Barry Pratt, Elizabeth Smith, Debbie Vanderpool
Also, tonight is the second and last night for auditions for The Lyric Theater’s next production, Man of La Mancha!
Okay since I am on a roll about the boards I want to mention two other shows coming up this weekend.
Also, locally an old favorite comes back to town!
"Forever Plaid"
Presented
Friday, Jan. 22nd and Saturday, Jan. 23rd
Dinner at 5:30 – Show at 7 PM
And
Sunday, Jan. 24th
Brunch at Noon - 2 PM Matinee
Best Western Carriage House Inn
300 Washington St.Watertown, NY
Call (315) 782-8000 for Reservations
Dinner & Show $30.00
Brunch & Matinee $25.00
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This show is back by demand and is our 3rd run of this very popular production.
Forever Plaid is an affectionate revue of the close-harmony “guy groups” (e.g. The Four Aces, The Four Freshmen) that reached the height of their popularity during the 1950s. This quartet of high-school chums’ earnest dreams of recording an album ended in death in a collision with a bus filled with Catholic schoolgirls on their way to see the Beatles’ American debut on The Ed Sullivan Show. The play begins with the Plaids returning from the afterlife for one final chance at musical glory. Songs from the show include: “Three Coins in a Fountain,” “Crazy ‘Bout Ya, Baby,” “Sixteen Tons,” “Chain Gang,” “Heart and Soul,” “Lady of Spain,” and “Love is a Many-Splendored Thing.”
CAST:
Kevin Kitto – “Jinx”,
Steve Petrillose – “Frankie”,
Dan Davis – “Sparky”
Jim Goodenbery - Smudge”
Presented through special arrangement with Music Theatre International (MTI)
For more information, please contact me as listed below
If you are in Syracuse and you might be, because it is supposed to fairly warm, and dare I say, sunny – then check out this unique theatrical experience.
ARMORY SQUARE PLAYHOUSE PRESENTS A PRODUCTION OF "PERFORMING THERAPY" WRITTEN BY CAMILLA SCHADE AND KIRA LALLAS, JANUARY 24 @1:00 AT JAZZ CENTRAL
What: Armory Square Playhouse presents "Performing Therapy", a solo piece featuring actress/playwright Camilla Schade who co-wrote the play with Kira Lallas.
Where: Jazz Central located at 441 E. Washington St.
When: Sunday, January 24, at 1 p.m.
Admission: $7 and $5 for students and seniors
THE DETAILS:
On Sunday, January 24 at 1:00 at Jazz Central, Armory Square Playhouse "Performing Therapy", a featuring actress/playwright Camilla Schade who co-wrote the piece with Kira Lallas. PERFORMING THERAPY is a one-woman, group-therapy comedy about depression. It’s a wacky romp through depression, loss, displacement, dementia, and the surprise healing nature of SchuylerCounty.
THE PLAY:
A ‘depressively experienced’ actress turned therapist, played by Camilla Schade, leads group therapy in an attempt to provide helpful advice and therapeutic modalities in PERFORMING THERAPY. Art Therapy with Balloon Animals, Affirmations on Post-it Notes and Primal Humming are some of the hopeful remedies. But in her attempt to proffer relief, she gets wildly off-track relating her own poignant story of life after loss in SchuylerCounty. PERFORMING THERAPY confronts the value of memory through an engaging recognition of the art of letting go.
PLAYWRIGHT BIOS Camilla Schade, an actor/director/teacher/playwright, has performed for Ithaca’s Hangar Theatre and was last seen on the Kitchen Theatre stage in OLD TIMES. Her acting and improvisation classes and workshops for all ages can be found at 171 Cedar Arts Center in Corning, through the Family Service Society and Pathways in Corning, Ithaca Youth Bureau, and as a Teaching Artist for the Hangar Theatre.
Kira Lallas, now a Hospice and Community Bereavement Counselor for Hospicare of Ithaca, grew up in Ithaca theatres and co-founded the Orange Tree Theatre Company. While at BostonUniversity she focused on solo autobiographical writing and performance. She toured her award-winning, one-woman show, TRANSLATIONS OF XHOSA, about her time spent in South Africa, until she lived as a resident at Wisdom’s GoldenrodCenter for Philosophic Study in Hector.
The creation of PERFORMING THERAPY was made possible, in part, with public funds from the New York State Council on the Arts’ Decentralization Program administered locally by The ARTS of the Southern Finger Lakes.
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