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Tuesday, January 31, 2017

TICKETS NOW ON SALE FOR ENGAGING SHOW ABOUT HARRIET TUBMAN

WHERE: Crossroads Theatre, 7 Livingston Ave., New Brunswick
TICKETS: $25 - $55
BUY TICKETS NOW!

Crossroads marks Black History month with a daring story of famed abolitionist from a modern perspective set in the Harriet Tubman Retirement Home.

Come celebrate Black History Month with your family and friends and see this powerful re-telling of history, merging past and present along the Underground Railroad.

Crossroads is dedicated to creating and producing professional theatre of the highest standards of artistic excellence that Celebrates the culture, history, spirit and voices of the entire African Diaspora, presenting honest and positive portrayals of people of color from around the world, educating audiences by creating bridges of understanding between people of all cultural backgrounds in this society and the world.

Crossroads Theatre Company thanks its major supporters:

  • American ExpressJohnson & Johnson
  • Geraldine R. Dodge Foundation
  • Middlesex County Cultural & Heritage Commission
  • New Brunswick Cultural Commission
  • New Jersey Council on the Arts/ Department of State, a Partner Agency of the National Endowment for the Arts.

Monday, January 30, 2017

HOBOKEN’S MST PRESENTS FREE READINGS OF NJ WOMEN PLAYWRIGHTS

Mile Square Theatre presents the

MST PLAYGROUND READING SERIES

Mile Square Theatre, Hudson County’s leading professional theatre, launches the MST Playground Reading Series as part of a collaboration with Writers Theatre of NJ and its New Plays New Jersey concert reading series.

In February MST Playground Reading Series presents Readings of NJ Women Playwrights. The featured writers are Lia Romeo (February 4), Deb Margolin (February 12), and Kara Shelton (February 19).

Joseph Gallo, Mile Square Theatre’s playwright in residence says, “MST is committing time and energy now to nurture and develop playwrights as part of our mission. My latest play Long Gone Daddy was given a full development process, and then was produced as part of the company’s mainstage season in 2016. This year we are teaming up with John Pietrowski of Writers Theatre of NJ by hosting the New Plays New Jersey series. We plan to continue offering readings to our audiences and giving playwrights a platform for their work in development. We are also premiering Erin Mallon’s play The Net Will Appear in our Mainstage season in 2017. It’s exciting to see so much work being launched from our new space.”

MST Playground: Readings of NJ Women Playwrights Schedule:

Ghost Story
by Lia Romeo
WHEN: February 4 @ 8:30pm
WHERE: Mile Square Theatre • 1400 Clinton • Hoboken, NJ
ADMISSION: FREE

Lydia just wants a one-night stand, so she’s met a guy at a bar and brought him back to her new apartment.  But now things keep getting in the way.  Like the fact that they could hardly be more different – she’s forty, he’s twenty-eight; she’s black, he’s white; she’s a New Yorker and he’s from the Midwest. And the fact that he’s actually hoping for something more. And the fact that her new apartment might very well be haunted. A play about ghosts— both literal and metaphorical —and the ways we try to move forward.

What Difference Does It Make?
by Deb Margolin
WHEN: February 12 @ 6pm
WHERE:
Mile Square Theatre • 1400 Clinton • Hoboken, NJ
ADMISSION: FREE

Myrtle Schmidt is a top-notch attorney and pastry chef, solving cases on the phone while whipping up exotic confections in the Telephonocracy of Ding A Ling A Ling Land. Her long-suffering husband, Arnold, will do anything—anything—for just a moment of her precious time.  But Myrtle is so worried about being forgotten by the author who gives her life, she cannot pull away from her various pursuits, or her favorite Soap Opera—Marion’s Mistake, sponsored by KORO Feminine Deodorant-- until it may be too late.

The Prodigal
by Kara Shelton
WHEN: February 19 @ 6pm
WHERE:
Mile Square Theatre • 1400 Clinton • Hoboken, NJ
ADMISSION: FREE

Two brothers raised in the inner city, Glen and Walter, could not be further apart.  Glen, a carpenter, stayed close to his roots, never leaving the city, or the mindset that often comes along with it.  Walter, on the other hand, leaves home the moment he’s able, never looking back, and starts a new “white-washed” kind of life, complete with his new white wife Grace.  The only thing that could ever bring him back home is the death of his father.   When this happens, the collision of these two brothers and these two worlds, causes an impact that no one was prepared for.  Views are challenged on both sides, lives are altered, and everyone is permanently changed.

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For more information on Mile Square Theatre, please visit www.milesquaretheatre.org.

MST Season Sponsorship: Academy Bus, CSBK, Bijou Properties, The Burgiss Group, Halstead Properties, Hufnagel Landscaping, Ironstate, Jet.com, The Kocis Family, Little City Books, The Rockefeller Group

Mile Square Theatre is supported by the Geraldine R. Dodge Foundation.

This program is made possible in part by funds from the New Jersey Council on the Arts/Department of state, a partner agency of the National endowment for the arts and by funds from the national endowment for the arts, administered by the Hudson county office of cultural & heritage affairs, Thomas A. Degise, County Executive, and the Board of Chosen Freeholders.

Member of The New Jersey Theatre Alliance.

PLAYWRIGHT INFORMATION

Lia-Romeo

LIA ROMEO’s plays have been produced or developed at 59E59, Project Y, San Francisco Playhouse, the Lark, Abingdon Theatre, New Jersey Rep, Writers Theatre of New Jersey, Unicorn Theatre, HotCity Theatre, Orlando Shakes, Forward Flux Productions, Kitchen Dog Theatre, and elsewhere. She has been nominated for the ATCA/Steinberg Award for best new play, the NYIT Award for outstanding full-length play, and the L. Arnold Weissberger Award, and has been recognized by the Kilroys List (honorable mention), the O'Neill (finalist) and the Heideman Award (finalist). Her work is published by Playscripts and Smith & Kraus. She teaches in the graduate creative writing program at Fairleigh Dickinson University. BA: Princeton, MFA: Rutgers.

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DEB MARGOLIN is a playwright, actor and founding member of Split Britches Theater Company. She is the author of ten full-length solo performance pieces, which she has toured throughout the United States, and is the recipient of a 1999-2000 OBIE Award for Sustained Excellence of Performance. Deb’s play O Wholly Night and Other Jewish Solecisms, a solo piece investigating the recondite and sexy nature of waiting for the Messiah, was commissioned by the Jewish Museum of New York. PS122 presented Three Seconds in the Key, a meditation on illness, love, basketball and Yiddish, in a workshop production in NYC; the play was premiered under the auspices of New Georges at Baruch Performing Arts Center. Her play Imagining Madoff was nominated in 2012 for the Helen Hayes Award for Outstanding New Play in Washington, DC, and for the Eliot Norton Award for Outstanding Production for its New England debut at New Repertory Theater Company in Boston.

Shelton Kara PhotoKARA K. SHELTON (WRITER/DIRECTOR) is an actor, writer and director.  She is the director and one of the principal actors of the Abundant Harvest Drama Ministry of NJ. It is in this role that she uses her passion to reach out to the community, ministering through drama in detention centers, prisons, homeless shelters, and churches throughout the Northeast.  In addition to becoming a recipient of the 2015 Individual Artist Fellowship Grant for Playwrights from the NJ council on the Arts, she has also had her work featured at the 14th Annual Urban Media Makers Film Festival, and the “Take Ten!” ten-minute Play Festival.

HIT MUSICAL FOR THE ENTIRE FAMILY TO OPEN IN HOBOKEN

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You're a Good Man, Charlie Brown

You're a Good Man, Charlie Brown
Based on the comic strip Peanuts® by Charles M. SchulzBook, Music, and Lyrics by Clark Gesner
Additional Dialogue by Michael Mayer
Additional Music and Lyrics by Andrew Lippa
Directed by Mary Kate Burke

WHEN: February 3-26, Friday @ 7pm, Saturday @ 2pm and 6pm, Sunday at 11am and 3pm
WHERE:
Mile Square Theatre, 1400 Clinton Street (and 14th Street), Hoboken
TICKETS: $30, Student/Senior: $15
PURCHASE TICKETS ONLINE NOW Or call 201-683-7014 for reservations

Mile Square Theatre opens its 2017 season with a treat for the entire family, the hit musical You're a Good Man, Charlie Brown.

This comic musical includes the whole game from the beloved comic strip Peanuts: bossy Lucy is hopelessly in love with piano prodigy Schroeder who doesn’t give her the time of day, perfectionist Sally is still mocking blanket-toting Linus, Snoopy is in the doghouse, and “blockhead,” himself, Charlie Brown, is in rare form. Brief vignettes span the months from Valentine’s Day to Beethoven Day.

This professional production is sure to live up to Mile Square Theatre’s standard for Theatre for Young Audiences.

Recommended for audiences 5 and up.

For school show booking and information, please contact Erin: estehli@milesquaretheatre.org

Sunday, January 29, 2017

REVIEW: FAST-PACED, SPOOKY GOTHIC THRILLER THE PERFECT ANTIDOTE TO COLD WEATHER AND CHAOS

By Ruth Ross

Have You for Dessert

Well, this has been an interesting week. We learned that there are objective, verifiable facts, and then there are alternative facts. We have learned that some people live in a real world, while others reside in fantasy land. Sometimes, we may not be able to discern which is which. (Above L-R: Katrina Klein, Erin Farrah, Molly Garner, Jessica Sroczynski, Gloria Lamoureaux and Clark Carmichael

No, I am not talking about Donald Trump’s first week as President of the United States. This is the dilemma facing Police Inspector Ruffing in Don Nigro’s Gothic thriller, Ravenscroft, when he comes out, in the midst of a raging snow storm, to an isolated manse in rural England to investigate the headlong death plunge of Patrick Roarke, the estate’s footman—and, it seems, Lothario!

Part parody, part sleuth-style mystery, this Gothic thriller, now onstage in a charmingly twisted production at the Bickford Theatre, has been updated with a psychological slant. Despite the fact that there are enough red herrings for a fish hatchery and the final explanation is almost as complicated as the investigation, this rendition of Ravenscroft manages to retain the creepiness of a remote estate, the coincidence that Patrick is not the only male to meet his demise on the steps, Ruffing’s fixation on his dead wife and weirdness of the female characters—on an evocative set designed by Jim Bazewicz and eerily lit by Roman Klima. Eric Hafen’s sure directorial hand is evident as the action hums along inexorably to keep the audience’s attention from flagging, especially in the rather long second act.

Now LadiesWithout giving away too much, suffice it to say that Patrick has fallen to his death after being pushed away by the beautiful governess Marcy Kleiner in the midst of an altercation when she spurned his sexual advances. Inspector Ruffing, full of Victorian male preconceptions about woman, accuses Marcy of murder, only to have that supposition turned on its head by the alternatively clashing accounts of the accident by a dithering Mrs. Ravenscroft, her ditsy daughter Gillian, the hysterical maid Dolly and the stoic cook Mrs. French. While the solution is almost too complex to parse, we are left with the notion that the truth, indeed, is often fluid and based on perception. (Left: Gloria Lamoureaux, Clark Carmichael and Jessica Sroczynski)

Hafen has assembled a truly professional cast for this melodrama. Clark Carmichael is masterful as Inspector Ruffing, adrift in a sea of prevaricating women as he attempts to conduct a professional investigation. Officious, pompous in Act I, Carmichael becomes looser in the second act as he continuously imbibes brandy, stumbling and slurring his speech a bit while trying to maintain some dignity. As Mrs. Ravenscroft, Molly Garner deliciously conveys a character given to misunderstanding words and ideas (a la Richard Brinsley Sheridan’s Mrs. Malaprop); she’s alternately loopy and conniving. One wonders if her dippiness isn’t calculated. (Below: Clark Carmichael attempts to get the truth from Mrs. French and Mrs. Ravenscroft, played by Gloria Lamoureaux and Molly Garner, respectively.)

I Did

Erin Farrah’s Gillian is true child-woman, skipping around the room, giggling incessantly, yet smart enough to try to butter up Ruffing by asking personal questions. Maddeningly immature, she is still a force to be reckoned with as the women make Ruffing’s head spin. As Mrs. French, Gloria Lamoureaux is a stolid, stoic, sober servant, yet we sense by her guarded mien that she’s hiding something. And Jessica Sroczynski is terrific as Dolly, always on the verge of throwing up yet petrified of crossing her mistress or the detective.

Last but not least (and perhaps most important), Katrina Klein is superb as the intelligent, cool governess Marcy Kleiner. Although her Viennese accent unconvincingly wavers, Kleiner conveys the young woman’s steeliness and resolve, from the very first scene when she answers Ruffing’s questions with questions of her own, taking the reins of the investigation into her own hands. Despite his attempts to trip her up, she stubbornly sticks to her story, so that we really come to care about this foreign woman, accused by a powerful man of murder (without any facts) and forced to defend herself by her wits alone.

Hafen has staged the play in a novel way. When the characters are not involved in the action, they sit on stools at the back of the stage, so they are always there, even when they are not needed. The hanging, empty frames convey both the ancestry of the Ravencrofts as well as the emptiness of their existence in a remote area of England. Kaitlyn Frega’s costume selection (provided by Scaramouche Costumes) conveys the characters’ station as well as the late Victorian period; Dani Pietrowski’s props add to the impression. Stacks of books, a settee, an ornate desk transport us to the estate’s salon. And Andrew Elliott’s sound design adds to the play’s spookiness.

Fast-paced Ravenscroft is great fun, especially as the audience tries to figure out just what happened before Ruffing does—especially given his tipsiness as the investigation proceeds. If you enjoy whodunits and costume dramas with a twist of lime, Ravenscroft’s just the ticket on a cold winter night. The alternative facts and fantastical reality will not only make your head spin but give you a few laughs needed in these “interesting times.”

Ravenscroft will be performed at the Bickford Theatre in the Morris Museum, 6 Normandy Heights Ave., Morristown, through February 12. For information, performance times and tickets, call the box office at 973.971.3706 or visit www.morrismuseum.org online.

Friday, January 27, 2017

SIGN UP FOR COMEDY CLASS WITH ‘70s SITCOM LEGEND

Comedy Class With Richard Kline

WHEN: 4 Saturdays, March 4 - March 25; 3pm-5pm.
WHERE:
UCPAC'S Hamilton Stage, 360 Hamilton St., Rahway
TUITION: $200
Ages: 15+

We welcome this 70’s sitcom Legend. Best know for his role as Jack Tripper’s best friend (right), the warm hearted Larry Dallas in the classic series, ‘Three’s Company.’ Richard’s credentials extend much further, including Adam Sandler’s “I Now Pronounce You Chuck and Larry". He recently starred in our production of Seminar at Hamilton Stages.

The following topics will be covered:

  • General discussion of the demands of playing comic as opposed to dramatic material.
  • Interactive participation with exercises designed to reinforce the techniques employed in performing comedic material such as: "set up," "punch," "rhythm," and "timing."
  • Group scenes to experience "ensemble" acting
  • Assignment of short scenes taken from theater and television. Students are rehearsed by Mr. Kline and then their scenes are put on camera for review.

“PFX—THE PINK FLOYD EXPERIENCE ROCKS bergenPAC ON FEBRUARY 3

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PFX—THE PINK FLOYD EXPERIENCE

WHEN: FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 3, 2017 – 8PM
WHERE: Bergen Performing Arts Center located at 30 North Van Brunt Street in Englewood
TICKETS: $69-59-49-39-29
Purchase tickets at www.ticketmaster.com or by calling bergenPAC’s Box Office at 201.227.1030.

Without question, Pink Floyd remains one of the most influential rock bands of all time. PFX—The Pink Floyd Experience is described as a full on sensory assault celebrating the music, the themes, and the innovation that this great band brought to fans around the world. Touring for more than 10 years, this is the show for the ultimate Floyd Fan. For the first time, fans will have the rare opportunity to see the groundbreaking albums Animals and Dark Side of the Moon played in their entirety. The PFX - The Pink Floyd Experience is equipped with 6 outstanding musicians, interpretive videos, plane crashes, the flying pig, and bulb man– it’s all there, LIVE! 

Packed with a spectacular light show designed by world class lighting designers that have worked with some of the biggest artists out there, PFX fans keep coming back for more.  The icons that Pink Floyd made their own have all been incorporated into PFX—The Pink Floyd Experience.  From live visual and sound effects of plane crashes, helicopters, and cash registers in “Money,” fans are left wanting more.

Today, years since their last live performance, Pink Floyd’s appeal continues and spans the generations. Their shows were described as theatrical with mind-blowing lights and unsurpassed sound. You’ll have the chance to close your eyes and take it all in while hearing some of Pink Floyd’s greatest hits including such favorites as “Money,” “Wish You Were Here,” and “Comfortably Numb.”

MUSICE OF 2 SUPERSTARS & “INTO THE WOODS” COMING UP @ MAYO PAC IN MORRISTOWN

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WHEN: Friday, February 3, 2017 at 8 pm
WHERE:
Mayo PAC, 100 South Street, Morristown
TICKETS: $39 - 469
TICKETS CAN BE PURCHASED AT www.mayoarts.org | Box Office - (973) 539-8008

The Piano Men treat you to the excitement that only Billy Joel and Elton John in concert together can create! Broadway veterans Craig A. Meyer and Donnie Kehr perform the music of these two superstars, accompanied by amazingly talented backup singers and "The Rocket Band" of all-star musicians!

Into The Woods

CREATIVE TEAM
STEPHEN SONDHEIM
Music & Lyrics
JAMES LAPINE
Book
NOAH BRADY
Co-director
BEN STEINFELD
Co-director
LISA SHRIVER
Choreographer
DEREK MCLANE
Set Design
WHITNEY LOCHER
Costume Design
CHRISTOPHER AKERLIND
Lighting Design
DARRON L WEST
Sound Design
CHARLES COES
Sound Design
FRANK GALGANO & MATT CASTLE
Orchestrators
EVAN REES
Music Director
MARA ISAACS
Artistic Advisor
STEWART/WHITLEY
Casting
BROADWAY BOOKING OFFICE NYC
Tour Press, Marketing and Engagement Management
JACK STEPHENS
Company Manager
BRIAN L’ECUYER
Production Stage Manager
ORIN WOLF
Executive Producer
FIASCO THEATER
Producer
McCARTER THEATRE CENTER
Producer


CAST

ELEASHA GAMBLE
Baker's Wife
ANTHONY CHATMON II
Lucinda/Wolf/Cinderella's Prince
FRED ROSE
Mysterious Man
DARICK PEAD

Rapunzel’s Prince, Florinda, Milky White
BONNE KRAMER
Cinderella's Stepmother/Jack's Mother
LAURIE VELDHEER
Cinderella/Granny
VANESSA RESELAND
The Witch
PHILIPPE ARROYO

Jack/Steward
EVAN HARRINGTON

Baker
LISA HELMI JOHANSON
Little Red Riding-hood/Rapunzel
JOSHUA ARCHER
Ensemble
EVAN REES

Pianist
KATE MOORE

u/s Witch, u/s Baker’s Wife, u/s Cinderella
JAVIER IGNACIO

u/s Baker, u/s Mysterious Man
ALANNA SAUNDERS

Ensemble
SEAN PETER FORTE

Into The Woods

WHEN: Sunday, February 5, 2017 at 3 PM
WHERE: Mayo PAC, 100 South Street, Morristown
TICKETS: $89 – $49
TICKETS CAN BE PURCHASED AT www.mayoarts.org | Box Office - (973) 539-8008

Into the woods but don't delay! The acclaimed Fiasco Theater production of the James Lapine and Stephen Sondheim classic comes to Mayo Performing Arts Center.

Venture back Into the Woods with the Tony Award-winning musical classic by Stephen Sondheim and James Lapine that has been remounted like you've never seen it before! Including dazzling songs like "Children Will Listen" and "No One Is Alone," this thrillingly clever new version made Ben Brantley of The New York Times fall "head over heels." Mind the wolf, heed the witch and honor the giant in the sky in this extraordinary musical about the power of wishes and what really happens after they come true.

Thursday, January 26, 2017

THEATER LEAGUE OF CLIFTON PRESENTS 9TH ANNUAL DINNER THEATER PRODUCTION

Dealt a Deadly Hand: Murder at the Royale Casino
DIrected by Linda Wielkotz,
Produced by Mark Peterson
Stage Manager Tara Freifeld

WHEN: February 24 – March 5, Fridays & Saturdays 8 PM; Sundays 4 PM
WHERE
: Mario’s Restaurant, 710 Van Houten Ave., Clifton
TICKETS: Limited reserved seating $45* Includes 3 course dinner and the show.  Cash Bar available.
*plus $2.50 Per Ticket Credit Card fee
Tickets now available on our website www.theaterleagueofclifton.com  (select the TICKETS tab). Tickets may also be purchased by check, by mailing to Theater League of Clifton, PO Box 4072, Clifton NJ 07012. If purchasing by mail please include the performance date and an email or phone number.

**Tickets must be purchased in advance, they will not be sold at the door.**

Mystery dinner show spoofs the movie Casablanca and the American Dream of winning the jackpot. You'll meet crafty Native Americans, sneaky senior citizens, an Austrialian Croc Chaser, a two-faced lawyer, a kid with two left feet, a gambling casino owner with a Humphrey Bogart complex, and a gold digging ex-wife.Come join our cast for this evening of Murder AND Laughs.

Joe Berardi - Rick
Roberta Almeida - Lola
Danielle Petrucelli - Candy
Frank Favata - Chief Wooden Nickel
Irene Yalicki - Princess Wanna Wampum
Kenny Fowler - Croc Chaser
Mike Purdy - Dudley Wadsworth III
Jessica Steele - Carmella Portabella
Mary Claire Bongiovanni - Stella Portabella

ON POINTE THIS FRIDAY IN PRINCETON: “THE MUSIC OF PRIDE AND PREJUDICE”

This Friday's On Pointe:

The Music of Pride and Prejudice

WHEN: Friday, January 27, at 5:15 p.m.
WHERE:
American Repertory Ballet Princeton Studio, 301 N. Harrison Street, Princeton (Above McCaffrey's Supermarket)
ADMISSION: All On Pointe events are FREE and open to the public!

American Repertory Ballet's Artistic Director Douglas Martin will lead a discussion, accompanied by Princeton Symphony Orchestra Music Director Rossen Milanov, on the wonderfully melodic music of Ignaz Pleyel, the Austrian-born French composer.

Pleyel's work provides the backdrop for Martin's world premiere of Pride and Prejudice (April 21 and 22 at McCarter Theatre).

MULTI-CULTURAL DANCE COMPANY TO APPEAR @ KEAN UNIVERSITY THIS SATURDAY

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Kean Stage presents

Michael Mao Dance

WHEN: Saturday, January 28, 2017, 7:30 PM
WHERE:
Wilkins Theatre at Kean University, 1000 Morris Ave, Union, NJ
TICKETS: $20-40
Purchase HERE or call the Kean Stage Box Office at (908) 737-SHOW (7469)

Michael Mao Dance is an extraordinary multi-cultural company that celebrates the diversity in dance through a rich repertory that includes contemporary works drawing on world traditions.

Audience favorites include China Moves, a collaboration with prize winning Chinese composer Huang Ruo; Weaving, an athletic powerhouse of movement inspired by Japanese kodos drumming music; and Lorca Libré set to the songs by poet and playwright Federico Garcia Lorca.

Wednesday, January 25, 2017

SHERLOCK HOLMESIAN FARCE TO OPEN @ SOMERSET VALLEY PLAYERS THIS WEEKEND

WHEN: January 27 - February 12, Fridays & Saturdays at 8PM,
Sundays at 2PM
WHERE:
Somerset Valley Players, 689 Amwell Road, Hillsborough
TICKETS: Adults $20 - Seniors/Students $18
CLICK HERE TO PURCHASE TICKETS

It is December 1936 and Broadway star William Gillette, admired the world over for his leading role in the play Sherlock Holmes, has invited his fellow cast-members to his Connecticut castle for a weekend of revelry. But when one of the guests is stabbed to death, the festivities quickly turn dangerous. Then it's up to Gillette himself, as he assumes the persona of his beloved Holmes, to track down the killer before the next victim appears. The danger and hilarity are non-stop in this glittering whodunit.

The theatre is Air-Conditioned and Wheelchair Accessible.

SVP's production of "The Games Afoot or Holmes for the Holidays" is sponsored by the NJ Department of Children and Families.

OFFBEAT PRODUCTION BY TEEN ENSEMBLE OF “JAMES AND THE GIANT PEACH” IN BLOOMFIELD THIS WEEKEND

NiCori Studios and Productions will present The NiCori Teen Ensemble in

James and the Giant Peach
by Roald Dahl

WHEN: Friday, January 27, at 8:00 p.m., Saturday, January 28, at 2:00 p.m. and 8:00 p.m. and Sunday, January 29, at 2:00 p.m.
WHERE:
at the Westminster Arts Center at Bloomfield College, 449 Franklin St., Bloomfield
TICKETS: $15 for adults and $12 for students. 
For more information and for tickets, visit Nicori Studios and Productions' website.

The production is directed by NiCori co-founder Corinna Sowers Adler, musically directed by Deborah Martin, and features choreography by Lisa Grimes.

A delightfully offbeat adaptation of the classic Roald Dahl adventure, it tells the story of a boy named James who is sent by his aunts to chop down their old fruit tree and discovers a magic potion that launches a journey of enormous proportions. The classic adventure takes a completely new twist once they land on the Empire State Building.

A delightfully offbeat adaptation of the classic Roald Dahl adventure!

NiCori Winter Gala - James and the Giant Peach cast

NiCori's next production at Bloomfield College is a one-woman-show featuring actress Ami Brabson entitled "Phenomenal Woman" in honor of Black History Month. (Above: NiCori Winter Gala – James and the Giant Peach cast)

About NiCori Studios and Productions
NiCori Studios and Productions is a pre-professional theater training center based in Bloomfield dedicated to educating both amateur and seasoned performing artists. Offerings include voice lessons, musical theatre classes, acting workshops, songwriting workshops, dance classes, and technical theatre workshops. 

About Bloomfield College
A comprehensive, liberal arts institution located in Bloomfield, New Jersey serving 2,000 students with inspiring stories. Bloomfield College offers 60 academic programs, Division II athletics, and co-curricular clubs and organizations. The College is committed to enabling students, particularly those who have been historically excluded from higher education, to realize their intellectual and personal goals. More than half of the student body identify themselves as first-generation and are the first in their families to enroll in college. U.S. News & World Report recently ranked Bloomfield College the 14th most diverse National Liberal Arts College in the United States.

4TH WALL CELEBRATES BLACK HISTORY MONTH: 2 PERFORMANCES ONLY

Directed by Gwen Ricks-Spencer

WHEN: February 16 and 17 at 7:30 pm
WHERE:
Westminster Arts Center, 449 Franklin Street, Bloomfield, NJ
TICKETS: $15
Buy Now - All tickets only $15!

A celebration of womanhood

An American classic, this stirring “choreopoem” weaves together 20 separate poems with music, movement and narratives to tell the stories of love, empowerment, and struggle and loss in a complex representation of sisterhood. The cast consists of seven nameless African-American women only identified by the colors they are assigned. They are the lady in red, lady in orange, lady in yellow, lady in green, lady in blue, lady in brown, and lady in purple. Subjects from rape, abandonment, abortion, and domestic violence are tackled.

4th Wall’s “Off The Wall” production will not be fully produced with sets and costumes, and the performers will/can carry scripts. The characters will be fully drawn, and the storytelling will be the focus of the production.

NOTE: Mature subject matter; please use discretion when considering bringing children under 16. The show will be followed by a brief discussion for those who are interested.

 

CAST: (From top, left to right)
Lauren Pope Forbes, Mimi B. Francis, Samille Ganges, Dana P. Hawkins, Deirdra Hooker, Nicolette Lynch, Lynette Sheard

For more info, check out our website!

EVENING OF SHORT PLAYS & IMPROV CLASSES @ DREAMCATCHER REP IN SUMMIT

This evening, which will include readings of nine short plays followed by an open discussion with the audience and light refreshments, originated from a number of questions being asked by the artistic community in the last several months. Artistic Director Laura Ekstrand observed, "The inspiration for this project in part came from the response to the statement the "Hamilton" cast read from the stage. It raises the question of how we as a society view the theatre and the people who make it as participants in this society. I was also interested in discovering how the artists we know were processing and participating in the dialogue happening in our country surrounding the election."

The plays range from comedy to drama to musical, and each is unique. Participating playwrights include Michael Aquino and Dania Ramos (Mi Casa Tu Casa), Nadine Bernard (In the Shadow of My Son), Suzanne Bradbeer (Shakespeare in Vegas), Richard Dresser (Rounding Third), Steve Harper (American Crime), David Lee White (Blood: A Comedy), David Meyers (We Will Not Be Silent), and Lia Romeo (Connected). Twenty-five actors will read the plays before the audience is invited to join in the conversation.

To read more about the evening and the participating playwrights:
http://www.dreamcatcherrep.org/continuing-the-conversation

WHEN: Thursday, February 2, at 7:30 pm
Performance followed by discussion with the audience and light refreshments.

ALL TICKETS: $20

(Proceeds shared with Interweave www.Interweave.org)

Make your reservations here:
http://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/2774225

Not too late! Improv classes start Sat. Jan. 21st.

IMPROV COMEDY for Adults & Teens

WHEN: Winter Classes
(Open Level) - Saturdays, January 21 - February 25, 2016
11:00 am to 1:00 pm (six weeks)
 

WHEN: Spring Classes
(Open Level) - Saturdays, April 1 - May 6, 2016
11:00 am to 1:00 pm (six weeks)
 

WHERE: Oakes Center, 120 Moris Avenue, Summit, NJ, second floor
TUITION: $210 for six classes
Limited space available. Don't wait!

Read more...

http://www.dreamcatcherrep.org/#!classes-workshops/c1tuh

I believe that anyone can improvise—anyone! And if you're saying, "Nuh-uh, not me!" then I must respectfully disagree. Sorry to be so blunt, but I've witnessed it time and time again. ANYONE can improvise.   —Lulu French, Instructor

Instructor * Improv

Lulu French has been improvising for the past sixteen years. She started improv taking classes at Gotham City Improv and has appeared in numerous improv shows at Gotham including the long-running Off the Top of Our Heads. Lulu taught all levels of improvisation at Gotham for ten years and has directed several of Gotham's performance ensembles. Lulu also has taught improv to youths for Broadway Classrooms and CentreStage, and NYU drama students at Stonestreet Studios. In addition to her study at GCI she has also studied with the Upright Citizens Brigade including Amy Poehler (Parks and Recreation) and Matt Walsh (Players), and various other Chicago improv alumni including Todd Stashwick (Heroes).

WHERE: Dreamcatcher Repertory Theatre, Oakes Center  *  120 Morris Avenue  *  Summit, NJ 07901
TICKETS: 800-838-3006 | Info: 908-514-9654
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FUNNY, FAST-PACED WHODUNNIT OPENS @ BICKFORD THEATRE THIS WEEKEND

Ravenscroft
an English drawing room murder mystery and a comedy

WHEN: Thursday, January 26, and runs through Sunday, February 12. Thursday, January 26 and February 2, 7:30 pm; February 9, 2:00 pm (audio described performance); Friday, January 27, February 3 & 10, 8:00 pm; Saturday, January 28, February 4 & 11, 8:00 pm; Sunday, January 29, February 5 & 12, 2:00 pm
WHERE: Bickford Theatre, Morris Museum, 6 Normandy Heights Rd., Morristown
TICKETS: $45 for the General Public; $40 for Seniors; $38 for Museum Members; and $20 for Students (18 & under or with valid college ID). Group rates are available.
Tickets may be purchased online at morrismuseum.org, by phone at (973) 971-3706, or in person at the Bickford Theatre Box Office.

Critics have praised the Don Nigro play as “written at the three-way intersection of Monty Python, Agatha Christie and Downton Abby.” Directed by Bickford Theatre Producing Artistic Director Eric Hafen, Ravenscroft is a production of the Morris Museum and Drew University.

The puzzler begins simply enough. On a snowy night, Inspector Ruffing is called to a remote house to investigate the headlong plunge of Patrick Roarke down the main staircase. Five alluring and dangerous women hold all the cards and all the answers: Marcy, the beautiful Viennese governess; Mrs. Ravenscroft, the flirtatious lady of the manor; Gillian, her charming but possibly demented daughter; Mrs. French, the formidable and passionate cook, and Dolly, a terrified maid. Ghosts on the staircase and skeletons in the closet intensify this psychological comic thriller with a twist. The suspense and laughter build to an uproariously chaotic conclusion.

Leading the cast of English oddballs is Inspector Ruffing played by Clark Carmichael of Montclair who most recently appeared on Broadway in Jumpers. Molly Garner of Bloomfield plays the hilariously wacky Mrs. Ravenscroft, Katrina Klein of New York City takes the role of Marcy, and Gloria Lamoureux of Succasunna plays Mrs. French. The production includes Drew University students Erin Farrah of Fayetteville, Arkansas as the often confused daughter Gillian and Jessica Sroczynski of Bayonne as Dolly.
“Combined with the thrill of a mystery, the laughter of a comedy, and the theatricality of its unique staging, Ravenscroft will play out in your mind as it does in the mind of our Inspector Ruffing,” says Director Eric Hafen. “We are pleased to bring this always popular show to the Bickford Theatre.” (Above: L-R Molly Garner, Erin Farrah, Clark Carmichael, Katrina Klein, Gloria Lamoureux, Jessica Sroczynski. Photo by Annie Belkin)

Ravenscroft is a delightfully unreliable murder mystery that will keep you guessing to the end. Who pushed Patrick Roarke down the stairs? You can be sure of two things: It wasn’t Colonial Mustard with a Candlestick. And you’ll be glad you didn’t miss the fun!

The Morris Museum’s Bickford Theatre is located at 6 Normandy Heights Road in Morristown, NJ, and offers free parking and full accessibility. Box office hours for phone sales are Monday through Friday, 10:00am to 5:00pm. Walk-up hours are Tuesday through Friday, 11:00am to 5:00pm.

TRANSGRESSIVE “HAMLET” FOR CURRENT ERA OPENS IN JERSEY CITY THIS WEEKEND

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Shakespeare's
HAMLET

by Javier Antonio Gonzalez & David Skeist

WHEN: January 26 – 29; includes double Feature on the 28th*
WHERE:
Jersey City Theater Center, Merseles Studios, 339 Newark Avenue, Jersey City, NJ 07302
TICKETS: $32 each or two for $40. Students/Seniors: $15
(201) 795-5386
www.jctc.org.

It is bitter cold. Rank corruption festers at the center of power, indulging in excess while war looms on the horizon. Denmark is a prison, and for Hamlet there is no way out but through murder, suicide, or madness.  Don't miss this engaging adaptation of Shakespeare's Hamlet.

For its first show of the New Year, Jersey City Theater Center (JCTC) presents a subversive retelling of a classic play for contemporary audiences.

Caborca’s Hamlet is a multimedia and multicultural reimagining of Shakespeare timeless drama that will dispel any notions that the Tragedy of the Prince of Denmark belongs stuck in some forgotten High School English Class. As a new political era dawns in the United States and the world, this innovative and experimental theater company makes Hamlet’s themes of revenge, deception and political upheaval disturbingly relevant.

“At this politically disorienting moment, Hamlet’s world feels eerily close,” said Javier Antonio González, Artistic Director of Caborca.

González, a writer and director, started working with the actors and other artists who would eventually become Caborca in 2002 at the University of Puerto Rico. After completing Columbia’s MFA Theatre Program, Caborca (the name comes from The Savage Detectives, a novel by Roberto Bolaño) officially became a company in 2009. Since then, Caborca has produced work in New York, Puerto Rico, Los Angeles, and Massachusetts, receiving critical acclaim and a growing audience following.

“We are particularly proud of having made work over the years in less artistically saturated areas around the city—south Brooklyn, The Bronx—and we are thrilled to add Jersey City to that list,” said David Skeist, Actor and Producing Director of Caborca,

Hamlet is the first Caborca production in New Jersey.

The Hamlet collaboration with JCTC began with a 2016 meeting with Olga Levina, artistic director of JCTC and González. Both JCTC and Caborca share a mission of using progressive theater to tackle the issues of our times, and Caborca was soon part of JCTC’s Theatre Residency program and over the course of several months, developed a unique Hamlet that reflected the anxiety ridden atmosphere created by the outcome of the 2016 Presidential Election.

Shakespeare’s text is kept mostly intact, but Caborca’s production features out-of-sequence scenes and nontraditional casting – both Hamlet and his revenge-obsessed Ghost Dad are played by women! This Hamlet is a site-specific production, where the venue is nearly another character in the dark tale. Caborca has transformed the black box theater at Merseles Studios into a creepily surrealistic Elsinore Castle that enhances an immersive audience experience. For the overall design and staging, Caborca used as inspiration a 1975 European “classic” comic book adaptation of Hamlet by Gianni De Luca, the Italian fumetti maestro.

The end result suggests unmistakable parallels between current-day America and Hamlet’s Denmark, “Corruption festers at the center of power, indulging in excess while war looms on the horizon,” states the Caborca Production Notes. “Denmark is a prison, and for Hamlet there is no way out but through murder, suicide, or madness.”

“Audiences will be seeing Hamlet in a completely different format,” said Olga Levina. “With women’s rights suddenly threatened again, the fact a woman is cast as Hamlet is a powerful statement. With what is going on politically, there is a feeling of a dark cloud over us. What better play than Hamlet to express these feelings so many of us share now. Caborca is a theater company with a vision, one of maybe a handful of up-and-coming companies willing to take risks. They’ve made a Hamlet for the times we are living through now.”

*Hamlet performances:

  • (Thursday) January 26 (7:30pm)
  • (Friday) January 27 (7:30pm)
  • (Saturday) January 28 2pm* / 7:30pm
  • (Sunday) January 29 4pm*

*Talk-Back to follow performance

JCC WINTER FILM SERIES CELEBRATES ISRAELI FILM

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ASPIRE PAC TO PRESENT PILOT PRODUCTION OF “MARY POPPINS JR.” IN BLOOMFIELD

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WHEN: Friday, February 3, at 8:00pm and Saturday, February 4, at 3:00pm
WHERE:
Westminster Arts Center, located at 449 Franklin Street in Bloomfield, NJ.
TICKETS: $12 in advance and $15 at the door (cash/check only).
Advanced ticket sales: aspiremarypoppins.brownpapertickets.com
For more information or to purchase tickets, visit www.aspirepac.com or contact Aspire PAC at 201-220-4933 or aspirepac@gmail.com.
(Grades 2-8)

Aspire PAC has partnered with Music Theatre International (MTI) and iTheatrics and will be one of the first theatre companies to produce Mary Poppins Jr. prior to its official release. The pilot process allows MTI and iTheatrics to fine-tune the script, music, and materials before the rights become available to schools and theatres.

Based on Mary Poppins, the Tony Award-nominated Broadway musical that delighted audiences for more than 2,500 performances, Mary Poppins Jr. tells the story of everyone’s favorite nanny, who advises that “anything can happen if you let it.”

Randi Seffinger serves as Director of Mary Poppins Jr. Lisa Beth Vettoso, Aspire PAC’s Artistic Director, will act as Co-Director, Choreographer, and Producer of the project.

“We feel very lucky to be part of this pilot process in partnership with MTI and iTheatrics,” says Ms. Vettoso. “We have learned a great deal along the way, and it is exciting to know that our production will inform the ongoing development of Mary Poppins Jr."

Since 2011, Aspire Performing Arts Company has provided children and teens with opportunities to participate in theatrical productions, master classes, and Broadway trips, gaining a strong reputation along the way. For more information, you can find Aspire online at www.aspirepac.com as well as on Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram.

Mary Poppins Jr. is presented through special arrangement with Music Theatre International (MTI). All authorized performance materials are also supplied by MTI. www.MTISHOWS.com

4-FILM SERIES TO BEGIN FEBRUARY 5 @ SOPAC

SOPAC South Orange Performing Arts Center

New at SOPAC

La Cinémathèque Film Club:
An Homage To Alain Resnais & John Cassavetes

WHEN: 4-FILM SERIES BEGINS SUN, FEB 5, at 2PM
WHERE:
SOPAC, One SOPAC Way, South Orange (behind train station)
ADMISSION: Film Club Membership is $60 for 4 Film Screenings
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Box Office: (973) 313-2787

This Film Club series is an homage to two of the greatest creative spirits in cinema. The first, Alain Resnais, was a French film director whose career extended over more than six decades. His films frequently explore the relationship between consciousness, memory, and the imagination, and he was noted for devising innovative formal structures for his narratives. Throughout his career, he won many awards from international film festivals and academies.

The second director, American John Cassavetes, was also an actor and screenwriter. Cassavetes was a pioneer of American independent film, writing and directing over a dozen movies, which he partially self-financed, and pioneered the use of improvisation and a realistic cinéma vérité style.

FEB 5  |  Hiroshima My Love (1959)
Alain Resnais’ debut feature still feels like a work of striking originality. Set in the city of Hiroshima, the film tells the story of a brief affair between a French actress and a Japanese architect, both of whom are haunted by events that took place years before during the war.

APR 9 My American Uncle (1980)
In this film by Alain Resnais, Professor Henri Laborit uses the stories of three people to discuss behaviorist theories of survival, combat, rewards, punishment, and anxiety. René is a technical manager at a textile factory and must face the anxiety caused by corporate downsizing. Janine is a self-educated actress/stylist who learns that the wife of her lover is dying and must decide to let them reunite. Jean is a controversial career-climbing writer/politician at a crossroads in life. From 5–6PM on April 9, the two Alain Resnais films will be compared and the Film Club will discuss the creative process of the director and his message.

MAY 21  |  Faces (1968)
The John Cassavetes film entitled Faces confronts modern alienation and the battle of the sexes with a brutal honesty and compassion rarely matched in cinema.

JUN 25  | A Woman Under The Influence (1974)
This devastating drama by John Cassavetes details the emotional breakdown of a suburban housewife and her family’s struggle to save her from herself. This is one of the benchmark films of American independent cinema. From 5-6PM on June 25 the Film Club will compare the two films, the creative process of the director and his message.

Gerard Amsellem
Gerard Amsellem is a French and American citizen. He spent the first 25 years of his life in Paris, France where he studied painting at the University of Paris and earned his Masters Degree in French Literature and Art History. In 1982, Gerard moved to the U.S. and continued to paint and develop his interest in film. His paintings have been exhibited abroad in Paris and locally at GAS Gallery & Studio and at 1978 Maplewood Arts Center. Gerard has been studying film throughout his life. He currently teaches World Film at Livingston High School and has directed several short films. Gerard’s special interests lie in foreign and independent films from all over the world.

Questions about La Cinémathèque Film Club can be directed to Gerard Amsellem at linguavision@gmail.com

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THE HERB & MILLY IRIS GALLERY
Inside Looking Out
Dorothy Anderson Wasserman

Come and explore the interplay of artist Dorothy Anderson Wasserman's inner life and outer reality. This gallery exhibition will take you on a fascinating journey of surrealist visual narratives that will confront you, ask questions of you and have you wanting more. Her photographs are cut, rearranged then pieced together in layers of chaos and clarity. She tells a spellbinding story using images from the past, present and an imagined future. Contemporary surrealist collage in its finest form.

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Monday, January 23, 2017

VERISMO OPERA TO HOLD AUDITIONS FOR OPERA CHORUS

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AUDITION NOTICE:

The New Jersey Association of Verismo Opera, the house opera company of the Bergen Performing Arts Center (bergenPAC), invites singers to audition for the Verismo Opera Chorus. Artistic Director Lucine Amara announces professional, amateur, and retired male and female singers may auditionfor the Verismo Opera Chorus.

WHEN:  Wednesdays, January 25 and February 1, 8, 15, and 22 at 6:30 p.m. 
WHERE: 44 Armory Street in Englewood, New Jersey.
For all auditions, an appointment is required and must be made in advance. To schedule an audition appointment, call (201) 886-0561 or contact info@verismopera.org

Amara, who began her luminous operatic career with the San Francisco Opera Chorus and performed for over four decades with The Metropolitan Opera in 56 roles, encourages singers to audition for the Verismo Opera Chorus and develop their vocal tool kit. "Singers, start the New Year and expand your vocal experience, do something special and rewarding, and join the Verismo Opera Chorus. Performing with the chorus provides you with the opportunity to gain experience and develop a career by singing in other languages, appearing on a professional stage, and assuming the appearance of someone else. Members of the Verismo Opera Chorus make new friends, wear beautiful costumes, and perform beautiful music," she said.

This spring, the Verismo Opera Chorus will sing in Italian and perform live under the company's new Chorus Director, Michael Wittenburg, in Giuseppe Verdi's magnificent opera, Aida, on April 23, 2017. The production will be presented at 3 p.m. at bergenPAC, located at 30 North Van Brunt Street, in Englewood, New Jersey.

Preparation for the Verismo Opera includes instruction in the pronunciation of the text in Italian, vocal warm-ups, learning the music and detailed staging. The opera will be fully staged and performed with the cast in costume under the direction of Stage Director Evelyn La Quaif. A live orchestra will accompany this resplendent opera led by Principal Conductor and Music Director Lucy Arner. 

Audition Process

  • Male singers, representing all vocal ranges and ages, are especially needed.
  • Adult applicants should have a rudimentary working ability to read music and experience singing.
  • Teenagers, ages 17 to 19, may also audition for the Verismo Opera Chorus and must read music and have some prior vocal experience singing with a school, choir, or another performing group or organization.
  • Previous stage experience and foreign language study are desirable.
  • Applicants who have these skills and experiences will be given preference.

The audition consists of singing five note scales. During the audition process, each singer's range and vocal category will be determined. Applicants do not need to bring a song or music to the audition.

An application may be downloaded at www.verismopera.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/03/chorus.pdf. For information or to schedule an appointment to audition for the chorus, call (201) 886-0561 or contact info@verismopera.org.

Accessible Site
The audition site is handicapped accessible and designated handicapped parking is available in the adjacent lot. The New Jersey Association of Verismo Opera is committed to ensuring its programs and services are accessible. Vocalists requiring a special accommodation or with specific questions about the physical features of a facility where Verismo Opera performs may call (201) 886-0561 at least two weeks prior to the audition.

Funding
The season is made possible, in part, with funds provided by the New Jersey Council on the Arts/Department of State, through grant funds administered by the Bergen County Department of Parks, Division of Cultural and Historic Affairs. Other supporters include the Children’s Aid Foundation, Robert J. Campbell, MD, Cesare L. Santeramo, KSJ, Paul Weiss Matching Fund, The Gerda Lissner Foundation, Inc., and Vanguard Charitable Endowment Fund.

About New Jersey Association of Verismo Opera
For 28 years, the New Jersey Association of Verismo Opera has been an integral part of the region’s classical music culture. Led by Metropolitan Opera luminary Lucine Amara, Verismo Opera delivers a rich, grand opera experience for performers and viewers.

As the Bergen Performing Arts Center's house opera company, Verismo Opera provides performing opportunities for young musicians and artists through its semi-annual productions at the theatre and concerts held in community settings. Community members are invited to get involved as supernumeraries and volunteers.

An annual international vocal competition is conducted in November with finals generally drawing artists throughout the United States, Canada, and Europe. Verismo Opera also organizes opera workshops, master classes and concerts and offers affordable, highly professional productions.

For more information, visit Verismo Opera's web site, www.verismopera.org; follow the company on Facebook, or Twitter @NJVerismoOpera; or call (201) 886-0561.

IMAGE: : New Jersey Association of Verismo presents Giuseppe Verdi's Aida on April 23, 2017, at the Bergen Performing Arts Center. 

2 SHOWS FOR THE LADIES @ NJPAC

Nelly

Ladies Night With Nelly!
WHEN: Friday, January 27, at 8pm
WHERE:
NJPAC Prudential Hall, 1 Center St., Newark
TICKETS: $59 - $99
CODE: 20OFF
20% off all seats. Valid until 1/23 at 11pm.*

GRAMMY-winning rapper, singer and songwriter Nelly arrives with this one-of-a-kind concert experience—a genre-busting event that lends a symphonic twist to his greatest hits, including “Hot in Herre,” “Just a Dream” and “Country Grammar.”

Though his albums have sold more than 21 million copies in the U.S. alone, you’ve never before heard Nelly's music quite like this! When he debuted A Night of Symphonic Hip Hop last summer, backed by his six-piece band as well as the Columbus Symphony, music critic Lynn Green of The Columbus Dispatch wrote that the event was “a surprise winner.”

“Combining (hip hop and symphonic music) is a bold move,” she wrote. “But does it actually work? The answer is yes. Nelly's songs and delivery are so catchy, they hold their own against a stage full of musicians … (this fusion) definitely has the potential to draw these genres of music, and their audiences, closer together.”

Here is a look at one of Nelly's most popular songs! (Click here)

 

 

 

Michael Bolton

A Valentine’s Celebration with Michael Bolton with special guest Stephanie Mills
WHEN: Fri, Feb 17, at 8pm
WHERE:
NJPAC, 1 Center St., Newark
TICKETS: $59 - $119
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GRAMMY-winning pop-rock balladeer Michael Bolton shares the stage with R&B/soul singer Stephanie Mills.

PERFORMANCE OF “FROZEN” SING-ALONG COSTUME PARTY ADDED @ bergenPAC

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DISNEY’S FROZEN SING-ALONG COSTUME PARTY

WHEN: SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 12, 2017 – 1 PM & 4PM
WHERE:
Bergen Performing Arts Center located at 30 North Van Brunt Street in Englewood
TICKETS: $25-19-15
Purchase tickets at www.ticketmaster.com or by calling bergenPAC’s Box Office at 201.227.1030.

Sing along with the Disney movie Frozen and join Elsa and Anna who will lead the audience in the sing along movie. The show entails a full screening of the movie with lyrics on screen.

It’s the most popular comedy-adventure to hit the big screen this year and, with the fairydust of sing along added, you are guaranteed a great time. Come on an epic journey to find Anna’s sister Elsa, the Snow Queen and put an end to her icy spell.

Remember to dress up as your favorite character and be a snow queen, Sven the reindeer or Olaf, the coolest snowman ever and take pictures with Elsa and Anna!