Arts and Entertainment

A SUNY Oswego alumnus will return to the stage of the Funny Bone Comedy Club at Destiny USA when he appears there for the third time Nov. 30. John Wolfson will bring The Magical John Show to the FunnyBone Nov. 30 for a family matinee that includes magic and comedy for all ages, the only exception to the Funny Bone’s 21 and over policy.

The second weekend of the Oswego Players latest show, “On Borrowed Time,” directed by Richard Mosher will begin November 22 at 8 p.m. There will be two other chances to catch this production – November 23 at 8 p.m. and November 24 at a 2 p.m. matinee.

CNY Arts Center announces the debut of two youth productions onstage November 22 and 23 with Drama Club and Kids Onstage. Both groups have been meeting weekly since mid-September and will present to parents, family and friends in separate performances. Both presentations are pay-what-you-can performances open to the public in lieu of tickets and take place at 357 State St., in Fulton (use the Park Street entrance).

The villains in the thriller “Wait Until Dark,” SUNY Oswego’s fall student honors production, conspire to seize a drug-filled toy from a Greenwich Village apartment. The 1966 Frederick Knott play in Tyler Hall’s lab theatre will preview at 7:30 p.m. Nov. 19, and run at 7:30 p.m. Nov. 20 to 23, with a finale at 2 p.m. Nov. 24.

“Lizzie Borden Took an Axe” will be presented at the Robinson-Faust Theatre for the Performing Arts at Oswego High School on Friday and Saturday at 7:30 p.m. Tickets are $10 at the door. Please contact the box office at 341-2270 with any questions.

SUNY Oswego pianist and music faculty member Robert Auler will perform at 3 p.m. Nov. 24, in the Sheldon Hall ballroom, playing a repertoire that will include a work by 2007 alumnus and classical composer George N. “Nick” Gianopoulos. Gianopoulos was an 18-year-old freshman from Baldwinsville when he took an introductory music course and his first-ever piano lessons at SUNY Oswego.

SUNY Oswego’s student honors production of “Wait Until Dark,” playing Nov. 19 to 24 in Tyler Hall’s lab theatre, will put the audience right on top of the thriller, and that’s fine with director and senior theatre major Dana Ernest.
“One thing about this play that’s so great is that it’s such heightened realism,” Ernest said. “That’s really what we’re going for … But the audience is so close, we can’t get away with anything — it has to be real.”