Oswego Players’ director Richard Mosher and his cast are busy with rehearsals for the next to last show of the Players’ 75th season. It has been a great time with all the members working toward a common goal of continuing to bring quality community theatre to our very faithful audiences.
Brownville, Nebraska, is an amazing little town south of Omaha on the Missouri River with a population of 142 with four bookstores and seven museums. The town is an inspiration for all small towns worried about their future. At one time it was a thriving river town in the Nebraska Territory with a population of 7,000.
Nashville folk-americana songwriter Louise Mosrie will be performing at Oswego Music Hall on November 2. The doors open at 7:15 p.m. Performance will be at 8 p.m. Louise is a winner of numerous songwriting awards from folk festivals around the country such as Falcon Ridge Folk Festival in Hillsdale, NY, Kerrville Folk Festival in Kerrville, Texas and Telluride Bluegrass Festival in Telluride, Colo.
I was able to check another experience off my Bucket List. John and I recently enjoyed Mid-Lakes Navigation’s day tour on the Oswego Canal. When we traveled by car along routes 481, 57, and 49 I would catch glimpses of the Oswego Canal and wondered what the world looked like from the water. Mid-Lakes Navigation operates tours on the Oswego Canal twice a year – four opportunities to enjoy the Oswego Canal.
The staged recreation of the “panic broadcast” about an invasion from the planet Mars will run as a one night only event on October 30 – the 75th anniversary of the original CBS radio broadcast. Curtain time is 8 p.m. on the Jubilee Hall stage of Holy Trinity Church, 309 Buffalo St.
The fall Oswego Players’ production of “On Borrowed Time,” directed by Richard Mosher, will feature his father, Wayne Mosher Jr. in the lead role of “Gramps.” Lionel Barrymore originated the part on Broadway, even though wheelchair bound.
I love discovering unique aspects of a city. At the Remic Rapids in Ottawa there is one of the most incredible art displays I have ever seen. Each spring, John Felice Ceprano, using riverside stones, creates balanced sculptures that seem to defy gravity. Visitors are cautioned to avoid touching.
The sound of bluegrass instruments will join classically trained voices when the Artswego Performing Arts Series hosts “Classical Meets Bluegrass” with the Syracuse Vocal Ensemble at 3 p.m. October 20, in SUNY Oswego’s Sheldon Hall Ballroom. Known for their a capella prowess, the accomplished singers cross musical boundaries to perform a new work called “The World Beloved: A Bluegrass Mass.”
The Anthony Joseph Swingtet and Jazz vocalist Anna Vogel will be the first featured performers, Oct. 18 and 25, respectively, 6:30 – 9:30 p.m., as Under The Moon launches “Under The Moon: Where The Stars Come Out” live cabaret entertainment and dining.
The Oswego Players and director Richard Mosher have announced the cast for the November production, “On Borrowed Time,” written by Paul Osborne and based on a book by Lawrence Edward Watkin.
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