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Fulton Community Theatre to hold auditions for Fall 2013 shows

Fulton Community Theatre will hold open auditions for its October and November productions of “The Mercury Theatre’s War of the Worlds and Dracula” and Bettine Manktelow’s comic murder mystery “Curtain Up On Murder.” The joint auditions will be held on July 22 and 23 from 6 to 9 p.m. at Holy Trinity Church, 309 Buffalo St.

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Fulton Community Theatre’s Golden Age of Broadway Returns This Weekend

Members of the Fulton Community Theatre perform “Give My Regards to Broadway” during last weekend's debut of the group’s latest production in the Evening On Broadway Series, “The Golden Age of Broadway, the Music of Porter, Kern, Gershwin, Cohan, Berlin and Rodgers & Hart.” From left are: Beth DeRousie, Stephanie McCall, Marsha Preston, Liam Fitzpatrick, Zoë Bolio, and Don Crowe.The Fulton Community Theatre’s latest production in its Evening on Broadway series, “The Golden Age of Broadway, the Music of Porter, Kern, Gershwin, Cohan, Berlin and Rodgers & Hart” returns this weekend with performances scheduled for Friday, Saturday and Sunday in Jubilee Hall at Holy Trinity Parish, 309 Buffalo St.

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Sandra Scott Travels: The Enchanted Mountains Is Worth The Trip

desserts stole the show.Returning from Ohio we decided to take Route 86 East instead of our usual way along the NYS Thruway to Buffalo and then east. The Route 86 exit is near the New York Pennsylvania border. The area in the southwest corner of New York State is called “The Enchanted Mountains.” It is a beautiful drive with rolling hills, farms and forests and scenic stops.

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ADK Summer Playhouse Presents Cabaret on Gore Mountain

The Adirondack Summer Playhouse puts a unique twist on the musical “Cabaret” in three performances this summer on Gore Mountain.  The production, which runs July 11-13, takes place in a modern “Spiegeltent,” an Austrian mirrored circus tent, offering classic German beer and goodies such as knödel, bratwurst, sauerkraut, sausages and pretzels.

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Sandra Scott Travels: A Haunting Journey Through New York

The Rolling Hills Asylum The Rolling Hills Asylum is located in East Bethany, south of Batavia in Genesee County. The sprawling red brick building was built in 1827 as The Genesee County Poor Farm and in the 1950s it was a county home and infirmary. For a short time it was an antique mall. Over the years people reported strange occurrences of the paranormal kind.

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Oswego Players Present ‘Mame’ Next Month

Peter Mahan and Moe Harrington play a scene from the musical “Mame.” Picture Credit: Tobie McIntosh

“You coax the blues right out of the horn … you charm the husk right off of the corn….” Ah, the strains of one of Broadway’s most loved musicals, “Mame,” will be flowing through the Frances Marion Brown theatre, beginning July 5 for a two-weekend run. Stage director Inez Manor Parker and music director Abel Searor are deep in rehearsals with their stellar cast of this marvelous piece of nostalgia for the pleasure of local audiences.

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Fulton Community Theater to present The Golden Age of Broadway

The familiar sounds of some of the greatest songs of all time will fill the air, as the Fulton Community Theater takes to the stage with its latest production in the popular Evening on Broadway series, “The Golden Age of Broadway:  The Music of Porter, Kern, Gershwin, Cohan, Berlin and Rodgers & Hart”

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Sandra Scott Travels: O, Say Can You See? A Salute To Flags

Fort StanwixWe learn in school that Betsy Ross designed the American flag. But did she really? Legend has it that she made the first flag but there is no documented evidence that says she did which is always dilemma for historians. However, there are several factors that made it likely that Betsy did indeed create the first American flag.

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Fulton Community Theater presents Broadway’s Golden Age of music

The familiar sounds of some of the greatest songs of all time will fill the air as the Fulton Community Theatre takes to the stage with its latest production in the popular “An Evening on Broadway” series, “The Golden Age of Broadway:  The Music of Porter, Kern, Gershwin, Cohan, Berlin and Rodgers & Hart.” Under the direction of Kathy DeGolyer “The Golden Age of Broadway” will be performed June 21, 22, 23 and June 28, 29, 30 in Jubilee Hall at Holy Trinity Parish, 309 Buffalo St.

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