Arts and Entertainment

Bobby Fontana, started out in March directing Clarence Day Jr.’s classic comedy, “Life with Father.” Knate Roy, originally cast as the father, had to bow out. Fontana made an attempt to replace him, however, with opening night looming, it became necessary for him to play the role himself.

The SUNY Oswego music and theatre departments will present the hits of a legendary Broadway songwriting team in “The Music of Rodgers and Hammerstein” at 8 p.m. May 4 and 5, and 2 p.m. May 6, in Tyler Hall’s Waterman Theatre.

The program will include the overture to “The Magic Flute” by Mozart, Beethoven’s Symphony No.1, Schubert’s “Unfinished” Symphony and Smetana’s “Ma Vlast, The Moldau.”

Renaissance Italy will come alive as the SUNY Oswego theatre department presents Shakespeare’s “Much Ado About Nothing,” previewing at 8 p.m. April 19 and opening at 8 p.m. April 20 in Tyler Hall’s Waterman Theatre.

Rufus Reid, whom SUNY Oswego faculty member Eric Schmitz calls “one of the finest bassists in the world,” will join Schmitz and the Oswego Jazz Project in concert April 18 in Sheldon Hall ballroom.

CNY Arts Center is staging a reunion of veteran actors Krissy Cook, Beth DeRousie, Bobby Fontana and Dan Williams for a performance of John, His Story  at State Street United Methodist Church, Fulton.