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A Midsummer Night’s Dream Comes To Fulton
Shakespeare’s Midsummer Night’s Dream delivers an arranged marriage, a play within a play, fairyland, magic potions and general mayhem in one of his most beloved comedies.
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Sandra Scott Travels
Sandra Scott Travels: The Big Apple’s Real Big Organ
When I was 10, on my first trip to NYC, my parents took me to Radio City Music Hall. I was brought to tears when the organs came out the side walls and the orchestra rose up from the floor. To me it was magical. Radio City’s two Wurlitzer Organs are the only two of its kind in the world. Interestingly, the organ players crawl through a tiny door to get to their stools without being noticed.
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Sandra Scott Travels: Saddle Up For The ‘Run for the Roses’
The most exciting Kentucky Derby for those of us who live in Upstate New York was in 2003 when Funny Cide from Sackets Harbor “Ran for the Roses.” He was the first New York bred horse to win the Derby. After Funny Cide won the Kentucky Derby the excitement continued when he went on to win the Preakness Stakes. Excitement reached a fever pitch when Funny Cide ran in the Belmont Stakes. A win at Belmont would mean Funny Cide would earn the coveted Triple Crown.
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Producing A New Production Of An Old Classic
How does one take an old classic melodrama and mount a new production that is true to the original? That was the question I asked myself when I began the quest to director Lottie Blair Parker’s play, “Way Down East.” First, I had to find a script.
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Sandra Scott Travels: Discovering A New Hot-Spot Beach
When I see the many articles listing the “Top Ten Beaches” it seemed to me that sooner later every great beach would make the list. So, I knew Ngapali Beach in Myanmar would be discovered. It finally made CNN’s list of “Best Beaches” in February 2016. John and I have been to Ngapali Beach nine times, staying each year at Amazing Resort. Ngapali Beach is truly a wonderful beach on the Bay of Bengal.
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Oswego Faculty Member’s New Chamber CD Represents Family Album
A new CD features the music of a family of composers: SUNY Oswego music faculty member Eric Schmitz, his father and his brother. Ravello Records recently published “ACE Composers: 21st Century Chamber Music by Alan, Christopher & Eric Schmitz,” a collection linked by both bloodline and connections to popular genres.
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‘Way Down East’ Most Popular Play of Its Time
What made the play “Way Down East” so popular? Advertisements of the day boasted that it had been seen by five million people over 350 weeks of performances and taking in more than $3 million. Such a claim was backed up by the reality that it was one of the most successful plays of its day, running for 152 performances in New York City with its initial opening on Feb. 7, 1898, at the Manhattan Theater.
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‘Space Pirates’ Prepare To Board SUNY Oswego Stage
The SUNY Oswego theater and music departments’ spring musical “Space Pirates of Planet Penzance” will open at 7:30 p.m. Friday [April 22] in Hewitt ballroom, featuring the talents of such actors as Caren Celine Morris, who plays the communication officer in the futuristic adaptation of the Gilbert and Sullivan comic opera “Pirates of Penzance.”
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Cast Prepares Play For May Premiere
Director Rick Sivers has been busy rehearsing the cast of the upcoming Oswego Players’ production of Oswegonian Lottie Blair Parker’s “Way Down East.” The cast, composed of both seasoned veterans of the stage in the Frances Marion Brown Theater and newcomers has been hard at work bringing the characters of the 1898 comedy melodrama to life.
Sandra Scott Travels
Sandra Scott Travels: The Golden Land and Beyond
John and I are not fond of tour groups but a cruise accomplishes the same thing better without changing hotels. We flew Air Asia from Bangkok to Mandalay and stayed at the Amazing Hotel Mandalay. The Pandaw people picked us up at the hotel and transported us to the Pandaw Kindat. We chose a Pandaw cruise because the ships are built by the same company, the Irrawaddy Flotilla Company, which had hundreds of ships that plied the river during their British colonial days when their fleet numbered in the hundreds.