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Researcher and Author, Scott Weidensaul returns for Special Audubon Presentation
Written By Editor on 10/5/21 | 10/5/21
Word Thursdays Online featuring featuring Jay Rogoff and JoEllen Kwiatek
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Tony Award Winner and Grammy Nominee, Lena Hall, Performs in Virtual Program Recorded at Fenimore Art Museum
Fenimore Art Museum will premiere a rare behind-the-scenes look at "Radiant Baby," the acclaimed off-Broadway musical about the life and work of Keith Haring, to celebrate the final days of the museum’s popular exhibition Keith Haring: Radiant Vision. The event will be streamed on Friday, October 8 at 7:00 P.M. and will be freely accessible on both Facebook and YouTube. It will feature three musical performances by Lena Hall (Tony-winner, Grammy nominee, and original cast) and Debra Barsha (Composer/co-Lyricist), and will also include a discussion about the show's history and creative process featuring Stuart Ross (Book/Co-Lyricist) and Stephen Brackett (Director). The group will also discuss their personal connection with Keith Haring, how they became attached to the project, and how the musical speaks to Haring’s artwork. The entire program was recorded on October 3 in the exhibition gallery at Fenimore. Bios of all participating artists are attached below.
The exhibition Keith Haring: Radiant Vision is on view at Fenimore through October 11.
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BIOs:
Lena Hall:
LENA HALL is a Tony Award winner and Grammy nominee who received widespread critical acclaim for her performance of the title role in the feature film Becks, (winner of the U.S. Fiction Award at the L.A. Film Festival) available nationwide. She stars as Miss Audrey in TNT and Netflix’s hit sci-fi drama Snowpiercer. Following her Tony-winning Broadway run in Hedwig and the Angry Inch, Lena toured North America with Josh Groban on his “Stages” tour, and portrayed the dual starring roles of both Hedwig and Yitzhak in Hedwig and the Angry Inch in Los Angeles and San Francisco. She originated the role of Nicola in the Tony-winning musical Kinky Boots, and has been seen on HBO’s “Girls,” Amazon Prime’s “Good Girls Revolt,” and can be heard voicing the fan-favorite role of Countess Coloratura on My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic. Hall starred opposite Marisa Tomei in Lincoln Center Theatre’s “How To Transcend A Happy Marriage.” Lena’s two solo musical revues Sin & Salvation (at the legendary Cafe Carlyle) and The Villa Satori: Growing up Haight Ashbury both played sold out shows and received rave reviews. Lena's year-long musical passion project “Obsessed,” pays tribute to her greatest musical inspirations with 12 EP releases over the course of 2018 that are accompanied by 54 music videos via YouTube and a live concert tour. For more about Lena Hall and where to see her live, follow her on social media @lenarockerhall or visit her website www.lenahall.com
Debra Barsha:
DEBRA BARSHA won the Jonathan Larson Performing Arts Award for the music to Radiant Baby, (Public Theater) directed by George C. Wolfe. Barsha wrote A Taste of Things To Come (with Hollye Levin), which ran at the Bucks County Theatre, Broadway Playhouse (Chicago) and off-Broadway at The York Theatre (dir. Lorin Latarro) and is published by Concord Theatricals. She was a composer for the song cycle Songs From an Unmade Bed (NYTW), Sophie (JRT), NBC’s Policewoman Centerfold soundtrack, and wrote book, music and lyrics for her one-woman shows Go to Your Womb and A Womb With a View (CAP21/Cherry Lane Theatre). Her holiday musical (co-written with Tim Sulka) The Most Miserable Christmas Tree got its world premiere in New York. Debra’s musicals (co-written with Sheilah Rae) include Every Other Thursday and Our Very Best People (both adapted from Edna Ferber short stories). The first was performed at NJ Rep in an evening called Five By Ferber (published by Smith and Krauss). Barsha and Rae also wrote the 15-minute musical From This Moment. Upcoming Barsha and Rae: The Helena Project (NAMT writer’s recipient grant). Her songs have been recorded by Rebecca Luker, George Clinton and Mary Balin among others. She sang on Prince’s 1-800 New Funk, George Clinton’s R&B Skeletons in the Closet and Thomas Dolby’s May The Cube Be With You. Barsha originated roles and was the music director for the original Off-Broadway companies of both Tony n’ Tina’s Wedding and Charles Busch’s Swingtime Canteen. She also served as music director for the Steven Sater/Serj Tankian world premiere of Prometheus Bound (ART - dir. Diane Paulus). She conducted Karen O’s opera Stop the Virgens! at St. Ann’s Warehouse and at the Sydney Opera House. Barsha wrote the vocal arrangement for the Yeah Yeah Yeah’s single Sacrilege (conducted live on Letterman with Broadway Inspirational Voices) and Awolnation’s single I Am (conducted on Late Night with Seth Meyers). She arranged vocals for Orange Is the New Black star Lea DeLaria's David Bowie tribute album House of David. She is one of the playwrights of the live-streamed Period Piece (dir. Karen Carpenter). Her song We’re Still Here (a tribute to our healthcare workers) can be viewed on Barsha’s YouTube channel, performed by her. Barsha was the Associate Conductor for Broadway’s Jersey Boys and Summer: The Donna Summer Musical. She is currently the pianist for Tina: The Tina Turner Musical.
Stephen Brackett:
Broadway Credits: The Lightning Thief and Be More Chill. Off-Broadway: A Strange Loop (Playwrights Horizons/Page 73, Obie and Drama Desk Awards), Be More Chill (Signature/Two River/London’s Other Palace & Shaftsbury Theater), The Lightning Thief (Theaterworks USA/National Tour), Buyer & Cellar (Rattlestick/Barrow Street/National Tour/Menier Chocolate Factory), The Mad Ones (Prospect Theater), Ultimate Beauty Bible (Page 73), Carnival Kids (Lesser America), After (Partial Comfort), Be A Good Little Widow (Ars Nova), and The Tenant (Woodshed Collective). Regional: Fall Springs (Barrington Stage), Significant Other (Geffen Playhouse), I Now Pronounce (Humana Festival), Le Switch (About Face), The Great Pretender (TheatreWorks). Upcoming: A Strange Loop (Wooly Mammoth), A.D. 16 (Olney Theater), and To My Girls (Second Stage).
Stuart Ross:
STUART ROSS has spent most of his four decades in the theatre creating, adapting and directing new shows. Mr. Ross is the book writer and co-lyricist of RADIANT BABY - The Keith Haring musical, which was performed to acclaim at NYC's Public Theatre (Drama Desk, Outer Critics Circle and Lucille Lortel nominations for Best Musical) and in Tokyo. He is currently working on the script and lyrics (with Debra Barsha) for the New production of RADIANT BABY (Two River Theater). Mr. Ross is probably best known as the writer and director of the long running musical phenomenon FOREVER PLAID which ran in NYC for over 2000 performances. Mr. Ross also created the Holiday sequel PLAID TIDINGS, plus THE SOUND OF PLAID, FOREVER PLAID: THE MOVIE; and for Broadway Cares/Equity Fights Aids, a sixteen-player version of FOREVER PLAID (4 SQUARED). Mr. Ross directed the show across the US and internationally, and this past summer adapted the show for the Pandemic audience. Plaid-Demic Plaid! Other work as director, adaptor include acclaimed productions of ENTER LAUGHING, THE MUSICAL at NYC's York Theatre (Drama Desk and Lucille Lortel nominations), the Bay Street Theatre, Los Angeles's Mark Taper Forum and the Wallis Annenberg Performing Arts Center. Working with Phyllis Newman, Mr. Ross adapted and directed the first revival of the musical SUBWAYS ARE FOR SLEEPING for NYC’s York Theatre. Mr. Ross is also currently adapting the film BATHTUBS OVER BROADWAY for the NYC cabaret scene, THE SECRET LIFE OF THE AMERICAN MUSICAL by Jack Viertel for the stage and THE ALICE B. TOKLAS COOKBOOK. On Broadway, Mr. Ross co-wrote the book to the musical STARMITES (6 Tony nominations), as well as THE RADIO CITY MUSIC HALL EASTER SHOW. Off-Broadway he adapted and directed IT’S A BIRD, IT’S A PLANE, IT’S SUPERMAN!; MINNIE’S BOYS, SILK STOCKINGS, COMPOSE YOURSELF and BAJOUR (YORK THEATRE). Mr. Ross has written and created hundreds of sketches, parodies, endless segments of special material and one-person shows for wonderful performers. These include Diahann Carroll (THE SWEETEST SOUNDS and BOTH SIDES NOW), Jason Alexander, Mary Martin (MY HEART BELONGS) and Faith Prince (A LEAP OF FAITH) among others. He also wrote THE HEEBIE JEEBIES, NOT-SO-NEW FACES, TEA WITH BEA (The Beatrice Lillie Show), FUN WITH DICK AND JANE: THE MUSICAL and was the creative consultant on DIAMONDS (directed by Harold Prince) and OLD JEWS TELLING JOKES. Other credits include STANDING ON CEREMONY: THE GAY MARRIAGE PLAYS off-Broadway and in LA (Los Angeles Drama Critics Circle Award as producer), Gilbert and Sullivan's THE GONDOLIERS presented in workshop for the Roundabout Theatre Company, WILD TRAX, a new musical based on the voice over industry, NASTY LITTLE SECRETS by Lanie Robertson, CREEPS, THE LUNCH GIRLS, DEAR LOVE OF COMRADES. In Los Angeles, Mr. Ross directed Reprise’s inaugural production of PROMISES, PROMISES (Jason Alexander, Jean Smart, Fred Willard and Allan Thicke), followed by the Reprise production of BRIGADOON (Marin Mazzie, Jason Daniely, Deb Gibson and Orson Bean); IT’S A WONDERFUL LIFE for Pasadena Playhouse (Alfred Molina, Michael Richards, Tony Shaloub, Sharon Lawrence, Orson Bean) and Michael Cristofer’s BREAKING UP (Allison Janney and Matthew Modine). Mr. Ross has worked at some of the country's most prestigious theatres, including Manhattan Theatre Club, San Diego's Old Globe Theatre, Primary Stages, The Alley Theatre, Pasadena Playhouse, Goodspeed Opera House, Cleveland Playhouse, Cincinnati Playhouse, Alliance Theatre, The Walnut Street Theatre. For television, Mr. Ross directed sitcoms, including episodes of FRASIER and VERONICA'S CLOSET. He directed and created special material for the PBS GREAT PERFORMANCES "AN EVENING AT THE POPS" starring Jason Alexander. Mr. Ross has served in over a dozen shows on Broadway and off as a "Show Doctor” and consultant. For ten seasons he worked as a director, dramaturg and writer at the EUGENE O'NEILL THEATRE CENTER'S NATIONAL MUSIC THEATRE CONFERENCE, and for nine years was a panelist for the ASCAP/DISNEY Musical Workshop. He is a recipient of the LOS ANGELES CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD, JOSEPH JEFFERSON AWARD, the NBC NEW PLAYWRIGHTS GRANT, and THE UNITED STATES STATE DEPARTMENT GRANT FOR CULTURAL EXCHANGE.
Fenimore Art Museum Presents Two Arthur Virtual Programs
Book Sale at Landis Oct 9th
Written By Editor on 10/4/21 | 10/4/21
Cornell Cooperative Extension Water and Climate Tour Schedule Oct 4-5
Food, Water and Climate - Farm Tour
October 4 - 5, 2021
Itinerary
Our COVID protocol is for everyone to wear a mask while on the bus, or inside a building when not eating or drinking.
DAY 1 Monday, October 4
12:00 Hamden Inn 35769 NY-10, Hamden, NY
Farm to Table, buffet luncheon - prepared by Hamden Inn
12:30 Presentation at the Hamden Inn from the Watershed Agricultural Council (WAC)
Brian LaTourette, (WAC) Program Operations Coordinator
Heather Magnan, (WAC) Communications Director
In coordination with the NYC Department of Environmental Protection (DEP), the WAC oversees implementation of best management practices on farms throughout the NYC Watershed to protect water quality in the largest unfiltered municipal watershed in the world. Officials, scientists, and municipal agencies from around the world, come to learn from the work being done here by the WAC.
1:15 The 607 CSA at Lucky Dog Farm 35786 NY-10, Hamden, NY
Tianna Kennedy manages The 607 CSA which works with 42 local farms to help them transport and market farm products regionally and in NYC. Deleted last sentence
2:00 Visit the farm, Lucky Dog Organic LLC - Richard Giles, Kalan Joslin
Lucky Dog Organic is a well-established organic farm in Delaware County, selling produce at local markets and serving customers in NYC at farmers’ markets and through The 607 CSA. Richard serves on the board of the Watershed Agricultural Council.
3:00 Leave for hotel
Attendees continuing on the tour will drive themselves to the Comfort Inn, 4470 State Hwy 28, Milford, NY.
4:00 Check-in
5:00 Chartered bus will pick-up tour attendees at the parking lot of the Comfort Inn and transport them to Cooperstown
5:15 Cooperstown Distillery – owner Gene Marra will host the legislators for tastings of spirits distilled from crops grown in New York State
6:30 Dinner in Cooperstown at Mel’s at 22 22 Chestnut St., Cooperstown
Guest speaker - Richard Ball, Commissioner, New York State Department of Agriculture and Markets
Remarks from Assemblywoman Donna Lupardo
After dinner - bus return trip to Comfort Inn
Food, Water and Climate - Farm Tour
October 4 - 5, 2021
Itinerary
DAY 2 Tuesday October 5, 2021
8:15 Tour bus will pick attendees at the hotel parking lot.
8:30 Depart for tour
9:00 Chicory Creek Farm 2272 NY-205, Mt. Vision, NY
Ean and Kate Mitchel have been operating this certified organic farm for 6 years. They primarily grow fall vegetable crops, and raise chickens and pigs. They have a small on-farm market and sell to restaurants, stores, food pantries and the 607 CSA.
9:45 Depart for Brick House Rd. Farm
10:30 Brick House Rd. Farm 139 Brick House Rd., Richfield Springs, NY
Pasture feed beef operation run by Steve and Barbara Purcell. The farm has utilized several programs through the Soil and Water Conservation District to protect water quality and implement productive rotational grazing.
11:15 Depart for Middlefield Orchard
11:45 Middlefield Orchard 2274 NY-166, Cooperstown, NY
Willy Bruneau owns this 130-acre fruit and vegetable farm which includes a corn maze, pick-your-own apples, and a farm market. They also produce fresh baked bread, specialty jams, cider doughnuts and other products.
Tour includes a wagon ride through the orchard.
12:30 Lunch – Farm to Table box lunch prepared by Magic Kitchen
1:30 Return to hotel
Double Fatal Accident in Windham
On October 3, 2021, state police from the Catskill barracks responded to a two-vehicle crash on State Route 23 in the town Windham. Initial investigation revealed that a 1998 Mercedes Benz, operated by Cameron Marron, age 36 from the town of Durham was traveling west on State Route 23 when he crossed over into the eastbound lane and struck a 2013 Nissan Titan pick-up truck that was traveling east. Cameron Marron and his passenger Nancy Marron, age 63 were both pronounced deceased at the scene. The operator of the pick-up, Shawn Smith, age 34 from the town of Ashland, was transported to Albany Medical Center via medivac. He is currently listed in stable condition with injuries to his right leg. The cause of the collision is under investigation.
State police were assisted by Hensonville and Windham fire departments.
Live at Landis Oct 8th: Menza Madison Band
Written By Editor on 10/2/21 | 10/2/21
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Big Changes at the Mountain Eagle
Written By Editor on 10/1/21 | 10/1/21
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