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991 State Highway 12, two miles south of Greene, NY

Co-Produced by
Jim & Beth Daniels
and
Jeffrey & Sally Brooks

July 17 - July 27

Featuring Colby Thomas as Felicia

A casualty of the prime time TV wars, soap star Andy Rally has come to NY (with his 29 year old virgin girlfriend) to try his luck on stage. He thinks acting lessons. His agent thinks Hamlet. At Shakespeare-in-the-Park. He gets the role. He’s justifiably terrified, and inadvertently summons the ghost of the greatest Hamlet of all, John Barrymore, whose old apartment he has unwittingly rented. Barrymore’s thrilled to be back, not only to coach Andy, but to take up where he left off: brawling, drinking, and charming and disarming the ladies.

Curtain times are 7:30p.m., Thursdays - Saturdays and 2:00 p.m. on Sundays. Tickets are $16 Thursdays, $18 Fridays & Sundays, and $22 on Saturdays. All performances start on time and there is no late seating. The box office opens one half hour before curtain.

For reservations, call 656-8499

Artistic & Managing Director

Chenango River Theatre

PO Box 584

Greene, NY 13778

Admin Office: 607 656-8778

Box Office: 607 656-8499 (TIXX)

www.chenangorivertheatre.org

Cortland, NY

presents the Children’s Show

“Wiley & the Hairy Man”

July 17^th, 22^nd, 24^th and 26^th

In the photo: Jefferson McDonald as Mamma, Parker Pogue as Wiley (on Myles McHale's shoulders),

Michael Morlani as Dog and Mark Reeve as the Hairy Man

Looking for fun, inexpensive entertainment for the entire family? Come to Cortland Repertory Theatre’s magical children’s theatre production of “Wiley & the Hairy Man,” at the national historic Pavilion in Dwyer Memorial Park on the shores of Little York Lake.

The story, by Suzan Zeder, is based on a great American folk tale about a boy’s struggle to find the courage to face his fears. With the help of his faithful dog, appropriately named “Dog,” Wiley encounters monsters both real and imagined and must trust in his own inner strength to save his Mamma and defeat the infamous Hairy Man who lives in the nearby swamp. The production is geared to spark the imagination of youngsters with basic puppetry, mime and audience participation. This enchanting tale is performed by CRT’s multi-talented acting intern company, including Kyle Hines, Jefferson McDonald, Myles McHale, Michael Morlani, Parker Pogue and Mark Reeve. The 50 minute show, directed by Kim L. Hubbard and choreographed by Meredith Van Scoy is appropriate for children from 5 to 105!

Only four performances remain: July 17^th, 22^nd, 24^th and 26^th, all at 2:00 pm. Tickets are only $5.00. Make a day of it! Bring a picnic lunch for before the show, enjoy the kiddie pool or park playground. For tickets or more additional information, call the CRT box office at 607-756-2627 or 800-427-6160.

Tickets are also available for purchase on-line at www.cortlandrep.org. Seating is general admission on a first-come, first-served basis. The theatre is handicapped accessible and air conditioned. Parking is free.

Franklin, NY

Presents

Franklin Stage Company's riveting new production of William Shakespeare's

Carmela Marner (Mistress Overdone) and Mark Piatelli (the Duke of Vienna)

Photo: Steve Monosson

FINAL WEEK!

July 17th - July 20th

Carmela Marner (Isabel) and Charlie Kevin (Angelo)

Photo: Steve Monosson

With trademark inventiveness and wit, FSC presents Shakespeare's coruscating masterpiece,

a fierce and terrifying assault on hypocrisy in high places.

Performances
Thursday, Friday and Saturday Evenings at 8 PM and Sunday at 2 PM and 5 PM

Admission is free. Reservations are recommended.

CALL 607.829.3700 OR E-MAIL reserve@franklinstagecompany.org

Ithaca, NY

July 17 - 26th

Mark Leydorf, Piper Goodeve and Whit Baldman

The production is made possible with the support of corporate sponsor Tompkins Trust Company and media sponsors Q Country 103.7, Lite Rock 97.3, and 870 WHCU.

Tickets may be purchased at the Ticket Center at the Clinton House, by calling (607) 273-4497, or online at www.hangartheatre.org. For more information about Oklahoma! and the Hangar Theatre please visit www.hangartheatre.org

South Fallsburg, PA

FIDDLER ON THE ROOF
Book by Joseph Stein

Lyrics by Sheldon Harnick Music by Jerry Bock

Directed by Lori Schneider-Wendt
Musical Director Amanda Mita

Thursday, July 17, 2008 @ 8:00 pm
Saturday, July 19, 2008 @ 8:00 pm
Sunday, July 20, 2008 @ 2:00 pm

Experience the "Tradition" for the first time, or relive it all over again...

In the air-conditioned, handicapped accessible Nartoff-Wells Auditorium in the
RIVOLI THEATRE
437 Route 42, South Fallsburg

(Parking available in adjacent, lighted parking lot)

$18 Adults, $15 Seniors, $10 Students (with valid ID)

*OPENING NIGHT SPECIAL
Good for the Thursday, July 10th performance only!

For those who cannot afford regular ticket prices, set your own price and â€œpay what you can!

Reservations suggested - info/reservations
Phone (845) 436-5336 OR (845) 434-7232

Produced by Special Arrangement with Music Theatre International

Syracuse, NY

The Talent Company Presents Disney’s High School Musical

July 17th - August 3rd

THE CORNER BISTRO

DINNER THEATRE

Carbondale, PA

July 18th - 27th

The doors open Friday and Saturday at 6:30 PM followed by Buffet and Show

The doors open Sunday at 3 PM followed by Buffet and Show

DINNER/SHOW $26 per Person

Tickets/Reservations call (570) 282 7499

76-78 South Main St.

Carbondale, PA 18407

Advanced Reservation Only!

Duryea, PA

"Pirates of Penzance Jr"

and

"Seussical Jr"

Friday July 18 and Saturday July 19 at 7:00

Sunday July 20 at 2:00

Seussical, Jr. – Directed by Lauren Costanza
Lynn Ahrens and Stephen Flaherty have lovingly brought to life all of our favorite Dr. Seuss characters, including Horton the Elephant, Gertrude McFuzz, Lazy Mayzie, and all of the Whos of Whoville! The score emerges as a Seussian Gumbo of musical styles, ranging from Latin to pop, swing to gospel, and R&B to funk! So let your toes tap, your fingers snap, and you’re imagination run wild for “Oh, the thinks you can think, When you think about Seuss!”

Pirates of Penzance, Jr. – Directed by Christa Manning
Wacky, irreverent and as entertaining today as it was when it first opened in 1879, The Pirates Of Penzance spins an hilarious farce of sentimental pirates, bumbling policemen, dim-witted young lovers, dewy-eyed daughters and an eccentric Major-General, all morally bound to the often-ridiculous dictates of honor and duty.

Major General & Daughters:

Little Theatre of Wilkes-Barre, N. Main St.

General Admission Tickets $12.00

Call 991-1818 for reservations

Taking its cue from Measure for Measure, Wagner's early comic opera gives us a moralizing civic force attempting to protect its youth from their natural desires. Everything comes to a head during a carnival celebration set in a colorful, theatrical evocation of 1950s Italy.

New production.
Sung in German with English titles.
Running Time: Two hours, 55 minutes, including one 25-minute intermission

July 19, 22m, 28m;
August 2, 10m, 14, 16m, 22
m = matinees

Sunday-Tuesday Matinees at 2:00 p.m.*
Saturday Matinees at 1:30 p.m.
Evening performances at 8:00 p.m.
*except August 3 and 17

Friedrich, German deputy to the King of Sicily, has temporarily assumed control in the King's absence and promptly declares love a capital offense. In addition, he has outlawed Carnival season and closed all the nightclubs.

Claudio and Julia, pregnant out of wedlock with Claudio's child, have been found guilty of the new law and sentenced to death. Claudio sends for his cloistered sister, Isabella, believing she may successfully intercede for him.

Isabella is convinced to leave her cloistered life to save her brother and confronts Friedrich, employing first reason, then pity to secure her brother's release. Friedrich, deeply aroused by her pleas, suggests a solution: her love in exchange for her brother's life. An elaborate plan is created to expose Friedrich's hypocrisy and, in the end, all is set right.

July 20m ~
August 1, 5m 9, 17m, 21, 23m
m = matinees

Sunday-Tuesday Matinees at 2:00 p.m.
Saturday Matinees at 1:30 p.m.
Evening performances at 8:00 p.m.

Caesar arrives on the banks of the Nile. Tolomeo, joint ruler of Egypt with Cleopatra, attempts to win Caesar's favor through the murder of Pompey, whom Caesar recently defeated in battle. Tolomeo's intended homage to Caesar does not have its desired effect. Cleopatra resolves to win Caesar's support through other means, and captures his attention disguised as Lydia, a servant.

Meanwhile, Cornelia and Sesto, widow and son of the slain Pompey, seek to avenge his death. With Tolomeo's troops on the march against Caesar, Cleopatra is forced to reveal herself.

Cleopatra is captured and Caesar apparently defeated, but Achilla, smarting from his betrayal by Tolomeo, provides the key to a change of fortune.

book written by Larry L. King and Peter Masterson and music and lyrics by Carol Hall

The musical is based on the true story of a legendary Texas brothel known as the Chicken Ranch - so named because customers were allowed to pay with poultry - which operated from the 1840s to 1973. The story centers around the controversy and mayhem brought about by the crusading television broadcaster Melvin P. Thorpe when he sets his sights on closing the Chicken Ranch because of the appalling thing he calls "loveless copulation". Although many of the state's politicians had, in fact, been customers of the brothel, they are eager to preserve their political careers and eventually side with Thorpe.

Parking is free, and the theatre is handicapped accessible and air conditioned. Tickets may be purchased at the CRT Box Office at 37 Franklin Street in Cortland, by calling 800-427-6160 or online at www.cortlandrep.org. For more information about any of CRT’s shows or programming, please visit www.cortlandrep.org.

Due to it’s mature theme and language, the show is recommended for mature audiences only, and not recommended for children.

The actor/director Fred Graham is preparing a musical version of The Taming of the Shrew, in which he plays Petrucchio and his ex-wife Lilli Vanessi plays the role of Katharine.

When flowers Fred intended for Lois Lane, playing the role of Bianca, are mistakenly sent to Lilli, the offstage drama threatens to overtake the play. Meanwhile, the actor Bill Calhoun continues to run up gambling debts, much to the dismay of Lois.
Things are further complicated when two mobsters show up to collect a gambling debt and Harrison Howell, Lilli's rich fiancé, shows up to collect Lilli.

Mistaken identities, revelations of past indiscretions and undying romance enliven the action offstage and on.

SOLD OUT DATES
July 7, August 19
VERY LIMITED AVAILABILITY
July 13, August 4, August 16

“The Parlor Room” paints the very abstract picture of a family and their struggle to remain as a whole through good times (however many few there are,) and painful times (however plentiful they may be.) Family is family, Right? Jessica, the youngest daughter of the seemingly family of four, has just committed suicide. The return home of Christopher, Jessica’s older brother, somehow becomes the main focal point of their attention, when he shows up to the family’s house with a new romantic interest and a conservative, admirable and moral outlook on family and death. Witty and obscenely absurd, yet with dark emotion, “The Parlor Room” offers much more than a glimpse into the daily lives of a chaotic, dysfunctional, yet lovable, family.

It’s easy to love a family. It’s getting loved back that’s hard.

Tickets: $12.00

Reservations: Call 457-3589

Come in out of the heat and enjoy an evening of entertainment in our air conditioned theatre!!!

Hancock, NY

Presents

"The Affair"

and

"Meet the Baritoni's"

2 plays written by Judith Present

July 18th, 19th, 20th

July 25th, 26th

Friday & Saturday 7:30 PM

Sunday, July 20th

2 PM

Tickets $10

Be Advised Adult Situations

Two plays written by Judith Present are coming to the Capitol Theatre on July 18, 19, 25, 26, and 27. “The Affair or Artie, Lillian, Sylvia and Ted,” is a one act play that takes place at Joel Epstein’s Bar Mitzvah in 1965 at The Twin Cantor Caterers. This will be the Bar Mitzvah you’ll never forget when some interesting information is revealed in the main dining room.

Along with "The Affair", is “The Baritoni’s”, which takes place at an Italian Funeral in 1965. You’ve heard of the Sopranos, but wait till you meet the crazy Baritoni Family. You’ll find out that nobody messes with Guido Baritoni, or his mother.

Both these 1965 period pieces are about family accommodation and how families stick together in the worst of times and the best of times. Both fun sets are designed by Ernest Schenk, founder of The Little Victory Players. Be advised that these broad comedies have adult situations and aren’t recommended for children under 16.

For more information, call: 607-363-2819

The Music Box Dinner Playhouse
Swoyersville, PA

Presents

Music, Lyrics & Book by
Meredith Willson

Directed by Kevin Costley
Musical Direction by Linda Orseck

Dedicated to the memory of Father Joe and the Father Joe Scholarship

July 18, 19, 20

July 24, 25, 26, 27

July 31, August 1, 2, 3

Thursday, Friday & Saturday Evening Performances:

Doors Open 6 pm * Meal 6:30 pm * Curtain 8 pm

Sunday Matinee Performances

Doors Open 1:00 pm * Meal 1:30 pm * Curtain 3:00 pm

Franklin, NY

Acclaimed Performer, Tim Crouch, opens two one-man plays at Franklin Stage.

Tim Crouch performs MY ARM

Photo: Steve Monosson

Franklin Stage favorite Tim Crouch continues the company's 12th Season of Admission Free theatre with his two original works, MY ARM and I, PEASEBLOSSOM (for family audiences, aged 6+).

MY ARM opens July 24 and plays through August 3, running Thursday through Saturday at 8pm, with Sunday matinees at 5pm.

I, PEASEBLOSSOM plays at 11AM on Saturdays and Sundays only: July 26, 27, and August 2,3.

Admission to MY ARM and I, PEASEBLOSSOM is free, but reservations are recommended.

Call 607 829 3700 for
reservations or email reserve@franklinstagecompany.org

For more on FSC's season, including the Sundays at 8 series of readings, and the company's upcoming
production of Bertolt Brecht's masterpiece Galileo, visit the company's website www.franklinstagecompany.org

Presents

KING LEAR

by William Shakespeare

Shakespeare's astonishing vision of a world tearing itself apart through violence, betrayal, and lust for power.

July 25, 26, 27 and August 1, 2, & 3

6 PM

All shows at the Nearing Summerhouse on Comstock Knoll at Cornell Plantations (near the Plantations gift shop)

New York City has Shakespeare in the Park. Ithaca has Shakespeare at The Plantations! A beautiful setting to experience The Bard and watch the sun set.

Limited seating provided. May also bring your own chairs and blankets.
Tickets not required. Donations encouraged.

For more information, visit our website http://mwmu.com/redbull/, or call Dave Dietrich at 220-3734.

For directions to the site, contact Cornell Plantations at 255-2400 or see the map at http://www.plantations.cornell.edu/

Cooperstown, NY

Presents

Bellini's
I Capuleti e i Montecchi

Conductor David Angus
Director Anne Bogart

July 26, 29m;
August 3m, 7, 9m, 12, 15, 18m, 24m
m = matinees

Sunday-Tuesday Matinees at 2:00 p.m.*
Saturday Matinees at 1:30 p.m.
Evening performances at 8:00 p.m.
*except August 3 and 17

SYNOPSIS

Romeo, leader of the Montecchi, approaches Capellio, leader of the Capuleti, to urge peace between the two rival factions. Disguised as his own envoy, he proposes peace be sealed by a union between Romeo and Giulietta, but the Capuleti refuse, saying she is betrothed to Tebaldo.

Guilietta is torn between her duty to her father and her love for Romeo. Lorenzo offers a plan: she will feign death, and in the interval he will arrange for Romeo to meet her. Romeo comes to Giulietta's lifeless body before he learns of Lorenzo's plan, and tragedy ensues.

TICKETS

Questions? Want to buy your tickets from a live person?

Call us at (607) 547-2255 or e-mail tickets@glimmerglass.org.

Greene, NY

Presents

FIVE GUYS NAMED MOE

“Everybody had a time, everybody had a real good time.”

Tony Nominated Musical Five Guys Named Moe

Hits Stage At Chenango River Theatre

July 30 - August 10

Performances Wednesday - Saturday 7:30

Double performances Sunday at 2 PM and 7:30 PM

A stellar cast performs the lyrics and music of the legendary composer and saxophonist Louis Jordan, who paved the way for rock-and-roll of the 1950s with more than 50 Top Ten singles.

Part comedian, part bandleader and a great songwriter, Jordan was known as the father of rhythm and blues. As he said, he “made the blues jump” and in so doing influenced such titans as B.B. King, Chuck Berry, Bill Haley, Ray Charles and Etta James.

Five Guys Named Moe has a limited run of only two weeks at Chenango River Theatre’s new (and air-conditioned) 99 seat theatre at 991 State Route 12, about 3 miles south of Greene.

Jordan’s first million-seller was Is You Is Or Is You Ain’t My Baby in 1944, followed by such hits as Let the Good Times Roll and his biggest seller of all, the 1946 Choo Choo Ch’Boogie. In all these he pursued a basic rhythm of “shuffle” boogie, later taken over by rock and roll. One of the crowning numbers of this exuberant musical is Saturday Night Fish Fry, combining a huge narrative with lots of humor. This is known to be one of the true, early rock and roll songs. The lyrics also show a rhythm and style that still prevails in music today.

Tickets are $20 Wednesdays and Thursdays, $22 Fridays & Sundays, and $26 on Saturdays. All performances start on time and there is no late seating. The box office opens one half hour before curtain. For reservations, call 656-8499 (TIXX), or go to www.chenangorivertheatre.org.

Union Dale, PA & Lakeville, PA

Presents

Murder on a Train!

Ride the Stourbridge Line train as the Lakeside Players present

“The Case of the Malted Falcon,”

by Tony Schwartz and Marylou Ambrose,

Sunday, Aug. 3, & Sunday, Aug. 10.

Private Eye Sam Club is in hot chocolate – er, hot water – when the priceless edible chocolate sculpture he’s guarding is stolen en route to an art gallery in Hawley. Was the thief Sam’s secretary and chocoholic Velma Vavoomsky? TV chef Rachael Raven? Bird activist Abigail Nightingale? Or one of the other wacky characters? Hunt for clues in Hawley, then board the train again for Act 2 of the play. At the end of the 3 ½-hour event, someone will be ruthlessly murdered, and it’s up to you to guess who done it! All tickets are $25. Call 570-253-1960 for reservations.

Endicott, NY

The Endicott Performing Arts Center located at 102 Washington Avenue in Endicott will be presenting

by William Shakespeare

Directed by Brett Nichols

EPAC's fifth annual Shakespeare In The Park presentation

at two locations!

August 7 - 10

Thursday through Sunday

7:30 PM

at the

George W. Johnson Park

Oak Hill Avenue in Endicott

August 14 - 17

Thursday through Sunday

7:30 PM

at the

Binghamton City Stage