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Salem’s Artistic Director, Jay
Kerr, has announced the completion of
casting for the World Premiere of Adirondack
Awakening, an original musical revue,
written by Kerr and Stephen Trombley.
Adirondack Awakening will have its initial
performances in the Cabaret Theater at
Fort Salem on Memorial Day Weekend, May
23, 24, and 25.
Sue Caputo, who starred last season (and
will be reprising her role this Independence
Day Weekend) in the Fort’s Songs
of War and Peace, will be sharing the
stage with another Fort favorite, Ann
Marie Acquilano, who sang several roles
at Fort Salem in the World Premiere
of A Christmas Carol: A New Musical.
Caputo comes to the new revue having
recently appeared in the Capital Repertory
Theatre’s winter production,
M. Butterfly. The ladies will be joined
onstage by Trombley and Kerr.
The journey of Adirondack Awakening begins
in 1609 when Samuel de Champlain and
Henry Hudson “discovered” the
mountains as they explored the bodies
of water that now bear their names,
each within months of the other. No
aspect of the four hundred years since
(or its evolutionary roots four billion
years before that) is too serious to
be lampooned, skewered, and satirized
by the musical pens of the performer/authors
and the wit of the two women joining
them.
Whether lamenting the near extinction
of the beaver or mocking the misery of
men literally lost in the woods, whether
eavesdropping on the diary of a teenage
girl taking the TB cure and falling in
love with a fellow patient in Saranac
Lake or simply celebrating the invention
of the paper bag (Adirondack timber and
ingenuity), they use musical styles to
comment on events in history that somehow
missed inclusion in mainstream history
textbooks.
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Salem Summer Cabaret Series |
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Unless
noted*: Friday & Saturday at 8 PM;
Sunday at 2 PM
Entertainment plus catering by Fred and Norene's,
reprising last season's very
successful cabaret bill of coffee and cheesecake
($15 Music Charge/$5 Food Charge) |
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| July 4-6 *(July
4 only at 6:30 PM) |
| Songs of War and
Peace |
With Sue Caputo, Jesse Liebman,
and Jay Kerr
Celebrating Independence
Day, a reprise of last year’s
revue of songs that mirror
and/or inspire public opinion
with music and lyric during
periods of American battles
from the Revolutionary War
to the conflict in Iraq. |
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| July 11-13 |
| Tom
Flagg sings Songs I Never Sang
on Broadway |
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| Broadway performer
Tom Flagg, direct from a two-year
Broadway run in The Fantasticks,
and Broadway appearances in
Will Rogers Follies, and the
most recent revivals of How
to Succeed in Business and
Oklahoma, tells backstage Broadway
stories and sings musical theater
standards that appropriately
accompany them. |
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Adam
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Johnny
Hancock |
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| July 19-20 (No
Friday Show) |
A Night
of Contemporary Comedy & Song
Rising New York humorist (Rascals, The Comedy Store) |
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| Adam Kerr
with his comic observations
about modern life, and Johnny
Hancock with his pop/jazz musical
take on the same, each returning
to the cabaret as headliners
after opening last year for
Benita Zahn. |
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| August 8-10 |
| Kerri
Lynn Jennings in Broadway: Vamped & Revamped |
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| Fort favorite
Kerri Lynn Jennings celebrates
the musical theater that shaped
her artistry, putting her own
signature on standards and
introducing us to some of the
classic melodies of contemporary
theater composers. These musical
explorations will form the
foundation of Kerri Lynn’s
next CD, a collaboration with
Arlington VT native Joshua
Clayton. |
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| August 15-17 |
| Sharon
Rose |
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| Backed by a
four-piece band, international
R&B/jazz artist
Sharon Rose brings her unique
interpretations of standards
to a live three-day recording
session at The Fort. Having worked
with such artists as Stevie Wonder,
Barry White, Jocelyn Brown, Cher,
and Tom Jones, Sharon’s
cover of the Carpenters classic
song, “We've Only Just
Begun,” was a hit in Asia. |
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| August 22-24 |
| The
Second Annual Best of Salem |
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| Winners of the annual talent
contents sponsored by the Footlighters
and the Historic Salem Courthouse
have been studying and crafting
their own cabaret mini-acts. |
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| September 5-7 |
| The
Devine Miss K |
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| Kathleen Devine, who has starred
on television in One Life to
Live and Search for Tomorrow,
on film, and on the legitimate
and musical stage, brings her
cabaret debut to Fort Salem. |
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| Thursday
Night Cabaret Light – 8 PM ($15 Music
Charge) |
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Return
visits by last season’s
cabaret favorites and local artists new
to the venue,served with coffee and soda,
and without cabaret cheesecake. |
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| July 10 |
| The
Woodshed Boys |
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men, three guitars, plus an
occasional banjo and some original
songs and a classic or two. |
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| July 17 |
| Stephen
Trombley |
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In
and Out
Salem’s Emmy Award-winning
Renaissance Man leads us down
a windy road of social and political
satire in monologue and music. |
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| July 24 |
| Kimerer
LaMothe with Geoffrey Gee on
the piano |
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| A Christmas
Carol’s Crachit
mom and dad, Kimerer LaMothe
and Geoffrey Gee, return to Fort
Salem for their third cabaret. |
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| July 31 |
| Lynne
Kerr |
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Lynne
Kerr sings Songs My Husband Wrote
“A vibrant and sensuous
voice,” writes Lawrence
Hillis in The Eagle. |
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| August
7 – TBA |
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| August 14 |
| Andrea
Green |
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| Greenwich
native and theater/music major
at SUNY/New Paltz, who cut her
performing teeth as a youth at
Fort Salem Theater, returns to
share the fruits of her new knowledge. |
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| August 21 |
| Ann
Marie Acquilano |
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Spirit of Christmas Past” from
Fort Salem’s A Christmas
Carol and cabaret performer in
Adirondack Awakening warms your
hearts with standards and love
songs. |
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| August
28 – TBA |
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