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| August 21-22: Third Annual Talent Show Winners' Cabaret |
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| The winners of this spring's Old Courthouse Talent Trials join together in a cabaret under the direction of the Fort's artistic director, Jay Kerr. A panel of judges, performer/choreographer Aaron Coulson, cabaret singer Lynne Kerr, and singer/actress Shannon Rafferty, selected four winners from three age categories. Youth winner Rebecca Butler sings with the emotional understanding and connection of a seasoned artist; in the Teen category, her brother Aaron Butler, who accompanied several of the other performers, brings a passion to his vocals as he plays a variety of instruments; also in Teen, Jack McChesney opened the second act of the show with a drum solo that dazzled judges and audience alike. The Adult category found the veteran a cappella quartet, Boys 'R' Us, perfect both in harmony and joy of performance. Talent Trials host Dan Garfinkel will reprise his role as host of the cabaret. Two nights only to catch what our audiences tell us is a highlight of the summer season. |
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| Starting October 10, cabaret artists, headlined by Broadway performers, inaugurate a season of Saturday night cabarets, including the performing return of former Fort Salem producer/performer, Kathy Beaver. Watch this space in early summer for an announcement of the entire fall season. |
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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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| 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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Fort 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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| 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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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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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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Thursday Night Cabaret Light – Summer
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| July 10 |
| The Woodshed
Boys |
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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 |
| Nathan
Lucrezio – Broadway
My Way |
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| Cambridge
resident, Penn State musical theater major,
in a solo performance of his favorite songs. |
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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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