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Can you guess which Broadway star was a big fan of the New York Giants' great center fielder?

Victoria Theatre Association's annual Summer Cool Films Series continues 2016's celebration of Victoria Theatre's 150th Anniversary with a special line up of films celebrating the time when generations of Daytonians came to the "Victory" to see the latest movie release. The Summer Cool Films Series runs July 8-August 28 and includes Reel Late at the Vic late night movies and daytime Family Films!  Beginning July 8, VTA will set out the popular FREE popcorn and FREE soda plus some FREE nostalgia at the historic Victoria Theatre. Passbooks for the series are on sale now at Ticket Center Stage.  Call (937) 228-3630, toll free (888) 228-3630 or purchase online at www.ticketcenterstage.com.

Brooklyn Center for the Performing Arts at Brooklyn College continues its 2015-16 season with Moscow Festival Ballet's double bill of one-act ballets, Romeo and Juliet and Carmen, tonight, March 5, 2016 at 8pm. Tickets are $36-45 and can be purchased at BrooklynCenter.org or by calling the box office at 718-951-4500 (Tue-Sat, 1pm-6pm).

The 33rd season of the Schwabacher Debut Recitals continues on Sunday, March 6 at the new Dianne and Tad Taube Atrium Theater with bass-baritone Daniel Okulitch and pianist John Churchwell.

This summer marks another historic milestone for the annual Bard SummerScape festival. For the first time since its founding, this season's focus is on the music and culture of Italy, with seven weeks of music, opera,theater, dance, film, and cabaret keyed to the theme of the 27th Bard Music Festival, "Puccini and His World." This intensive examination of the life and times of Giacomo Puccini opens a window onto Italy's rich musical heritage from Palestrina to Menotti, by way of the most popular and successful - yet, paradoxically, frequently critically underrated - opera composer of all time. Complementing the music festival, some of the Tuscan master's most compelling compatriots provide other key SummerScape highlights. These include a rare, fully staged production of Iris, a forerunner of Madama Butterfly by Puccini's close contemporary Pietro Mascagni; the world premiere of Demolishing Everything with Amazing Speed, four newly unearthed puppet plays from leading Italian Futurist Fortunato Depero, as reimagined by Dan Hurlin;the world premiere of Fantasque, a new ballet set to the music of Respighi and Rossini by John Heginbotham and Amy Trompetter; a film series on "Puccini and the Operatic Impulse in Cinema"; and the return of Bard's authentic and sensationally popularSpiegeltent,hosted by the inimitable Mx. Justin Vivian Bond. Taking place between July 1 and August 14 in the Frank Gehry-designed Richard B. Fisher Center for the Performing Arts and other venues on Bard College's stunning Hudson River campus, SummerScape's 2016 offerings provide new opportunities to discover that, as Time Out New York puts it, "the experience of entering the Fisher Center and encountering something totally new is unforgettable and enriching." Tickets go on sale on Monday, February 15; click here for more information.

Brooklyn Center for the Performing Arts at Brooklyn College continues its 2015-16 season with Moscow Festival Ballet's double bill of one-act ballets, Romeo and Juliet and Carmen, on Saturday, March 5, 2016 at 8pm. Tickets are $36-45 and can be purchased at BrooklynCenter.org or by calling the box office at 718-951-4500 (Tue-Sat, 1pm-6pm).

All this yuletide revelry to which I am alluding comes courtesy of BUMT's latest production: Irving Berlin's White Christmas, the onstage updating of the 1954 film version that features a score of the master musician's finest songs as it tells the story of two song-and-dance men and their female counterparts who join together during one particularly mild winter ski season to help save the bacon of an inspiring leader who's played a significant role in their lives. It's a tuneful, feel-good show that's certain to lift your spirits and, as performed by the BUMT cast, reaffirm your faith that the future of musical theater will be thriving for years to come.

'Kern & Hammerstein's Show Boat in Concert with the New York Philharmonic' aired just last week as part of PBS' LIVE FROM LINCOLN CENTER.This New York Philharmonic production features an all-star cast led by Vanessa Williams and Downton Abbey's Julian Ovenden, as well as Norm Lewis, Jane Alexander, Fred Willard, and Lauren Worsham. Mis the broadcast? No worries! You can check out the full show below!

SAN FRANCISCO (October 12, 2015) –– San Francisco Opera Center Director Sheri Greenawald announced today the twelve recipients of the 2016 Adler Fellowship, a multi-year performance-oriented residency offering advanced young artists intensive individual training, coaching and professional seminars, as well as a wide range of performance opportunities. Adler Fellows are selected from the young artists who have participated in the Merola Opera Program. This prestigious training program has nurtured the development of more than 150 young artists since its inception.

The North Carolina Symphony, led by Associate Conductor David Glover will a program of music from two great Russian composers Friday, Oct. 16, at noon in Meymandi Concert Hall in downtown Raleigh in the opening concert of its popular “Friday Favorites” lunchtime series.

In the South Carolina town of Lamar at the close of the turbulent Sixties, two hundred angry white adults overturned a school bus full of African American children to protest school desegregation. It is with a similar incident that 'Brutal Exclusions,' a novel by Dann Hazel, begins, though the setting has been changed to Charleston, South Carolina. Rather than a bus filled with African American children, Hazel's bus is full of white children, with the single exception of a six-year-old black first-grader named Alethea Jamison. Such an exception is not merely a convenient convention of fiction in Hazel's novel; it is based on a critical reality during the Jim Crow era in the South. Public school officials, in order to appear in compliance with the Supreme Court's landmark 1954 decision in Brown v. Board of Education, frequently admitted only one black child or a small handful of black children into their predominantly white schools. 'I finished writing the original manuscript of 'Brutal Exclusions' in the mid-seventies,' the author notes. 'Then, I shelved it because I recognized that I was too young to adequately handle the subject matter. After white supremacist Dylan Roof murdered ten African American church members in Charleston, I decided it was time to revisit the book with a more mature perspective.' What Hazel found in storage was a typewritten manuscript composed by a very young man with literary aspirations. Yet, despite many rough edges, it told a compelling story. 'I spent several months in the process of rewriting,' he said. 'What I found to be most useful in the manuscript was the accuracy of historical details. In a sense, I had unwittingly produced an excellent journal of a tragic time in America's history.' In fact, Hazel's formative years were largely shaped by events happening during this time period. 'I grew up in the Sixties in a small South Carolina town in the northwest part of the state,' he explained. 'There, as in many towns, racism was ugly and rampant. As a young boy, I recall visiting my family's doctor whose waiting rooms were segregated. I enjoyed movies in a theatre where African Americans were mandated to sit in the balcony. I saw 'For Whites Only' signs on bathroom doors and above water fountains. Growing up, I heard some of the vilest racist rhetoric; there was a time when I began to believe it must be true. Then, in middle school, I met a black student, the only African American student enrolled in this school, who ultimately became my best friend through high school. As a result of my friendship with him, I knew what I had been taught was wrong on so many levels.' While race is the predominant theme in 'Brutal Exclusions,' other issues arising as part of the social consciousness were not ignored. Placing the story in Charleston, whose history is so closely tied to slavery, race and the Civil War, provided a setting larger than Lamar, and perhaps more conducive to doing justice to those issues. 'Alethea Jamison, the black youngster on the overturned bus, is the character around which much of the story revolves,' Hazel says. 'As a result of the trauma she experiences, she suffers from symptoms of PTSD. She can't speak; she has horrible dreams-that is, whenever she is able to sleep-as well as terrifying hallucinations. Her family, as well as a few supportive members of the community, both black and white, rally around her. But can justice be served in a city where long family lineages often dictate who's in power? And what happens when an individual discovers that a close family member is partially responsible for harming a child?' Hazel, who has a doctorate in psychology, has always had an interest in cultural diversity, including race, ethnicity, gender identity and sexual orientation. Additionally, as he pursued his degree, he found his niche in the arena of positive psychology. The topics of psychological well-being, social morality, and thriving particularly interested him. 'I'd like to think that 'Brutal Exclusions' reflects those interests,' he said. 'My principal characters are often able to surmount their personal challenges and moral shortcomings. Those shortcomings include racism-though, of course, not everyone in the novel, as in reality, is able to evolve. When one cannot change, even when society demands it, we must ask: What are the consequences? Sometimes they are dire; sometimes not so much. Still, there is always a price to pay.' 'Brutal Exclusions' is published by The Original Press, and is available now in both paper and e-book formats. For More Information, Contact: Dann Hazel PO Box Three Babson Park, Florida 33827 Phone: 407-574-5611 Email: dann.hazel@gmail.com Website: www.confidencecoaching4u.com

Staged by the Department of Drama (SU Drama) in Syracuse University's College of Visual and Performing Arts (SU: VPA), Kiss Me, Kate performs October 2-10 in the Archbold Theater at the Syracuse Stage/Drama Theater Complex, 820 East Genesee Street. Tickets range $17-$19 and can be purchased at vpa.syr.edu/drama, by phone at 315-443-3275, or in person at the box office, Monday through Friday, 10 a.m.-5 p.m.

A.D. Players bravely gives audiences a chance to see 12 ANGRY MEN presented without alteration or apology.

Just in time for Father's Day, Shout! Factory TV presents an event the whole family can enjoy! Every episode of Father Knows Best lands on the streaming service this month.

Metropolitan Opera singer Janinah Burnett and Joanna Marie Ford and Steven Wallace will perform the leading roles in Morningside Opera, Harlem Opera Theater and The Harlem Chamber Players concert production of VOODOO, the long-lost and historical opera by African American composer Harry Lawrence Freeman. They will be joined by Crystal Charles, James R. Hopkins III, Barry L. Robinson, Darian Worrall, a full chorus and 30-piece orchestra.  The production is directed by Melissa Crespo and conducted by Gregory Hopkins.   Last performed in NYC in 1928, VOODOO, will play two concert performances only on June 26 and 27, 2015 at 7PM at Miller Theatre at Columbia University (2960 Broadway, at the corner of Broadway and 116th street) in Manhattan. Terrance McKnight of WQXR Radio is the evening's host. Tickets are $25 advance/$30 at the door, with discount tickets available for students and seniors at $20. They can be purchased by visiting http://voodoo.brownpapertickets.com/ or by calling 800-838-3006.

Today in 2007, the first Broadway revival of 110 in the Shade opened at Studio 54, where it ran for 94 performances. 110 in the Shade is a musical with a book by N. Richard Nash, lyrics by Tom Jones, and music by Harvey Schmidt. Based on Nash's 1954 play The Rainmaker, it focuses on Lizzie Curry, a spinster living on a ranch in the American southwest, and her relationships with local sheriff File, a cautious divorce who fears being hurt again, and charismatic con man Bill Starbuck, posing as a rainmaker who promises the locals he can bring relief to the drought-stricken area. The revival cast featured Audra McDonald as Lizzi and John Cullum as H.C. Curry.

Everyone's favorite pickers are back in action when Mike Wolfe and Frank Fritz return for an all new season of AMERICAN PICKERS, premiering tonight, May 6, 9PM ET/PT.

Everyone's favorite pickers are back in action when Mike Wolfe and Frank Fritz return for an all new season of AMERICAN PICKERS, premiering Wednesday May 6, 9PM ET/PT.

Calling all balletomanes, historians, Ph.D. candidates, sociologists, audience members, and just about everyone else interested in dance. Do you want to see Diana Adams, Allegra Kent, Violette Verdy, Jillana, Maria Tallchief, Tanaquil LeClercq, Andre Eglevsky, Suki Schorer, Patricia Neary, Carol Sumner, Todd Bolender, Arthur Mitchell, Francisco Moncion, Nicholas Magallanes and Jacques d'Amboise again in the intimate surrounding of your living room? No, this not a joke, but the first of many VAI DVD releases from Montreal's Radio-Canada archive, encompassing a televised history of Balanchine's many works from 1954 well into the 1970s.

?The 32nd season of the Schwabacher Debut Recitals continues on Sunday, March 29 at Temple Emanu-El's Martin Meyer Sanctuary with soprano Julie Adams and pianist John Churchwell. Adams and Churchwell will present a program of works by Alfred Bachelet, Erich Wolfgang Korngold, Edvard Grieg, Sergei Rachmaninov and Lee Hoiby.

Against the backdrop of an America torn by World War II, cultures and communities clash when a Japanese American islander is accused of murder. This hauntingly lyrical saga-adapted from David Guterson's acclaimed story of mystery, love, and identity-deftly shifts from courtroom to strawberry fields to bloody battlefront, digging for hard truths buried in a forgotten history. Set in 1954 in a Puget Sound community divided among fishermen and farmers, whites and Japanese, SNOW FALLING ON CEDARS is at once a courtroom drama, a mystery, a love story, and, in flashbacks, a social history freighted with the angry residue of World War II and the exclusion of Japanese Americans. SNOW FALLING ON CEDARS appears at BPA tonight, March 13 - 29, 2015. Scroll down for a first look at the cast onstage!

Against the backdrop of an America torn by World War II, cultures and communities clash when a Japanese American islander is accused of murder. This hauntingly lyrical saga-adapted from David Guterson's acclaimed story of mystery, love, and identity-deftly shifts from courtroom to strawberry fields to bloody battlefront, digging for hard truths buried in a forgotten history. Set in 1954 in a Puget Sound community divided among fishermen and farmers, whites and Japanese, SNOW FALLING ON CEDARS is at once a courtroom drama, a mystery, a love story, and, in flashbacks, a social history freighted with the angry residue of World War II and the exclusion of Japanese Americans.

Louis Jourdan, a French actor famous for American film and television appearances in the Oscar-winning musical GIGI, MADAME BOVARY, CAN-CAN, and THE FIRST OLYMPICS: ATHENS, 1896, as well as Broadway appearances in shows such as ON A CLEAR DAY YOU CAN SEE FOREVER, has died. The Hollywood Walk of Fame winner was 93.