Hartford Children’s Theatre will
hold auditions for “You’re a Good Man, Charlie Brown -
revised” on Monday, July 30th and Tuesday, July
31st from 6:00pm to 8:00pm in the Carriage House
Theatre at 360 Farmington Avenue, Hartford. Park in the
Mark Twain House lot and walk across the street. All
auditions are by appointment only and for ages 10 through
18. Please prepare 16 bars of music from a Broadway musical
and bring your own sheet music. Be dressed to learn a dance
phrase and ready to read from the script. Please call
860-249-7970, ext 12, to schedule an appointment.
Performances are scheduled October 12th through
the 28th in the Carriage House Theatre. For more
information please go to hartfordchildrenstheatre.org
Celebriamo!
Sam Vinci and Friends Perform Italian
Music at Green Street's In the Limelight Series
Green Street Celebrates Middletown's Italian Heritage with a
Performance by Local Musicians
Middletown, Conn., July 12, 2007--In
celebration of the rich history of Italian culture in
Middletown, Green Street Arts Center presents Sam Vinci and
Friends performing classic Italian songs at the In the
Limelight Series. Mr. Vinci, a saxophonist and
Middletown native, has been performing Italian music in the
region for over 50 years. Continuing the legacy of his
father-who led the Italian marching bands in Middletown
throughout the 1940s and 50s--Vinci will lead a band of
local Italian--American musicians which includes Angelo
Sapia, vocals; Sonny Landolfo, guitar; Mike Proscino,
keyboard; and Rich Shonty, drums. The performance takes
place on Sunday, July 22 from 2-3:30pm.
The In the Limelight Series is a
monthly arts cabaret that presents professional musicians,
solo performers and literary artists in a relaxed, social
setting. Light refreshments will be served. Admission is $8
for members and $10 for general admission. Advanced
reservations are strongly recommended, call 860-685-7871 or
visit www.greenstreetartscenter.org for more information.
Green Street Arts Center is located at 51 Green Street in
downtown Middletown
Middletown, Conn., July 5, 2007--Mike
Daisey is a fierce storyteller--one minute hilarious, the
next minute sweet--with a fine-tuned ear for digression. The
New York Times has called him "one of the finest solo
performers of his generation," and he has been compared to
Garrison Keillor, Spalding Gray and David Sedaris. With his
one-man autobiographical show All Stories Are Fiction,
audiences get the chance to hear one-of-a-kind stories told
for the first time and never to be repeated again. Here's
how it works: An hour before curtain, Daisey sits down
backstage and creates a one-page outline, and when the
lights come up he opens his mouth to tell the tale for the
first and only time. Recently, his work Invincible Summer
has been seen at Cambridge's American Repertory Theater and
at Yale Repertory Theater.
Daisey appears at the Summer Series of Wesleyan University's
Center for the Arts--located at 283 Washington Terr. in
Middletown--on Thursday, July 19 at 8pm. Tickets cost $15
for general admission; $12 for seniors; and $8 for students.
For more information and tickets, visit www.wesleyan.edu/boxoffice
or call 860-685-3355.
"Eye"
Produced by: Summer Cabaret at Yale
Summer Cabaret at Yale
Wed-Sat, 8 p.m. Created and directed by Alex Knox. Get lost
in something fantastically unexpected as monsters, lovers,
heroes and misfits cross paths in this wildly imaginative
symphony of physical theater. Performed entirely with
original masks. Doors open at 6:30 p.m. for dinner from Chef
Anna Belcher.
www.summercabaret.org Jul. 18 - Jul. 28
Price: $25.
Box office: 203-432-1567
"Gathering Shells"
Produced by: Quinnipiac Universlty
Theater for Community
Little Theatre
1 Lincoln St.
New Haven,CT
Crystal Brian directs. Brian and poet Allan Garry, a Vietnam
War veteran, co-wrote play. It examines impact of war and
trauma on those who fight and on those at home to whom
soldiers return when the battle is over.
www.quinnipiac.edu Jul. 19 - Aug. 5Sundays : 2 p.m.
Thursdays : 8 p.m.
Fridays : 8 p.m. Saturdays : 8 p.m. Price: $12 adults, $8
students and seniors.
"The
Good Body"
Hartford Stage
By Eve Ensler; directed by Tracy Brigden. Explores cultures
of and desire through the eyes of women around the world. In
conjunction with Connecticut Theater Festival.
Through Jul. 29
On
the Twentieth Century
Musicals at Richter
100 Aunt Hack Rd.
Danbury,CT
Tony Award-winning "Great Train Musical" based on the play
"Twentieth Century" by Charles MacArthur and Den Hecht and
trhe 1934 film of the same name. www.musicalsatrichter.org.
Through Jul. 28Sundays : 8:30 p.m. Thursdays : 8:30 p.m.
Fridays : 8:30 p.m.
Saturdays : 8:30 p.m.
Price: $20/adult, $15/senior, $12/student
Box office: 203-748-6873
"Seussical the Musical"
Produced by: Brookfield Theatre for the Arts
Brookfield Playhouse
Whisconier Road, (Rte. 25)
Brookfield,CT
Musical extravaganza filled with characters from Dr. Seuss
books. Two additional performances July 19 and 26.
www.brookfieldplayhouse.org. Through Jul. 28
Fridays : 8 p.m.
Saturdays : 8 p.m.
Price: $20 general; $45 dinner & show package at Bailey's
Backyard of Brookfield.
Box office: 203-775-0023
"Little Shop of Horrors"
Produced by: Comedy 101
In association with Cheshire Performing & Fine Arts
Committee. Bring lawn chair, blanket and picnic dinner. Held
at Cheshire Park, Highland Avenue, Route 10. Rain location
is Highland School.
Jul. 19: 7:30 p.m. Jul. 20: 7:30 p.m. Jul. 21: 7:30
p.m.
Price: $8 advance, $10 at the gate.
Box office: 203-272-2787
"Little Shop of Horrors"
Produced by: Wethersfield Teen Theater
Wethersfield High School
411 Wolcott Hill Road
Wethersfield,CT
Jul. 19 - Jul. 21
Thursdays : 7:30 p.m. Fridays : 7:30 p.m. Saturdays : 2 p.m.
7:30 p.m.
Price: $8 adults, $5 students and seniors.
Little Shop of Horrors
Darien Music Theater
Debut production for the new professional summer stock
theater that's occupying the spot of the former Darien
Dinner Theater. Tickets may be purchased at Smarttix: (212)
868-4444 or www.smarttix.com.
Jul. 19: 8 p.m. Jul. 20: 8 p.m. Jul. 21: 8 p.m.
Price: $30
Box office: 203-505-8736
The
Tempest
Boothe Memorial Park &
Museum
Main St.
Stratford,CT
Box Office: 203-612-7908
Outdoor Shaksepeare production by the Players at Putney
Gardens, in the park's Sunken Garden.
Through Jul. 28Fridays : 8 p.m. Saturdays : 8 p.m.
Price: $15/general, $12/senior & student
Twelfth Night
Waterfront Park
111 Union Street
New London,CT
Romance, cross-dressing and scheming servants in
Shakespeare's comedy. Outdoor production, presented by Flock
Theatre. Wed.-Sun., 7 p.m.
flocktheatre.org Jul. 19 - Jul. 29
Price: $10-$15
Box office: 860-443-3119
Love's Labor Lost
Beardsley Zoo
Box Office: 203-393-3213
Annual outdoor Shakespeare production: a modern take of the
bard's play, set on a fictitious Connecticut college campus
dubbed University of Navarre. Features songs, music and
dances of the 50s and 60s. In the zoo's Peacock Pavilion.
www.CTfreeshakespeare.org
The
Preservation Hall Jazz Band
Ridgefield Playhouse
88 East Ridge Ave.
Ridgefield,CT
Straight from New Orleans, the Preservation Jazz Band has
been performing Dixieland tunes, Southern spirituals, and
vintage pop songs for over 25 years. All proceeds from
tonights show will go toward the Katrina Hurricane Relief
Fund.
Jul. 20: 8 p.m. Price: $45-50
Box office: 203-438-5795
"Salute to Sinatra & Dorsey"
produced by: Talcott Mountain Music
Festival
Performing Arts Center at
Simsbury Meadows
Iron Horse Boulevard
Simsbury,CT
Hear Tommy Dorsey's biggest Hit Parade standards. Jeff Tyzik
conducts. Steve Lippia, vocals; Mark Kellogg, trombone; Dave
Mancini, drums. www.hartfordsymphony.org
Jul. 20: 7:30 p.m.
Price: Tickets: $18 advance, $23 at the gate. Free tickets
for children 12 and under.
Box office: 860-244-2999
16th
Annual Greater Hartford Festival of Jazz
Email: hartfordjazz.org
Features performances by Jimmy Green, Steve Davis, Bradley
Leighton, Joyce Cooling, Pamela Williams, Gerald Albright,
Esteban Arrufatt, Barbara Fowler, and Kevin Mahogany & The
Kansas City Review.
Jul. 20: 6 p.m. Jul. 21: 4 p.m. Jul. 22: 10 a.m.
Price: Free
Jay
Black
Produced by: Hamden Arts Commission.
Meadowbrook Park
2761 Dixwell Ave.
Hamden,CT
Former lead singer of Jay & the Americans.
Jul. 20: 7:30 p.m.
Price: Free.
Box office: 203-287-2546
Electric Hot Tuna
Klein Memorial Auditorium
910 Fairfield Ave.
Bridgeport,CT
Box Office: 203-367-2002
With Barry Mitterhoff and Erik Diaz, formerly of Jefferson
Airplane. Oteil & the Peacemakers open. www.TheKlein.org.
Jul. 20: 8 p.m.
Price: $25/$35/$45
Thursday, July
26 The Hot Cat Jazz Band At Mark Twain
House
The Hot Cat Jazz Band is the hottest band on the East
Coast specializing in swing, big band jazz, Dixieland and
classic rock dance music with standards from George
Gershwin, Cole Porter and Duke Ellington.
All performances are FREE and begin at
6 p.m. on the lower lawn of The Mark Twain House &
Museum. Bring lawn chairs or a blanket; pack a picnic dinner
or purchase dinner in the Mark Twain Café, now featuring
Tallulah’s catering. The Mark Twain Store will be open prior
to the concerts.
Festivus Music Festival 2007
Lebanon Fairgrounds
Mack Road
Lebanon,CT
Gates open 6 p.m. July 19. More than 20 bands performing
over the three-day weekend. Headliners include DJ Logic,
Frankie Bones and Spookie Daly Pride. Local artists include
the Josh Dion Band, Otherwise, Rachel Zamsteen, the Matt
Zeiner Band, JJ Blades and Rane.Jul. 20: Jul. 21: Jul.
22:
Price: $25 day pass, $55 weekend pass, $65 weekend pass at
the gate.
Box office: 800-514-3849
Paris
Bennett
Produced by: Ives Concert Park Series
Ives Concert Park, Western
Connecticut State University, Westside Campus
Lake Avenue Extension
Danbury,CT
"American Idol" finalist. www.wcsu.edu/tickets
Jul. 20: Price: Call for tickets.
Box office: 203-837-8499
Summer Music
Music Mountain, Gordon Hall
225 Music Mountain Road
Falls Village,CT
Box Office: 860-824-7126
Email: www.musicmountain.org
78th season at Music Mountain featuring jazz and chamber
music.
Through Jul. 29 Price: $12-25.
Donna
Summer
Foxwoods Resort Casino
Jul. 20: 9 p.m. Jul. 21: 9 p.m.
Price: $55, $75.
Box office: 800-200-2882
The
Capitol Theater Summer Chorus
The Capitol Theater
896 Main St.
Willimantic,CT
Group consists of 40 singers form the greater Mansfield and
Willimantic areas.
Jul. 20: 7:30 p.m. Jul. 21: 7:30 p.m.
Price: $7.Box office: 860-465-5636
Yale
Brass Trio: "An Evening of Winds"
Produced by: Norfolk Chamber Music
Festival.
Ellen Battell Stoeckel
Estate, Music Shed
Routes 44 & 272
Norfolk,CT
Music of Isaac, Lansky, Erod and others. With Yale Brass
Trio, Frank Morelli, Mihae Lee and Peter Frankl.
www.yale.edu/norfolk Jul. 20: 8 p.m.
Price: $15-$45; $10 young adults (age 18-25); kids free.
Box office: 860-542-3000
Annual Music at Twilight Program
Prudence Crandall Museum
Routes 14 and 169
Canterbury,CTBox Office: 860-546-7800
Nick Anderson and Tall Grass perform traditional bluegrass
favorites.
Jul. 21: 6 p.m. - 8 p.m. Price: Free.
Patti
Austin
New Haven Green
Bounded by Chapel, College, Elm and Church Streets
New Haven,CT
Box Office: 203-773-9494
R&B/soul/pop vocalist. Concerts on the Green series.
infonewhaven.com
Jul. 21: 6 p.m. Price: Free.
Burnt
Sugar
Real Art Ways
56 Arbor St.
Hartford,CT
Box Office: 860-232-1006
Email: http://www.realartways.org
Twenty-eight piece band Burnt Sugar, The Arkestra Chamber
performs.
Jul. 21: 7 p.m. Price: Free. Free.
Celebrate East Lyme 2007
Celebrate East Lyme 2007 is a fun
street festival on Saturday, July 21 from 3 p.m. to 9 p.m.
This event is free and includes a flea market, sand castle
competition, music, vendors Jul. 21: 3 p.m. - 9 p.m.
Price: Free.Box office: 860-739-6422
Vince
Giordano & the Nighthawks, String of Pearls
Andrews Memorial Town Hall
54 East Main St. (Route 1)Clinton,CT
Box Office: 203-669-1208
Swing, jazz vocal trio. Presented by the George Flynn
Classical Concerts; tickets required.
georgeflynnclassicalconcerts.com
Jul. 21: 5 p.m. Price: Free.
Hartford Pops Festival Orchestra
Great River Park
Amphitheater
East River Drive
East Hartford,CT
Box Office: 860-231-0131
A 38-piece professional concert band featuring wind, brass
and percussion instruments will perform a musical program.
Jul. 21: 7 p.m.
Joyful Noise in Downtown Middletown
Church of the Holy Trinity
381 Main St.
Middletown,CT
Performances by Unspoken and Holyfire.
www.holytrinityct.org Jul. 21: 7 p.m. Price: $10.Box
office: 860-347-2591
Vince
Gill's Friends and Family Tour
The fact that Gill will surely play
some songs from last year's outstanding four-disc
mega-album, "These Days," is reason enough to attend this
show.
With Amy Grant and the Del McCoury Band.
Jul. 21: 7:30 p.m. Price: $38 to $58. www.livenation.com
Box office: 203-624-0033
Grass
Routes
Manchester Bicentennial
Bandshell
Manchester Community College Campus
60 Bidwell St. Manchester,CT
Five-piece bluegrass band from central Connecticut.
Jul. 22: 7 p.m. Price: Free.
COMEDY
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Saturday, July 21
Hot Summer Comedy
NightsSeven Angels Theatre
Featuring Marion Grodin, Richie Byrne and Steve
Lazarus, standup. Music by Aaron Kaufman.8 p.m.
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Treehouse Comedy
NightFairfield Theatre Company
Comedy show starring RC Smith, Paul Lyons and Patty
Rosborough.
8:30 p.m.
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Sunday, July 22
Comedy Night
Ivoryton Playhouse
Featuring Vincent McElhone, Tom Van Horn and Johnny
Lampert, standup, in a cabaret-style setting.
7 p.m.
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