Schenectady Today -- In and Around the Capital Region
Filmed November 29, 2011 (Show #700)
Photographs by Dick Paterek -- Website by Gregg Millett
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- Douglas Sills (Gomez) is a lead in the Broadway Tour of “The Addams Family” and will appear in the show this week at Proctors Mainstage. You’ll remember The Addams Family from the cartoons in the New Yorker Magazine by Charles Addams as well as the TV show. Now a Broadway Musical to enchant new fans! Doug has received Tony and Drama Desk Nominations as well as the Los Angeles Ovation Award for his performance as the Scarlet Pimpernel. Production Dates: Nov 29 through Dec. 4 (8 performances). Showing photos & video of the production during the segment.
- Websites: Tickets: www.Proctors.org and background on the show: www.TheAddamsFamilyMusical.com
- Executive Chef David Hunt from “Generations” at the Golden Arrow Resort & Sharon Burstein will discuss the Lake Placid Holiday Stroll. Chef Hunt will show us how to make and decorate Gingerbread Houses. This is an annual tradition in many homes. The Lake Placid Holiday Stroll will take place the weekend of Dec. 9-11 in Lake Placid.
- · Websites: www.LakePlacid.com and www.Goden-Arrow.com
- Jon Elbaum (Director) of the Troy Savings Bank Music Hall will discuss the upcoming events at the Hall. They have a free concert on Dec. 13: “Music At Noon” with the Capitaland Chorus starting at 12 noon (doors open at 11 am). They are located at 30 2nd Street in Troy. 273-0038
- Website: www.TroyMusicHall.org
- John Massaroni & Pat Hoffman (Actors) performing in the Schenectady Civic Theater’s Production of “The Royal Family”. This is a comedy about the drama-filled lives of a theatrical Family (thinly based on the Barrymores). Directed by Jeffrey Scott. Production Dates; Dec 2-4 and 7-11.
- Website: www.CivicPlayers.org
- Karen Christina Jones (Asst. Director), & Sheila O’Shea (Actor) representing Confetti Stage’s “Last Night at Ballyhoo”. Production dates: Dec. 8-11 and 15-18. Location: Albany Masonic Hall at 67 Corning Place (near Crowne Plaza). 242-8015.
- Website: www.ConfettiStage.org