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HAIR SPRAY HOLDS PERFECTLY IN BUBBLY WBT BEEHIVE BOUFFANT BODACIOUSLY
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WPCNR ON THE AISLE. Theatrical Review by John F. Bailey. May 6, 2012:
You can’t stop the beat in Westchester Broadway Theatre’s bring-back of the Tony Best Musical HAIRSPRAY based on the camp John Waters 1988 film. The early 1960s beat and changin' times comes right back with all the teen hormones you remember. Remember when the big thing if you were not too pretty and idolized cute guys to die for, or wore glasses and used a pocket protector was to get on home after school and watch American Bandstand, or if black to watch Soul Train? This was your life!

The spectacular national dance-off finale to HAIRSPRAY...It's Shindig, Hullabaloo and Bandstand all on one stage! Features the comedically gifted, left to right, front row, INGA BALLARD as Motormouth, PAT McROBERTS perfect pitch dance host, Corny Collins, ELGIN GILES as cleancut Seaweed, ERIN McCRACKEN as Tracy, TRIPP HAMPTON as Link, TERRY PALASZ as Penny's Mom, and STACIE GOGO as loyal sidekick Penny. Under the Ultra Clutch hair spray bottle : BRUCE REBOLD as Tracy's Dad, Wilber Turnblad and TAD WILSON as EDNA TURNBLAD. And, of course those wonderful beehive hairdos of yesterdates! Photos, Courtesy, Westchester Broadway Theatre by John Vecchiolla
In WBT’s Baltimore on opening night Friday, the show is WZZT-TV’s Corny Collins Show, a spot-on parody of Bandstand. Saxophonist Ron Kozak’s mellow sax seduces your 60s heart with those danceable, wailing saxy riffs of dances and sound-the-same ballads and the crude beginnings of soul music that drove the 60’s beat beginning a society revolution.
Want to live the innocent life of the 60S teen when there was no AIDS, no drugs, and detention was the worst thing that could happen to you? The irreverent—cohesive cast of strong scene-stealers in one of the best assembled ensembles WBT has put together in every key role, creates early 60s for children of all ages with no four-letter words to worry about. It shows how rock and roll and soul came here to stay.

Determined Erin McCracken as Tracy Turnblad, a chubs with three goals in life: get on Corny’s show, win the show dance contest and pursue her tv idol, Link Larkin played with Bobby Darin/Bobby Rydell flare by Tripp Hampton (below), show that teen dreams do come true as believable, lovable teen leads with great timing, chemistry and deliverability of the original tunes of this show.
Ms. McCracken carries this fantasy out with pluck, guile, and has the audience from the first Good Morning, Baltimore to her best number, I'm a Big Girl Now with Mr. Wilson as her Mom.

TRIPP HAMPTON as idol Link performing IT TAKES TWO on the Corny Collins Show.. Hampton as Link channels Fabian, Bobby Darin, Paul Anka and teen idols of the past with perfect cracked voice.. His rock and roll balladeering captures the hearts and dreams of teenage girls young and old, many of whom attended Friday night.
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Happy Trails, City Limits until we meet again. “Stork Club” of WP Renovates
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WPCNR BOULEVARDIER. By John F. Bailey. April 12, 2012:
This Sunday will be the last day of business for the “meet, greet, and deal center” of White Plains, the classic City Limits Diner on the corner of Central and Tarrytown Road, opposite County Center. It is closing for renovations that will last the next 6 to 8 weeks and reopen in July as a brand-new City Limits, with new décor, new rich interior and façade.

It will be hard to match the popularity of City Limits, easily the best known in the city. Renovations have begun on the exterior on the place that it’s easy to say, “Let’s go to the Limits.”
Unofficially the City Limits has been the “Stork Club” of White Plains where the Mr. and Mrs. White Plains rub elbows with the elite for twenty years.

THE LAST BREAKFAST: Jim Benerofe, Dean of White Plains Journalism and John Bailey at City Limits this morning, enjoying a last breakfast.Photo by Steve Morton
City Limits has also been “The Official Hangout of the White Plains Week Award Winning Television Program” for the last 11 years. When I began the show with Alex Phillipidis and Jim Benerofe in 2001, we all wanted to do lunch after the show. I said we needed to do this just like Walter Winchell, the man who invented news commentary in the 1930s, did after he did his radio program. Winchell met with his entourage at the Stork Club in New York in that era. Winchell also occupied Table 51 at the Stork. At City Limits, you can see the Big Three of Westchester Television News hanging out at Table 51. We love it there, where the laughs come easy, and the gossip is notorious and cannot be used on our show.
Every Friday, the White Plains newsmen who matter, Peter Katz, Jim Benerofe and me, who do the television show everybody watcheson the internet at www.whiteplainsweek.com or Fridays and Mondays at 7:30 and 7 (Channels 45 & 76) , have been having lunch at this uniquely atmospheric art deco treasure. Shiny, cromey, tiley and funky, after being redesigned from the original Livano’s restaurant and opened in 1994 by the Livano Family, City Limits has served the tasty (upper cut above the usual diner fare) breakfasts, lunches and dinners you cannot match anywhere else in a lively, slap-dash, uplifting atmosphere.

Eggs Benedict and a side of sausage in progress.
It delivers what every real reporter needs, black coffee and a donut, and atmosphere.
What’s so unique about City Limits? It's internal hub-bub you cannot find anywhere else in the city where City Limits burgers sizzle on an open grill night and day. It’s the electrifying distinctive “ding” of City Limits silverware that gets your attention like the “NBC" jingle.

Last Soda Fountain in the City.

The bustling bakeshop, and airy interior

It is the authoritative “clunk” of the City Limits china; the “come on in pardner and have a cup of java” hospitality signified by the classic Coffee Cup and donut suspended over the hostess platform. The silver signs: “Bakery. Ice Cream,” and “Capucino bar,” the comfort of the booths, and the good will of the snappy dressed wait staff in their signature dress shirts and ties who deliver the most courteous, fastest service in town. They are also the best dressed.

Raymond, with the Livano family since 1985, demonstrating City Limits classic fashion look.
The City Limits brims with life. Usually jammed for lunch, it’s where you want to meet to discuss things where you won't be overheard; treat the kids on vacation or start a weekend off right. You can hear everybody at your table, but the people at the table next to you cannot hear you, the six degrees of separation is just about right. I do hope the acoustics are preserved.
The coffee is the best in town. The breakfasts are outstanding, especially the eggs benedict and my favorite side, the fat sausages.
The place sounded and felt like life was moving inside. No pretensions. And they were always glad to see you
They were the only place you could get the soft shell crab wrap (just now coming into season, I will miss that), and my favorite, the black angus City Limits burger.
I will miss the beers, the egg creams and those great Friday lunches of the past
Man, we're all going to miss this place.


Coming in July...the New City Limits
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WHEN I FIRST MET MIKE WALLACE
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WPCNR MILESTONES by Peter Katz (special to WPCNR) April 9, 2012:
Although I never worked with Mike Wallace during my news and broadcasting career, we were nodding acquaintances over many years at uncounted events due to the fact that my father had worked with him in the mid-1950's, and I had first met him as a youngster who yearned to get into television.

MIKE WALLACE, 1950s
Until 1955 or so, Mike Wallace had not been known as a journalist. His career in radio and t-v was checkered. During the 50's, he had been on a number of shows originating in New York, including a daytime show on CBS with his wife at the time, Buff Cobb. He had done commercial work, hosting of quiz and variety shows, and just about anything else that came along. Channel 5 here in New York, which went by the call letters WABD, (standing for its founder Allen B. DuMont), decided it was time to establish a news department and begin daily news programming. Among the key people hired were Ted Yates, Sanford Socolow, who would later go on to produce the CBS Evening News with Walter Cronkite, and Mike Wallace.
Wallace would on rare occasions be sent out with a film crew for a story, would anchor the evening 15-minute newscast, and would also do the live commercial on the program. The sponsor of the program was Bond Clothing. My father was display director for the clothing chain, and was responsible for the in-studio set-up of the store's live commercials. In fact, he had that responsibility on other shows the store had sponsored on the DuMont network.
As a child, I had the opportunity to see early television from the inside, watching shows such as "Captain Video" at the DuMont studio in the old John Wanamaker Department Store in Manhattan. Now, I was getting to hang around with Mike Wallace doing the news at the state-of-the-art DuMont Tele-Center at 205 E. 67th street. And, in early television one of the rules was that you had to be kind to the sponsor's kid.
When I first met Mike Wallace, he was with Ted Yates, the program's producer. Yates would soon invent the late night interview show Night-Beat at DuMont, which would establish Wallace as a tough interviewer and create his cigarette-brandishing tough reporter image. It was in studio 3, on the 3rd floor at DuMont. As an aside, my co-hosts on White Plains Week, John Bailey and Jim Benerofe, and I recently visited the studios on 67th street. They're still home to Channel 5, which now is Fox television. What was studio 3 has been converted into the Fox5 newsroom.
At the time, two shows originated back to back in studio 3. The studio was divided by a large translucent rear projection screen. On one side of the screen, Wallace sat on a stool reading the news and moved to the commercial set at the appropriate time to tout the virtues of a Bond suit. On the other side, an interview show featuring television personality Tex McCreary was set-up to follow the Wallace newscast.
Four things I remember now about the late Mike Wallace: first, he was very nice and encouraging to me to pursue a career in television; second, he was himself excited about the prospects for the burgeoning medium of television to have a serious impact on society; third, his face was terribly pockmarked; fourth, over the years, he was kind enough to remember me even as I was pursuing the career as he had encouraged me to do.

Mike Wallace
1919-2012
Note: Mike Wallace, the television interviewer, renowned for his "tough interviews" on 60 Minutes, and a news legend died Saturday in Connecticut at the age of 93
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LEGALLY BLONDE PASSES THE BAR AT WBT COURT
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WPCNR Theatrical Review by John F. Bailey. March 31, 2012

The very LEGal Blonde (impetuously athletic and beyond perky Kelly Felthous) presented her opening arguments at Westchester Broadway Theatre Opening Night Friday night at Westchester Broadway Theatre Court representing WBT'S new Broadway 7-TONY revival, LEGALLY BLONDE. All Photos by John Vecchiolla, courtesy WBT
The WBT jury and enthusiastic gallery returned the intrepid barristerette-to-be and ingenuous cast a unanimous verdict of “Not Guilty of Impersonating a Lawyer,” with bravos and standing “O’s” for presenting an ambitious legal premise in Act One, followed by a hoot of a cross examination exposing a witness on the stand, worthy of Perry Mason in ACT II that returns a plea of Nolo Contendre from this critic and clears fitness icon Brooke in a most amusing manner.
In the process it skewers Harvard Law to the obvious delight of the audience. The delightful Ms. Felthous even has two hunk lawyers to choose from-- believable Christopher deProphetis in the role of Emmet who persuades Elle Woods to stay with her legal career or Warner Huntington III.
LEGALLY BLONDE definitely passes the bar!
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Do you have what it takes to be LEGALLY BLONDE? WBT LAUNCHES SPRING ROMP!
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WPCNR STAGE DOOR From Piia Haas. March 26,2012:

Kelly Felthous enrolls at Harvard in pursuit of a LEGALLY BLONDE degree this week (for 4 weeks only) at Westchester Broadway Theatre.Photo by Paul Lyden

ALL LEGALLED UP!
LB is a fresh and effervescent evening of musical fun, stylishly wrapped up in a smart pink bow! When Sorority girl, Elle Woods (Kelly D. Felthous) is dumped by her boyfriend, Warner Huntington III. (Robert Patric Ryan), she decides to get "serious" to win her boyfriend back. He is off to college to study law and wants a girlfriend who will be able to support him in his chosen career.
Elle, an underestimated blonde who doesn't take "no" for an answer, puts down the credit cards, hits the books, and with doggie Bruiser in tow, she sets out to go where no Delta Nu has gone before: Harvard Law. She discovers the true power behind being legally blonde, and proves that being true to yourself never goes out of style. This high-energy pop musical's fun and catchy score features music and lyrics by Laurence O'Keefe and Nell Benjamin, and a hysterical book by Heather Hach.
The blonde romp debuts this week for a 4 week run!
Note: The April 5 performance of LEGALLY BLONDE at Westchester Broadway Theatre will host a fundraising event to help raise awareness about the great work being done to support people affected by breast cancer.
Westchester Broadway Theatre will donate $13.00 for every regular full price ticket sold for the evening performance, to Support Connection. Call the box office at (914)592-2222, make a reservation and use the code “Legally Pink” or mention this Benefit. It’s your chance to support this great cause… enjoy the Musical, Legally Blonde and to wear your best pink outfit!
Support Connection Inc. is a not -for-profit organization that provides free, confidential support services and programs to people affected by breast and ovarian cancer. Founded in 1996, Support Connection is based in Yorktown Heights, N.Y., but through their toll-free hotline and website they serve people throughout the country. Services include: One-on-one peer counseling and support groups, offering women the opportunity to connect with other cancer survivors; Ongoing wellness classes; Holistic health workshops; Public educational programs; Information and referral services; A toll-free cancer information and support hotline (1-800-532-4290.) To learn more, visit www.supportconnection.org or call (914) 962-6402. Support Connection Breast and Ovarian Cancer Support: We’ve been there. We care.
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Who Could Ask for Anything More? ‘S WONDERFUL Fab Five Kicks Up Their Heels!
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WPCNR STAGE DOOR. Theatrical Review by John F. Bailey March 6, 2012:
Come on Cutes, get on your dancing boots and come dance with the “Fab Five”:

The delightful "Sutton Fosteresque" Dierdre Haren, ( far left) the comedic gamin-belter Stacey Harris (being held aloft), the sultry Mary Millben, (front right), the debonair manic Harold Lloyd look-alike, Blake Slaybaugh (back right) and the high flying leading man, Sean Watkins (second from left.
The effervescent stars of ‘S Wonderful give us a graduate course in Gershwin that romances, enhances,whisks us magically through the greatest love songs of all time. Here they are performing the intoxicating Just Another Rumba!
‘S Wonderful, opened at the Westchester Broadway Theatre Friday night, resuming for just the next three weeks Wednesday is more than a review, but five shows-in-a-show stringing out a Gershwin Galaxy of Hits in a Rhapsody in Blue from the songwriting team that captured love in song for decades. ‘S Wonderful, put together by Ray Roderick at the request of the Gershwin estate will make you feel like dancing again.
Note: All photos, courtesy Westchester Broadway Theatre by John Vecchiola. Some of his best by the way!
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BIG RIVER Explores Slavery, Roots of Black Music Thru Mark Twain’s 1850s South
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WPCNR ON THE AISLE. Theatrical Review by John F. Bailey. February 13, 2012:
BIG RIVER, a spirited, rousing Family Theatre Company production staged at Westchester Broadway Theatre was recognized by a host of Westchester County leaders on its premier week as WBT’s giveback to the community to celebrate Black History Month. The leaders were on hand to salute WBT owners and producers Bob Funking and Bill Stutler for turning over the theatre in February for the first time to present a production keyed to celebrate Black History Month.'

County Executive Robert Astorino and County Leaders Thank Westchester Broadway Theatre for creating the first Black History Month production, Big River, produced by the local family theatre group, Family Theatre Company.WPCNR Photo

The Family Theatre Company Cast of BIG RIVER playing through February 26 -- musical black history! Production Photos by Jordan Matter
Fittingly they chose John Fanelli the longtime major domo and pioneer of theatre programs for youth in the county at the Westchester Broadway Theatre, John Fanelli, (since then he has founded the educational Times Square Group theatre in New York, the Lighthouse Youth Theatre, and now the Family Theatre Company. The FTC production of the rolling,endearing Big River is based on Samuel Clemens breakthrough classics, The Adventures of Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Fin.
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Original CATS Magic Is Back in WPPAC’s Best Show ever! Young talent Wows!
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WPCNR ON THE AISLE. Theatrical Review by John F. Bailey. First Rush. December 17, 2011:
CATS now showing for just 9 more performances at White Plains Performing Arts Center is a must-see for those who love enthusiastic, give-it-their-all young talent who reach out to the audience, involve, enchant and create all the magic of this classic show.

From the operatically gifted personality of Devon Yates(above, right) delivering delightfully the enthralling epiphany of Memory as the stately Grizabella reprising the classic Betty Buckley performance, to the antics of the 17 stars of the future who bring CATS to life with the reverence, care, and smaltz it is known for, to the pull-all-the-switches effects of Andrew Gmoser’s lighting that dazzles the eye, stills and uplifts the soul, to the choreography that has the young men and lady felines romping, flying, leaping into the aisles, slinking in the shadows – this show running two hours gets it all purr-fectly right, precisely right.
The show directed by Jeremy Quinn, creatively, smoothly, energetic for every minute, with no cat napping on the set, is by far the best production the White Plains Performing Arts Center has ever done turning WPPAC stage for this limited run at least into what it could be and aspired to be and what the city fathers thought it would be when the theatre opened nine years ago.
Taking on a Broadway production that ran for 18 years on Broadway is no easy task.
Mounted in three weeks, at one third the cost of some previous productions the production is a miracle and a testimony to committed talent can do. The junkyard set is there, detailed and reminiscent of the original Broadway show, you will not be disappointed. The lighting by the magical Mr.Gmoser, the lighting and design mastermind for Westchester Broadway Theatre the last 23 years, is beyond description, but I will try. It is as if Mr.Gmoser has been turned loose to use every lighting device in the book. Never has WPPAC been able to execute such lightning douses, elegant fades and illusions as you will see on the WPPAC stage.
Why am I starting talking production? Because production makes CATS: it’s a show about atmosphere,mood, feelings, spirituality and mystery and without inspired technical effects the illusion of human beings in cat suits does not come across or work. Well in the Quinn production, the special effects, the live orchestra lead sensitively by Kurt Kelley,the musical director in his first Mainstage production at WPPAC, is perfectly nuanced in laying the mood bed for the songs of each individual cat. Compliments to the woodwinds: reed players Dan Pearson and Ericka Shlenkermann for their eloquent mood-intensifying solos.
On stage you will see Deuteronomy the cat appear out of thin air. Mr. Mistoffeles (Michael Clement, a “Marcel Marceau-like” light-on-his-feet dancer who charms) as the conjuring cat disappears before your very eyes with no trap doors.
If you are one of the few who have never seen CATS, this is an excellent introduction to the show, but assuming you don't know the story, it is based on Old Possum’s Book of Practical Cats by T.S. Eliot. The show introduces us to key personalities living in a band of Jellicle cats in a junkyard, outstandingly recreated by Scenic Designer Joseph Egan.
The show comes back between Christmas and New Year’s for matinees at 2PM on Wednesday, Thursday and Friday, the 28, 29 and 30th of December, and evening performances at 8, also on the 28,29, 30 of December.
More on this splendid show...to come.
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Once a Lady, Always a Fair Lady:Babiak spunky, Heart-Winning. Galantich, Dashing
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WPCNR STAGE RIGHT. Theatrical Review by John F. Bailey. October 3, 2011:
She is 56 years old and still has it goin’ on!
She’s My Fair Lady, the all-time best family musical (out of a time warp from 1956) arriving again with class, dignity, emotion, and such proper English you have to pay attention at Elmsford’s Westchester Broadway. She charmed young and old without dirty words, without sleaze, and with Broadway’s best-ever score. My date, Brenda Starr, said, “Every song’s a winner!”

Jennifer Babiak creates a spunky, Eliza Doolittle (who wants Mr. Higgins to Show Me) divinely reaches out and touches hearts and wins you over to her corner. You root for her. Tom Galantich is pompous Henry Higgins (who’s “grown accustomed to her face”). They're the odd couple who play out Pygmalion the spirited George Bernard Shaw satiric battle of the sexes musically in the Jay Lerner & Frederick Leowe classic revival production now receiving lovers of musical theater Wednedays through Sundays at the Westchester Broadway. Photos, Courtesy Westchester Broadway Theatre, by John Vecchiolla
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Pocketing the Chips: FBI ACCUSES Full Tilt Poker OF OPERATING PONZI SCHEME.
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WPCNR FBI WIRE. From the Federal Bureau of Investigation. September 21, 2011:
A motion was filed Tuesday amending the forfeiture and civil money laundering complaint in the matter of United States v. PokerStars et. al, announced Preet Bharara, U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York.
The proposed amended complaint alleges that Full Tilt Poker and its board of directors, including Raymond Bitar, Howard Lederer, Christopher Ferguson, and Rafael Furst, defrauded players by misrepresenting that their funds on deposit in online gambling accounts were safe, secure and available for withdrawal at any time.
In reality,the motion alleges, Full Tilt Poker did not maintain funds sufficient to repay all players, and in addition, the company used player funds to pay board members and other owners more than $440 million since April 2007. On April 15, 2011, the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of New York filed the original complaint against Full Tilt and two other Internet poker companies and unsealed a criminal indictment charging 11 defendants, including Bitar, with bank fraud, illegal gambling, and money laundering offenses.
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WBT OPENS MY FAIR LADY--The All-Time Musical for the Entire Family Returns
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WPCNR STAGE DOOR. From Piia Haas. September 20, 2011:
Westchester Broadway Theatre brings back perhaps the most popular musical of the 1950s, My Fair Lady, this week from September 21 to November 27, and a return run from December 28 to January 29.

Broadway's Greatest Love Story, based on George Bernard Shaw's classic play Pygmalion returns. The story revolves around Eliza Doolittle,(Jennifer Babiak) a coarse little peddler of flowers in Covent Garden who agrees to take speech lessons from phonetician Henry Higgins (Tom Galantich) in order to fulfill her dream of working in a flower shop. The musical of their love story is the stuff dreams are made of. Photo, Courtesy WBT by John Vecchiolla
Henry Higgins bets his friend, Colonel Pickering, that he can pass the common girl off as a society lady. Eliza succeeds so well, however, that she outgrows her social station and even and manages to become an indispensable part of Higgins' life. The musical features an award-winning score, with hits such as "I Could Have Danced All Night," "Wouldn't It Be Loverly" and "Get Me to the Church on Time."
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WP Performing Arts Center Announces Sept. 27 Gala Opening
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WPCNR STAGE DOOR. From Kathleen Davisson. August 25, 2011:
White Plains Performing Arts Center Board of Trustees and the Honorable Thomas M. Roach, Mayor of White Plains, announce that the annual Season Opening Celebration will be held at the theatre on Tuesday, September 27. The Chair of the evening’s event is Councilman John M. Martin, Esq., Vice President and General Counsel of All New York Title Agency, Inc.
The evening begins at 6:30pm with a wine and hors d’oeuvres reception. At 7:30 pm, the entertainment portion of the evening features a preview of the upcoming Mainstage Season and Conservatory Theatre productions. Musical selections include songs from: Spring Awakening, The Drowsy Chaperone, CATS, Lend me a Tenor, The Secret Garden and several surprise performances.
Tickets to the event are priced at $100. Sponsorship levels range from $1,000 to $5,000. Proceeds from the event will support the Conservatory Theatre, an educational youth theatre program of the White Plains Performing Arts Center. For more information about the event, ticket purchases and sponsorship opportunities, please access the theatre’s web site at www.wppac.com, visit or call the box office at (914) 328-1600.
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ALTAR BOYZ Impudent! Irreverent! Wired! Raise Roof at WBT Send-Up 90s BoyBands
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WPCNR LEFT AND CENTER. Theatre Review by John F. Bailey. August 13, 2011:
Never had the fan thrill of seeing a pop idol band in a touring concert within touching distance?

ALTAR BOYZ! THE FAITHFUL FIVE!
Luke! (Travis Morin), Mark!(Adam Cassel) Matthew! (Ralph Meitzler), Juan! (Patrick Ortiz),Abraham! (Ian Joseph) Photos Courtesy, Westchester Broadway Theatre by John Vecchiola
The irreverent, Evangelical Born-Again Christian Rock Idols are in Elmsford’s Westchester Broadway Theatre for the final stop on their saving-souls crusade across America – to save your soul and introduce you to God and Jesus one soul at a time nightly at Westchester Broadway Theatre. Luke! (Travis Morin), Mark!(Adam Cassel) Matthew! (Ralph Meitzler), Juan! (Patrick Ortiz),Abraham! (Ian Joseph)

The hilarious seriousness of this send-up-of-all-cult-bands everywhere comes out in over-the-top style when all of the “Faithful Five” perform the show-stopping, soul-uplifting, icon-invoking Number 918 that “Gets the Hell Out of You” using the power of God--beaming God’s power at you as Matthew, Mark, Luke, Juan and Abraham hold out cross, Bible, rosary beads, and the Star of David in sequence to save the last souls left to be converted in the WBT hall.
No matter how closed you are, or skeptical of going to an hour and a half, all-music all-the-time, satiric, outrageous joke after joke about faith and driving hard rock music from 80s pop, rap,funk, soul and Barry Manilow balladeering to deliver a message of aggressive evangelical zeal--they save all souls in the WBT house every night.
According to their "Soul Sensor DS 12" meter of God, a soul scoreboard that hangs high above the stage to count down how many in the audience are left to be converted by the end of the hour and a half “concert,” all souls in the house opening night were captured for the Lord and Jesus.
And they loved it: biz guys, power elite, birthday celebrants, 30 and 40-somethings, and seniors-in-training like me in suits, and the young and restless stood in standing ovation tribute to this irreverent work of redemption, starring five of the most energetic, dancingest young men you’ll see.
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Public Access Channel Expands Reach Through the Internet
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WPCNR MEDIA FRONTIER. From White Plains Public Access Television. August 5, 2011:
On Thursday, August 25, at 7:30 P.M., the White Plains public access channel will officially open its video website, www.WPcommunitymedia.org allowing Internet users worldwide to view the channel streamed live or select White Plains-produced programs for video on demand.

Jim Kenny, Executive Director of White Plains Public Access Television, demonstrates the prototype of WP Community Media at White Plains Public Access Headquarters Friday. The leadership and vision of the White Plains Cable Commission with the support and information-consciousness of the White Plains Common Council, has taken White Plains Public Access from video tape to digital, to streamed city meetings on the internet and now to all public access programming on the internet for the world to see in just three years. The official launch is August 25.

Pick your Program and Watch it with just a click -- from Ann Arbor to Samarkand --on the internet. Public Access TV will now reach White Plainsians wherever they may be in the world. Mr. Kenny cautions the website is in a testing and prototype soft opening stage now and not all kinks are worked out yet and viewers may experience inefficiencies. He promises the August 25 date will be the time to see it in action.
An informal ribbon-cutting will be held in the White Plains Cable Access TV studio in the Seasons Building at 4 Martine Avenue, White Plains.
On the evening of the event, the TV studio will be open for the public to tour, and access channel program producers who will be on hand to answer questions about their programs.
The White Plains Public Access channel has been in operation since 1982 but only viewable within the City of White Plains and in some surrounding communities on the Verizon cable system.
The WP Community Media service will allow anyone in the world with uncensored Internet access to see what is on the White Plains public access channel, and view the most recent programs of their choice appearing on the channel.
The launch, currently undergoing preliminary testing is a natural development.
Last summer, the White Plains government access channel began streaming on the White Plains City website and enabled Internet users to view any recorded meetings or events through a video archive.
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RIVERSPACE SEEKS NEW HOME FOR ITS SUMMER CAMP. FLOOD CLOSES HAYES
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WPCNR STAGE DOOR. From Riverspace, Nyack, New York. June 25, 2011:
The folks at Riverspace are very sad to announce an enormous amount of damage in the theater due to this week's floods in Nyack. Tragically, the building housing the theater was inundated with water and the theater itself was flooded from the stage all the way to lobby. Needless to say, we are heartbroken at this turn of events and are working hard to assess the situation.
Because of the extent of the damage, we know we won't be able to host the Helen Hayes Youth Theater camp as we usually do each summer - which was scheduled to begin July 5th. There are over 300 kids ages 4 to 18 who now desperately need to find a stage for their summer performances. If anyone can help them relocate, your help would be most sincerely appreciated! Please contact Danielle Rudess at helenhayesyt@aol.com
Our hearts go out to everyone who was impacted by the storm and floods this week. Please keep us in your thoughts as well. We will keep you updated of future developments.
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