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The Negro Baseball Leagues
Baseball may be the national pastime, but for nearly a century – from 1867 to 1955 – it was a segregated pastime. Before Jackie Robinson broke the color line with the Brooklyn Dodgers, talented black baseball players were relegated to the Negro Leagues – which grew to be one of the most fabled sports organizations ever created. An exhibition of photos and memorabilia called “The National Pastime in Black and White: The Negro Baseball Leagues” will be at the Morris Museum through August 14.
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Ten Percent of Molly Snyder
A simple trip to the Department of Motor Vehicles to fix a typo on a driver’s license sets off a chain of bureaucratic mishaps that nearly destroys the life and career of the fictional Molly Snyder, the heroine of a new play called “Ten Percent of Molly Snyder”. World premiere production at New Jersey Rep in Long Branch, through June 26th.
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Industrial Jazz
Somewhere between order and chaos, structure and freedom, melody and noise, is Industrial Jazz, an 11 piece ensemble that performs at 12 Miles West Theater in Bloomfield on June 17th.
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Happy Hour
A topless bar in the desert, a gambling ordinance, and a ticking clock — that’s the stuff of “Happy Hour”, the new play at 12 Miles West Theater in Bloomfield. Based on a true story, it explores the extremes people will go to in order to achieve their idea of the American Dream. Plays through June 12th.
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Harmonium Choral Society
The Harmonium Choral Society celebrates its 25th birthday with a concert about the joy of, and the need for, singing – with a repertoire that spans multiple centuries, styles, and languages.
Visit www.harmonium.org
Photograph: Harmonium Conductor Anne Matlack |
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Cape May New Jersey State Film Festival
The Cape May New Jersey State Film Festival is dedicated exclusively to the support and presentation of creative, challenging, groundbreaking, film/video works by New Jersey filmmakers, with a special emphasis on promoting and encouraging students and young people. This year in Ocean City from June 3 through June 5.
Visit www.njstatefilmfestival.com |
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First Look
The New Jersey Center for Visual Arts in Summit is showcasing three emerging artists who use photography to create surreal, unreal, images – like Lorraine Regan of Basking Ridge, who makes random triple exposures that comment on fashion, power, and the illusion of beauty. Through June 10th.
Visit www.njcva.org
Photograph: Marilyn in the Sky by Lorraine Regan |
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Edward Weston
Photographer Edward Weston pioneered a new way of looking at the world around us, through his camera. 80 of his best images are now on view at the Montclair Art Museum, through May 15th.
Visit www.montclairartmuseum.org
Photograph: Pepper, 1927 |
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Anton Del Forno
Anton Del Forno tours the world as a classical guitarist. But his first musical life was as an electric guitar player in his own rock band, “The Orphans” – having been inspired as a teenager by the Beatles. He says he’s still a Beatles fan, but his current repertoire favors works by Villa-Lobos, Bach and Haydn as well as his own original compositions. Anton Del Forno will perform at Dante Hall in Atlantic City on May 7th.
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Esmeralda
The tragic tale of the Hunchback of Notre Dame is told entirely through music and movement, in the New Jersey Ballet’s production of “Esmeralda”, in which character is revealed through choreography – whether it be the French aristicracy, evil clerics, wild gypsies, or the hunchback himself, Quasimodo. April 30th at BergenPAC in Englewood.
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Pink Martini
They describe themselves as a cross between a 1930s Cuban dance orchestra, a classical chamber music ensemble, a Brazilian marching band and Japanese film noir. The sophisticated and exotic 12-piece “little orchestra” Pink Martini performs in New Jersey April 21st through 23rd, at NJPAC and the Patriot’s Theater in Trenton.
Visit www.njsymphony.org and www.pinkmartini.com |
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Carol Channing
Carol Channing defines the phrase “Broadway legend,” and at the age of 83, she’s still going strong. Ms. Channing was the original Lorelei Lee in “Gentlemen Prefer Blondes”, and made theatrical history (plus a Tony Award) for her portrayal of Dolly Levi in “Hello, Dolly” – a role she has since played all over the globe more than 5,000 times. She presents her one-woman show with pianist Glen Roven at McCarter Theater on April 22nd.
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The Bobs
The Bobs, who created their own brand of “new wave” a cappella singing more than 20 years ago, are still reinventing themselves, with new members, and new songs, but the same screwball approach to music making. At the Patriots Theater in Trenton on April 7th.
Visit www.bobs.com and www.thewarmemorial.com |
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