Novelist Amy Shearn authored today’s post.
(UPDATE: This show has been postponed until Sunday, May 16th at 2:30 PM)
At the Wilmette Theatre, North Shore residents and beyond will have an opportunity that would make seven-year-old me shriek with joy. No, it’s not a pet unicorn or a canopy bed: it’s a performance by the talented show business veteran Andrea McArdle, who created the role of Annie in the Broadway musical Annie in 1977.
Andrea McArdle
Andrea was kind enough to chat with me recently about her upcoming performance, her illustrious career in show business, and a certain spunky orphan named Annie.
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The other day at the Highland Park Poetry Open MIC, we were discussing the importance of meter and rhyme. One gentleman suggested, “that popular music is all about meter and rhyme. Like Cole Porter.”
Fred Astaire stars and Vincente Minnelli directed this 1953 classic
Some believe the Porter’s productive years of 1934 through 1956 were the golden age of popular music and popular culture. If you were around to enjoy this era, or just want to learn what it was all about, Susan Benjamin presents programs on two giants of the time: Fred Astaire and Vincent Minnelli. Both programs will take place at the Wilmette Theatre.
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Young dancers from the American Indian Center
Cabin fever comes early when the temperature nears single digits. So on Sunday, January 3, Ageless went to the Nichols Concert Hall in Evanston for the first of four free Music Institute of Chicago programs in the series, “Paving the Way to America’s Cultural Identity.”
We were not alone. More than 250 people shared the conversation, photography, music, drumming, dancing and film that made up the event called At the Core of Discovery: Lewis, Clark, and the Native American Encounter
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