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The New Fall Season: Back to the Future
As summer memories fade like footprints in the sand its time to catch your breath and focus on the hectic New Season on Broadway as no fewer than 19 new productions of musicals and plays head our way
The shows range from a Solo
The Encounter
to a full scale Technicolor extravaganza
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
And theater history is already in the making:
Bette Midler in Hello, Dolly has set new Day 1 ticket sales record at $9million
See Editor’s notes below for a full accounting of these new productions and a glimpse into the Spring season coming up
Stick Around! Jeanne Lieberman, Publisher Editor’s note:
BROADWAY DIMMED ITS LIGHTS IN MEMORY OF ICONIC PLAYWRIGHT EDWARD ALBEE WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 21ST at 7:45pm The Broadway community mourns the loss of three-time Tony Award® and three-time Pulitzer Prize winning playwright, producer, and director, Edward Albee, who passed away on September 16th at age 88. He was one of the foremost playwrights of his generation. “Edward Albee was one of our most influential and most honored American playwrights and a master of words, with nearly 30 plays on Broadway. The outpouring of accolades and personal memories being shared since his death are a tribute to a dramatist who deeply affected audiences and inspired so many fellow writers with his brilliant dialogue and indelible characters. An original voice, Albee created some of the most complex and compelling works presented on stage in the past six decades. In recent years Broadway audiences have been fortunate to see new expressions of his work through notable revivals of his most treasured dramas. Albee will be missed by those who knew him and all who were influenced by him; but his iconic works will continue to challenge and entertain audiences whenever they are presented on Broadway and beyond,” said Charlotte St. Martin, President of the Broadway League. He was best known for his first full-length play and Broadway debut in 1962 with Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, a Tony Award® -winning production (1963) which also became a 1966 film starring Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton. Albee received Pulitzer Prizes for A Delicate Balance (1967), Seascape (1975) and Three Tall Women (1994). Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? was selected for the 1963 Pulitzer Prize by the award’s drama jury, but was overruled by the advisory committee, which elected not to give a drama award at all. The jury subsequently resigned in protest. Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? is considered a modern theatre classic. Various award-winning Broadway revivals have been staged including a 1976 production starring Colleen Dewhurst and Ben Gazarra; a 2005 production starring Kathleen Turner and Bill Irwin; and a 2012 production starring Amy Morton and Tracy Letts. In addition to the Tony Award for Best Play for Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (1963), he received the Tony Award for Best Play for The Goat, or Who is Sylvia? (2002) and was the recipient of a Special Tony Award® Tony Lifetime Achievement Award (2005.) Beyond his three Tony Awards including one for lifetime achievement, and six Tony nominations, he won three Pulitzer Prizes and was nominated for two others. Albee is the recipient of many distinguished honors for his work including being the recipient of Kennedy Honors and the National Medal of the Arts, both in 1996. Over five decades, Albee wrote more than two dozen other plays, many of which were produced on Broadway including Tiny Alice (1964), A Delicate Balance (1966), All Over (1971), Seascape (1975), and more. For about 10 years, New York critics and audiences had mostly snubbed Albee. With the feeling he belonged to an earlier, artier generation that took its provocative intellectual postures far too seriously But when the Signature theater produced Three Tall Women in 1993 he was back in style. He was not shy abut talking sarcastically about that period. In 1967, the playwright established the Edward F. Albee Foundation, which allows writers and visual artists to have a retreat in Montauk on Long Island in New York. The foundation maintains the William Flanagan Memorial Creative Persons Center (better known as "The Barn") as a residence for writers and visual artists A few years ago, before undergoing major surgery, Albee penned a short statement to be published at the time of his death: "To all of you who have made my being alive so wonderful, so exciting and so full, my thanks and all my love," he wrote. Albee's longtime partner, sculptor Jonathan Thomas, died in 2005.
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September Saturday 17 Light Keepers Behind the Scenes Tour 9 am – Follow one of our present day Lighthouse Keepers on his rounds. This bottom to top tour takes you from the auxiliary generator and the Light Keepers workshop in the basement of the Keeper’s Quarters to the beacon in the lantern room of the lighthouse tower. Learn how lighthouse Keepers in the 1860’s to 2016 maintained the light. Includes a tour of the Lens Building which houses our original first order Fresnel Lens. $15 for FILPS Members/$20 for non-members – Reservations required. Limit 12 people. Saturday 17 Lantern Light Tour 6:30 pm – 7:30 pm (tours leave at 15 minute intervals)-Meet in Field #5 RMSP. Enjoy an escorted lantern light walk along the beach & through the swale as stationed interpreters unfold the stories of the United States Life Saving Service & Fire Island Light Station. $10 per person – Reservations required. Dress for the weather and bring a flashlight for your walk back to the parking field. The Tower will remain open until 9 pm at regular fees. October Saturday 8 Light Keepers Behind the Scenes Tour 9 am – Follow one of our present day Lighthouse Keepers on his rounds. This bottom to top tour takes you from the auxiliary generator and the Light Keepers workshop in the basement of the Keeper’s Quarters to the beacon in the lantern room of the lighthouse tower. Learn how lighthouse Keepers in the 1860’s to 2016 maintained the light. Includes a tour of the Lens Building which houses our original first order Fresnel Lens. $15 for FILPS Members/$20 for non-members – Reservations required. Limit 12 people. Saturday 22 Ghost Stories & Legends of Fire Island 7 pm—On the Lighthouse Terrace. Listen to tales of eerie happenings along the Barrier Beach. Dress warmly; bring blankets and flashlights. Free. Come early to visit the “Spooky Boat House!” Tower Tours will be available from 4 pm – 6 pm at the regular fee. November Friday 11 Thank you to all our United States Veterans! Free Tower Tours during regular operating hours to all veterans who served in the military. Saturday 26 Tree Trimming Event 10 am – 3 pm. Kick off the holiday season by helping us decorate our holiday tree. Bring a handmade ornament relating to the sea, nature or the Lighthouse to hang on our tree. Free hot chocolate and cookies. Saturday 26 Thanksgiving Weekend Evening Tower Tour 4 pm - Experience the Lighthouse at night while working off some of those holiday calories. Bring a flashlight for your walk back to the parking field. $15 for FILPS Members/$20 for non-members – Reservations Required. Sunset 4:29 pm. December Saturday 10 Light Keepers Behind the Scenes Tour 9 am – Follow one of our present day Lighthouse Keepers on his rounds. This bottom to top tour takes you from the auxiliary generator and the Light Keepers workshop in the basement of the Keeper’s Quarters to the beacon in the lantern room of the lighthouse tower. Learn how lighthouse Keepers in the 1860’s to 2016 maintained the light. Includes a tour of the Lens Building which houses our original first order Fresnel Lens. $15 for FILPS Members/$20 for non-members – Reservations required. Limit 12 people. Saturday 10 14th Annual Reenactment of the Flying Santa 11:30 am to 12:30 pm– Relive this historic event with us. Santa arrives at the Lighthouse. Great photo opportunity! Come early. Free Call (631) 661-4876 to make all reservations The Lighthouse and museum is open all year round. Fall hours are 10am – 5pm– tower is available to climb from 10am – 5pm weekends and 1pm-4pm weekdays based on volunteer availability. All parking is in Field #5 of the Robert Moses State Park. Tower tours are $7 adults, $4 seniors & Children under 12 (children must be 42” tall to climb). Foot ware is required to climb. ` The Fire Island Lighthouse Preservation Society 4640 Captree Island, Captree Island, New York 11702 www.fireislandlighthouse.com (631) 661-4876 Follow us on Facebook **Programs and times are subject to change. Please visit our web site for updated information.**
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