Theater, Dance & Comedy November 2017

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Theater, Dance & Comedy November 2017

Annie Get Your Gun, Westchester Broadway Theatre – Thurs-Sun, 9/14-11/26: check times: Buffalo Bill’s Wild West Traveling Show and Irving Berlin’s classic score is the backdrop for this romantic gender duel from 1946 as sharpshooter Frank Butler meets his match in Annie Oakley. “Anything You Can Do, I Can Do Better”, “They Say It’s Wonderful”, “I Got the Sun in the Morning”, Doin’ What Comes Natur’lly ”, and the show-stopper “There’s No Business Like Show Business”. (One Broadway Plaza, Elmsford: www.broadwaytheatre.com)

Val Kilmer Live presents Cinema Twain, Tarrytown Music Hall – Fri, 11/3: 8pm: Val Kilmer introduces this screening of his one-man stage show about Mark Twain. Citizen Twain played to sell out houses in LA and you can see a recording of the play (and Val Kilmer too) here. Come for the screening, stay for the Q&A with Bruce Wayne… er… Val after the show. (13 Main St., Tarrytown; www.tarrytownmusichall.org)

Local! Nectar, Axial Theatre, Pleasantville – Fri-Sun, 11/3-19: The Axial Theater presents the world premiere of Katie Baldwin Eng’s Nectar. This poignant comedy follows a surprising overnight vigil of a mid-western woman and a French film star, both former mistresses of a legendary French writer who lies in a coma. The play, in staged readings, has already won numerous awards including the Hudson Valley Writers Center New Play Prize. (St. John’s Episcopal Church, 8 Sunnyside Avenue, Pleasantville; www.axialtheatre.org)

Capital Steps: Orange is the New Barack, Ridgefield Playhouse – Fri, 11/3: 8pm: Created in 1981 by a group of Senate staffers, this political-satire group specializes in song parodies and through various cast incarnations has recorded over 40 albums. (80 E. Ridge, Ridgefield, CT; www.ridgefieldplayhouse.org)

Local! Company, Arc Stages Pleasantville – Fri-Sun, 11/3-12: 8 & 2pm: Stephen Sondheim and George Furth’s 1970 musical about Bobby, a commitment-phobic New Yorker, who juggles the pros and cons of marriage with the advice of five married couples (also all neurotic) was nominated for 14 Tony Awards and won six, including Best Musical. The songs: “Marry Me a Little”, “The Ladies Who Lunch”, “Being Alive”, “Another Hundred People”, “Getting Married Today”, “You Could Drive a Person Crazy” and “Company”. (147 Wheeler Ave., Pleasantville; www.arcstages.org)

Special Black Friday Two-Fer: Buy 1, get 1 for Fri, 11/24: 8pm show! The Enlightenment of Mr. Mole, Schoolhouse Theater – Thurs- Sun, 11/9-26: 8pm, Sun: 3pm: B.H. Barry’s new adaptation of The Wind in the Willows, the classic 1908 children’s novel about anthropomorphised animals in Edwardian England by Kenneth Grahame. B. H. Barry is a Lifetime Achievement Tony Award-winning fight director and choreography in theater, film television, opera and ballet. (3 Owens Rd., Croton Falls; www.schoolhousetheater.org)

Bobby Collins, The Palace Stamford – Fri, 11/3: 8pm: This native New Yorker (Glen Oaks, Queens) started his career at Catch a Rising Star in NYC. He now lives in Santa Monica, CA and his routines mine the tensions between West Coast and East Coast cultural differences. He has opened for Frank Sinatra, Cher, Julio Iglesias, Tony Bennett and Dolly Parton. (61 Atlantic St., Stamford, CT; www.palacestamford.org)

Vic Dibitetto, Ridgefield Playhouse – Fri, 11/10: 8pm: The Italian Hurricane is best known for his “Bread and Milk” rant that garnered over 15 million hits on YouTube. (80 E. Ridge, Ridgefield, CT; www.ridgefieldplayhouse.org)

Jackie Mason, Tarrytown Music Hall – Sat, 11/11: 8pm: If you don’t know the difference between a Jew and a Gentile, (we mean really know) Jackie Mason can riff on the topic for quite some time. They don’t call him the King of Jewish Comedy for nothing! (13 Main St., Tarrytown; www.tarrytownmusichall.org)

Jim Breuer, Ridgefield Playhouse – Fri, 11/17: 8pm: One of the country’s top touring comedians, Breuer rose to prominence with his impressions of Joe Pesci and his character Goat Boy on Saturday Night Live. Comedy Central named him one of their “100 Greatest Standups of All Time” for his spot-on impressions and off the wall humor. (80 E. Ridge, Ridgefield, CT; www.ridgefieldplayhouse.org)

Chicago City Limits, The Palace Stamford – Sat, 11/18: 8pm: Here’s a cheap date. Just $19 will get you in to see this legendary NYC improv troupe. That’s right, they’ve been performing in NYC for 30 years and won the 2009 MAC Award for Best Comedy/Improv Group. ”They’re the funniest show in town.” – New York Post. (61 Atlantic St., Stamford, CT; www.palacestamford.org)

Presley, Perkins, Lewis and Cash, Paramount Hudson Valley – Sat, 11/18: 8pm: This show tells the story of what has been called “the greatest jam session of all time”. The night Elvis, Carl, Jerry Lee and Johnny all played together at Sun Records Studio. The songs? “Blue Suede Shoes”, “I Walk the Line”, “Great Balls of Fire”. (1008 Brown St., Peekskill; www.paramounthudsonvalley.org)

Nevermore, Westchester Circus Arts – Tarrytown Music Hall – Sat, 11/18: 8pm: A circus adaptation of Edgar Allen Poe’s “The Raven” tells the story of lost love and harrowing apparitions in a vivid series of aerial acrobatics and dream sequences. . (13 Main St., Tarrytown; www.tarrytownmusichall.org)

December

Garrison Keillor with musical guests Robin & Linda Williams, Tarrytown Music Hall – Fri, 12/1: 8pm: From the land where “all the kids are above average”, Garrison Keillor, host of the radio show A Prairie Home Companion and author the best seller Lake Wobegon Days stops in for a chat in Tarrytown with Americana music legends Robin and Linda Williams. (13 Main St., Tarrytown; www.tarrytownmusichall.org)

Local! What Fresh Hell Live! ChappPac: Fri, 12/1: 8pm: Comedians Margaret Ables and Amy Wilson bring their hit parenting podcast What Fresh Hell: Laughing in the Face of Motherhood to a live audience. Ables and Wilson combine their twenty-year friendship, their comic sensibilities and their usually completely opposite approaches to parenting, for a ‘Mom’s Night Out’ full of games, laughs, and maybe even a little parenting advice. (480 Bedford Road, Chappaqua; www.

The Liar, Armonk Players – Fri-Sun, 12/1-3 & Thurs-Sat 12/7-9: Pia Haas directs David Ives, The Liar, at Armonk’s Whippoorwill Hall. Ive’s adaption of Pierre Corneille’s 17^th century comedy, is an urban romance stuffed with alternative facts, mistaken identities, duels and intrigue. Like Corneille’s original, the comedy plays off the title character, Dorante’s compulsive lying. Timely? Ives is best known for his Tony-nominated Venus in Fur and for his adaptations of French comedies of manners such as Moliere’s The Misanthrope. (North Castle Public Library, 19 Whippoorwill Rd., East, Armonk; www.armonkplayers.org)

Suzanne Farrell Ballet, Performing Arts Center – Sun, 12/3: 3pm: George Balanchine’s most celebrated muse, Suzanne Farrell, in her company’s final performance ever, serves up a pageant of the choreographer’s handpicked favorites. Including classic works of the canon and iconic works created especially for her by Mr. Balanchine. The NYT’s praised the company for “tackling arduous roles… with energy, scale, nuance and musical sophistication seldom found anywhere.” (735 Anderson Hill Rd., Purchase; www.artscenter.org)

The Hunchback of Notre Dame, WPPAC – Fri-Sun, 12/22-1/14/18: 7 & 2pm: This musical is based on the Victor Hugo novel and showcases songs from the Disney film featuring music and lyrics from the Theater, Dance & Comedy November 2017 Academy Award-winning composing team of Alan Menken and Stephen Schwartz. Watch Quasimodo pine for the beautiful gypsy Esmeralda and save the gypsies from the devious Dom Claude Frolio. (White Plains Performing Arts Center, 11 City Place, 3rd Floor, White Plains; www.wppac.com)