I started this blog with one daughter, kept it up with the other, to spend time together doing something we enjoyed.
However, things change and people evolve. My daughters are older, busier, and not as interested in writing.
From now on this blog will be mostly mom with occasional contributions from my daughters and maybe even my husband.
Nothing else will change. We'll still focus on sharing fun places to go, fun things to do, and more, and we would  still love to hear your views too

Sunday, July 17, 2016

Sunday Scoop Week of 7/17/16 - What's Happening This Week or Coming Up Soon

Upcoming at the Lakewood BlueClaws
First Energy Park
2 Stadium Way
Lakewood, NJ

Monday July 18  - See ZOOtopia on the Big Board

The RWJBarnabas HealthMonday Night Movie Series continues on Monday night withZOOtopia on the big board beginning at 7:30 pm. Gates open at 6:30 pm and we'll have a petting zoo too!

Admission is just $5 for adults and $3 for kids ages 5-12. Children 4 and under are admitted free.

Fans are encouraged to bring blankets and can watch the movie right on the field!

For more information, click here.


PokeClaws Night July 21st

The Pokemon craze is coming to FirstEnergy Park when the BlueClaws Crusher Pokemon will be facing the Kannapolis Intimida-tor Pokemon Thursday, July 21st as part PokeClaws Night, which starts at 7:05 pm

Fun includes a Fossil Pokemon Dig and in-game promotions like Shorlax Sumo, Rattata Chasing Cheese, Kangaskhan Sack Race, Exeggcute Egg Race, and Guess That Pokemon. Battle Ash Ketchem on Nintendo 64 on the concourse, and so much more. Gotta catch them all!



Next Saturday July 23 - The BRUCEClaws are Back

Join the fun on July 23rd as the BRUCEClaws are back! It's Bruce Springsteen Appreciation Night as the BlueClaws become the BruceClaws. BruceClaws Night is presented by Kean University.

The E-Street Shuffle will play a two-hour Springsteen set in the Coors Light WRAT Trap from 5 pm - 7 pm (gates open one hour early). We'll have music, promotions, and other fun as well throughout the game as we salute The Boss! 



Diamond Dallas Page Autograph Signing on July 24th

Wrestling legend Diamond Dallas Page will be at FirstEnergy Park for a special autograph signing at our July 24th, 1:05 pm game thanks to Atlantic Physical Therapy Center.

Page is a former WCW Heavyweight Champion and a WWF European Champion too!

It's Sunday so Kids Eat Free (ShopRite), Kids Run the Bases, $2 Coronas for adults, and fans can bring their dogs!

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Upcoming at the State Theatre New Jersey
15 Livingston Avenue
New Brunswick, NJ

July 19
Free Summer Movie - E.T. - The Extra Terrestrial

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110 Schank Road
Freehold, NJ

Friday, Saturday, & Sunday July 22, 23, & 24
PressPlayNJ – in iPlay America’s Event Center
PressPlayNJ comes to iPlay America’s Event Center, July 22, 23, & 24, giving fans the chance to get up-close and personal with today's top social media and musical talent. This year’s lineup is slated to include Christian Leave, Wes Tucker, Cody Herbinko, Joey Kidney, Tina Woods, Just Jamiie, Drew Phillips, Madeline Phillips, Sigh Mike, Dakota Brooks, Cody Ryle, Taylor Baxter, and Steffan Argus.  Ticket prices and packages range from $25 to $250.
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Art Making at the New York Botanical Gardens
2900 Southern Boulevard
Bronx, NY

Visit the Adventure Garden at the New York Botanical Garden on July 24 for drop-in art-making workshops led by CMA Teaching Artists inspired by the NYBG's summer exhibition, Impressionism, American Gardens on Canvas!

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Recreation at Philly Parks This Summer

RECREATION

Philadelphia Freedoms Pop-Up Tennis Clinics – Team tennis introduction for boys and girls, Saturday July 30, 2pm at The Oval and Sunday, July 31, 2pm at Franklin Square.

Wheel Fun Boat Rentals at FDR Park – Rent pedal boats and kayaks to take around the park’s natural lake, every day starting mid-June, 1500 Pattison Ave.

Wheel Fun Bike Rentals – Rent bicycles, kids bikes, surreys, choppers and tandem bikes to cruise around FDR Park and Boathouse Row, daily 10am-sunset.

Kids@Play Series at Gold Star Park - Featuring martial arts, dance, and nature programs for young children, August 20September 17, 10am-12pm, 613 Wharton St.

Kids Night at Jefferson Square – Neighborhood play dates on Wednesday evenings, 300 Washington Square.

Guided Kayak Trips on Schuylkill River – Explore the river between Walnut Street and Fairmount Water Works and also around Manayunk, multiple dates, $20 per person for members of Fairmount Park Conservancy ($40 non-members), ages 8 and up.

Yoga Classes at Lemon Hill – All-levels yoga classes in partnership with Yoga and Movement Sanctuary, Saturdays throughSeptember 17, 9am, Sedgley Drive and N Lemon Hill Drive (free for members of Fairmount Park Conservancy, $10 non-members).

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Kelsey Theatre Announces Upcoming 2016/2017 Season
1200 Old Trenton Road
West Windsor, NJ

Miss Saigon – Special Event
Landing onstage to get the season off to a flying start. 

Neil Simon’s Jake's Women
Struggling novelist, Jake, is more successful with fiction than with life.

In the Heights
Before there was Hamilton, there was In The Heights.

The Odd Couple – Female Version
Unger and Madison are at it again in Neil Simon’s female update of his comic classic!

Roebling – The Story of The Brooklyn Bridge                     
The tale of the men who built the Brooklyn Bridge and the woman who finished it.

Babes in Toyland
Toyland, toyland, little girl and boy land while you dwell within it you are ever happy there.

Billy Elliot, The Musical
If you can dream it, you can do it!

Unnecessary Farce
Two Cops. Three Crooks. Eight Doors. One Farce Awakens!

God of Carnage
A comedy of manners… without the manners!

Boeing, Boeing
Love is in the air… and coming in for a CRASH landing!

To Kill a Mockingbird
You never really know a man until you stand in his shoes and walk around in them

Wonderland
A whole new adventure for the Alice in us all by Frank Wildhorn.

Blood Wedding
Choose will. Choose fate. Choose honor. Choose disgrace. Choose life. Choose death … Choose …

The Boy From Oz
We’re going down under for this one! (to Australia we mean).

Disney’s The Little Mermaid
This time we are going down under, under the sea that is.

The Glass Menagerie
Memories as fragile as glass are tossed into the air in Tennessee Williams' masterpiece.

Measure for Measure
Whorehouses and nunneries, betrothals and beheadings – welcome to Vienna!


The Kids Shows include Beloved Prey; The Princess & the Pea; The House at Pooh Corner; and Biscuit!

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For more information go to  http://www.kelseyatmccc.org/ or call 609-570-3333
************************************************************************************************************** Du Barry Was a Lady Added to Musicals Tonight 2016/2017 Season
The Lion Theatre
410 W. 42nd St.
New York, NY

Du Barry Was a Lady (1939) has music and lyrics by Cole Porter and starred Bert LahrEthel Merman and Betty Grable. In 1943, the musical was made into a movie starring Red Skelton, Lucille Ball and Gene Kelly. Songs include - Friendship;Well, Did You Evah!Give Him the Ooh-La-LaIt Ain't Etiquette; But in the Morning, No!; Katie Went to Haiti.

The story is about an ordinary fellow who dreamed he was a king and irresistible to women - and he had funny hair.  Who knew?

March 28, 2017 – April 9, 2017
Tuesday           Wednesday       Thursday           Friday               Saturday          Sunday
28 (7:30)         29 (2:00/7:30)    30 (7:30)        31 (2:00)           1 (2:00/7:30)     2 (2:00)
 4 (7:30)           5 (2:00/7:30)      6 (7:30)          7 (2:00)            8 (2:00/7:30)    9 (2:00)

Their 19th season  will also include Funny Face; Hoi Polloi; Louisiana Purchase; Mr. Wonderful

For more information go to www.musicalstonight.org or contact Mel Miller at musicalstonight@aol.com or (212) 362-5620
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News from Boneau/Bryan-Brown

ATLANTIC THEATRE 2016/2017 SEASON PRODUCTIONS

WORLD PREMIERE MUSICAL FROM
ITAMAR MOSES and DAVID YAZBEK,
DIRECTED BY DAVID CROMER

WORLD PREMIERE PLAYS FROM DAVID MAMET and PAOLA LÁZARO

WORLD PREMIERE PLAY WITH MUSIC FROM GEORGE BRANT

NEW YORK PREMIERE BY CLARE LIZZIMORE
DIRECTED BY GAYE TAYLOR UPCHURCH
STARRING GOLDEN GLOBE AWARD NOMINEE
REBECCA HALL

ATLANTIC FOR KIDS MUSICAL

FROM ROBERT LOPEZ AND ADAM KOPLAN

World Premiere Play with Music
MARIE AND ROSETTA
By George Brant
Directed by Neil Pepe
Linda Gross Theater
August-October

World Premiere Musical
THE BAND’S VISIT
Book by Itamar Moses
Music and Lyrics by David Yazbek
Directed by David Cromer
Based on the screenplay by Eran Kolirin
Linda Gross Theater
November-January

World Premiere Play
TELL HECTOR I MISS HIM
By Paola Lázaro
Atlantic Stage 2
January-February


A WORLD PREMIERE PLAY BY DAVID MAMET
Directed by Neil Pepe
Linda Gross Theater
February-April

New York Premiere Play
ANIMAL
By Clare Lizzimore
Directed by Gaye Taylor Upchurch
Starring Golden Globe Award nominee Rebecca Hall
Atlantic Stage 2
May-June

2016-2017 ATLANTIC FOR KIDS SEASON

1001 NIGHTS: A LOVE STORY ABOUT LOVING STORIES
Music and Lyrics by Robert Lopez
Book by Adam Koplan and Robert Lopez
Directed by Adam Koplan
Fall 2016

ATLANTIC THEATER COMPANY 2016-2017 SEASON

World Premiere Play with Music
MARIE AND ROSETTA
By George Brant
Directed by Neil Pepe
Linda Gross Theater
August-October

A huge influence on Elvis Presley, Johnny Cash, Ray Charles and Jimi Hendrix, Sister Rosetta Tharpe was a legend in her time, bringing fierce guitar playing and swing to gospel music. Tharpe was the queen of ‘race records’ in the 30’s and 40’s, who performed mornings at churches and evenings at the Cotton Club, who was a big enough star to fill a baseball stadium for her third wedding, but ended up buried in an unmarked grave in Philadelphia. Marie and Rosetta chronicles her first rehearsal with a young protégée, Marie Knight, as they prepare to embark on a tour that would establish them as one of the great duet teams in musical history. 

World Premiere Musical
THE BAND’S VISIT
Book by Itamar Moses
Music and Lyrics by David Yazbek
Directed by David Cromer
Based on the screenplay by Eran Kolirin
Linda Gross Theater
November-January

An Egyptian Police Band arrives in Israel to play a concert. After a mix-up at the border, they are sent to a remote village in the middle of the desert. With no bus until morning and no hotel in sight, these unlikely travelers are taken in by the locals. Under the spell of the desert sky, their lives become intertwined in the most unexpected ways. A new musical based on the critically acclaimed screenplay which received 36 major international awards.

The Band’s Visit is developed and produced with support from the National Endowment for the Arts, the Laurents/Hatcher Foundation, and the National Alliance for Musical Theatre’s National Fund for New Musicals.

World Premiere Play
TELL HECTOR I MISS HIM
By Paola Lázaro
Atlantic Stage 2
January-February

You're in Puerto Rico. Old San Juan. You're a tourist, you walk down the stairs of this beautiful old fort built by the Spaniards. When you reach the bottom, you realize you're in the hole, a slum. Welcome to La Perla, the barrio and the underbelly that lies under the tourism and behind the fort walls. You spend some days there, you don't want to leave. Oh no, you're addicted to the beauty, the women and the drugs. A raw and compelling play about searching for first love, found family, and hope.

Paola Lázaro is Atlantic’s 2016-2017 Tow playwright-in-residence, supported generously by The Tow Foundation.

A WORLD PREMIERE PLAY BY DAVID MAMET
Directed by Neil Pepe
Linda Gross Theater
February-April

Atlantic’s co-founder David Mamet returns with a brand new play written specifically for Atlantic’s ensemble.

New York Premiere Play
ANIMAL
Starring Golden Globe Award nominee Rebecca Hall
By Clare Lizzimore
Directed by Gaye Taylor Upchurch
Atlantic Stage 2
May-June

Rachel has it all: marriage, house, career.  So why does she suddenly have this creeping feeling? Did she leave something behind? Or is there something in the walls…? Her husband thinks she needs time; her psychiatrist suggests positive thinking. But then the visions start. A darkly comic play about the underside of domesticity, the complexity of the brain in chaos, and the thin line between sinking and survival.

2016-2017 ATLANTIC FOR KIDS SEASON

NEW YORK PREMIERE MUSICAL
1001 NIGHTS: A LOVE STORY ABOUT LOVING STORIES
Music and Lyrics by Robert Lopez
Book by Adam Koplan and Robert Lopez
Directed by Adam Koplan
Fall 2016

This newly reimagined production of 1001 Nights features early songs by Oscar, Grammy, Tony and Emmy Award winner Robert Lopez (Avenue QThe Book of Mormon, and Disney’s Frozen). In this celebration of brainy imagination over brawn, a princess uses her wits to save a kingdom from an evil decree as she spins tale after tale for a narrow-minded king. This playful adaptation of the "Arabian Nights" fairy tales is recommended for ages six and up, but welcomes children of all ages!
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News from Michelle Tabnick Communications

to perform at the
Verbier Festival
July 23 & 25, 2016

MasterVoices at the 2016 Verbier Festival:

July 23, 2016 - Gábor Takács-Nagy conducts the Verbier Festival Orchestra and MasterVoices in an evening dedicated to Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. The wunderkind Wolfgang demonstrated his precocious talent in his First Symphony, composed when he was only eight. Twenty-four years later he delivered his final symphony, and possibly his most famous - Symphony N°41, the "Jupiter", a fitting symphonic swansong.  MasterVoices will join the Verbier Festival Chamber Orchestra and its Music Director Gábor Takács-Nagy for a performance of Mozart's Great Mass in C minor, K. 427, featuring Soprano Emöke Baráth, Mezzo-soprano Ann Hallenberg, Tenor Bernard Richter, and Baritone Stefan Genz.

July 25, 2016 - Charles Dutoit conducts MasterVoices in a full-length performance of the French opera, Bizet's Carmen. The score, with its drama and power, features some of the most beautiful pages ever written for mezzo-soprano, while the opéra comique genre (which alternates between spoken and sung dialogues) calls for exceptional acting skill.  Named the "Carmen of her generation" by the San Francisco Sentinel, American mezzo-soprano Kate Aldrich has triumphed in the role around the world and will star in the leading role once again at the Verbier Festival.  The July 25 performance will also feature Dmytro Popov, Laurent Naouri, Sylvia Schwartz, Julie Pasturaud, Florie Valiquette, François Piolino, Francis Dudziak, Jean-Luc Ballestra, David Shipley, and the children's chorus from Ecole de Chant Du Haut-Valais (Music Director, Hansruedi Kämpfen).
For more information or to buy tickets, visit https://www.verbierfestival.com/en/artiste/choeur-master-voices/.

MasterVoices' performances on July 23 and 25 will be available for livestream and on-demand viewing on medici.tv: http://www.medici.tv/#!/verbier-festival-on-medicitv.
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South Street Seaport Museum
announces
Day Sails & Charters:
Sail Pioneer!

South Street Seaport Museum announces Sail Pioneer! See New York's skyline the way it was meant to be seen, from the water. Board the 1885 schooner Pioneer and take a two-hour sail in New York Harbor. Available Thursdays-Sundays through October, guests board Pioneerat Pier 16 in the South Street Seaport and set off to see the sights of New York aboard this authentic historic sailing ship. Bring your family for an afternoon sail, a date for a sunset sail, or just yourself to enjoy history at sea. Bring a picnic and a bottle of wine to make it a truly unforgettable trip. No crowds, no cars, and no chaos; instead get a taste of the romance and adventure of the 'Age of Sail' aboard Pioneer.  Regular admission is $32, and $28 for seniors and children under 12. Private charters of Pioneerare also available.  For more information or to make a reservation visit https://southstreetseaportmuseum.org/visit/street-of-ships/pioneer/.
For Charter information email charters@seany.org
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News from DKC/O&M

FROM THE CREATOR OF FORBIDDEN BROADWAY COMES
SPAMILTON
A HILARIOUS NEW MUSICAL CELEBRATING (AND ROASTING)
THE BROADWAY BLOCKBUSTER

From Gerard Alessandrini, the mastermind behind Forbidden Broadway, comes Spamiltona sneak peek into his ongoing obsession with Lin-Manuel Miranda’s Hamilton. This summer, for 18 performances only, audiences will have the opportunity to share inAlessandrini's madness, at the Triad (158 West 72nd Street), for an evening that celebrates, roasts and eviscerates the Broadway blockbuster. The first performance will take place on Tuesday, July 19, 2016.

Ticket for Spamilton are $49, plus a 2 drink minimum. For a complete performance schedule and to purchase tickets, please click here:http://www.triadnyc.com/buy-tickets.
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DIGITAL LOTTERY ANNOUNCED FOR THE FIRST-EVER BROADWAY REVIVAL OF ANDREW LLOYD WEBBER’S ICONIC MUSICAL
CATS
AT THE NEIL SIMON THEATRE

Producers The Shubert Organization and The Nederlander Organization announced today the launch of an online ticket lottery for the first-ever Broadway revival of Andrew Lloyd Webber’s iconic musical, CATS. The CATS Digital Lottery will open daily at 10:00 a.m. EST and 8:30 a.m. for matinee performances, beginning Thursday, July 14, 2016, for entrants to win a limited number of $40 same day tickets to that day’s performance(s) by clicking hereSee below for rules and regulations. The CATS digital lottery is powered by Broadway Direct.

      Rules and regulations for the new digital lottery are as follows:
·         A limited number of tickets for each performance will be sold via digital lottery.
·         The CATS Digital Lottery will open at 10:00 am EST and will remain open until 3 pm EST for evening performances. For two-show days, the Lottery will open at 12 pm and close at 3 pm.  For matinee performances, the Lottery will open at 8:30 am and close at 11 am.
·         Winners will be notified by e-mail minutes after drawing and will have 60 minutes to pay for their tickets with a credit card online. They must present their photo ID at the Neil Simon Theatre box office at least 30 minutes prior to the start of the corresponding performance to pick up their tickets.
·         Seat locations and number of tickets awarded by the lottery are subject to availability.

CATS returns to Broadway at the Neil Simon Theatre (250 W 52nd Street) with preview performances beginning Thursday, July 14, 2016, and an official opening set for Sunday, July 31, 2016.

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News from Richard Hillman PR

AMAS MUSICAL THEATRE
AND
THE AMAS MUSICAL THEATRE LAB
TO PRESENT STAGED READINGS OF
THE NEW YORK PREMIERE OF
R O U N D   T H E L O N I O U S
A NEW PLAY WITH MUSIC
WRITTEN AND PERFORMED BY ANITA POLLARD
MUSICAL DIRECTION BY WILLERM DELISFORT
DIRECTED BY SHIDAN MAJIDI

RIPLEY GREER STUDIOS
939 EIGHTH AVENUE (BETWEEN 55th & 56th STREETS)
JULY 25 & 26 @ 7PM

Amas Musical Theatre (Donna Trinkoff, Artistic Producer) and The Amas Musical Theatre Lab will present staged readings for the New York premiere of ‘Round Thelonious, a new play with music about the unique relationship between Rothschild heiress Pannonica (Nica) de Koenigswarter and jazz genius Thelonious Monk, written and performed by Anita Pollard. Directed by Shidan Majidi with Musical Direction by Willerm Delisfort (on piano), the readings will be held on Monday, July 25th and Tuesday, July 26th at 7pm at Ripley Greer Studios (939 Eighth Avenue – between 55th & 56th Streets). The readings are free and the seating is limited. For reservations, please email boxoffice@amasmusical.org or call 212-563-2565.

Round Thelonious tells the remarkable tale of Nica and Monk’s special and enduring friendship in the face of racism, prejudice and 1950s society’s ideals of conformity. This one-woman play weaves a highly entertaining monologue with the groundbreaking music of Thelonious Monk, portraying this real-life story on the stage for the very first time.
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And that's the Scoop. Tune in tomorrow for another Talking Topic.

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