The O-town Scene

ferent characters. Coming Events SUCO to go ‘Arabian’ ONEONTA — SUNY One- onta Department of Theatre with Mask and Hammer Club will present “The Arabian Nights” by Mary Zimmeran this week. Shows are at 8 p.m. today through Friday and at 2 p.m. Saturday in the Goodrich Theater in the Fine Arts build- ing on campus. The show recounts the story of Schehe- razade and her 1,001 tales of humor, romance, seduc- tion and adventure. It contains some mature content and may not be suit- able for young children. Tickets can be purchased at the box office in the Fine Arts Players play ‘Passengers’ WORCESTER — The Catskill Community Players opens it 35th season with dinner and theater perfor- mances of “Passengers” by Sam Bobrick. Showings will be at 8 p.m. Friday and Saturday, as well as at 2 p.m. Sunday, with dinner to follow. building. General admission tickets are $3 or free for student with IDs. For box office infor- mation, call 436-3100. The play is “a fresh, idio- syncratic, irreverent comedy set in, of all places, a bus station,” presenters said. Bobrick wrote for television shows such as “Get Smart” before penning “Passengers.” The show will consist of eight vignettes performed by eight actors playing 17 dif- The cast includes Reggie Brunson, Ben Friedell, Francis Grunfeld, Christine Juliano, Joe Mungavin, Sue Pearson, Diane Stammel and Chloe Zaengle. Diana Friedell, a 30-year directing veteran, is directing and producing the produc- tion. The play will be presented at the Wieting Theatre in Worcester, in conjunction with dinner at the Worcester Inn across the street. Tickets for the show and dinner are $35 for adults and $30 for students and seniors, while show tickets alone are $15 for adults, $10 for students and seniors. Call 397-8500 for reserva- tions and information. Group to perform ‘Delancey’ BAINBRIDGE — The Out of the Woodwork Players begins their 2010-11 season this weekend with the roman- tic comedy “Crossing Delancey.” The story follows a well-meaning grandma focused of getting her granddaughter a good man in New York City. A local matchmaker works her magic to find a perfect mate on Manhattan’s Lower East Side. Contributed VJ Spike Priggen culture archivist and the cre- ator of the first music video blog — Bedazzled! — that he started in 2004. The cast includes Rachel Moses, Trish Goukas, Sharon Springstead, Rich Rutenber and Aaron Engelman. Shows are at 7:30 p.m. Friday and Saturday and at 2 p.m. Sunday in the Bain- bridge Town Hall Theatre at 15 N. Main St. in Bain- bridge. For more information, call 563-2582 or e-mail owptheatre@yahoo.com. VJ to spin videos Sat. ONEONTA — VJ Spike Priggen on Bedazzled.tv and Scopitones.com will present a program of rarely seen pop, rock and soul music videos 28 O-Town Scene Nov. 11, 2010 For more on Priggen, go to http://spikepriggen.com/. Group looks to ‘Knock ’Em Dead’ COBLESKILL —The Theater Project will present “Knock ‘Em Dead” at 6 p.m. Friday and Saturday at the Best Western in Cobleskill. The show, by Tom Old- endick and Will Roberson, includes dinner and focuses on a murder at Vinne’s Belly Laugh Club. Directed by Cherie Stevens and produced by Ron Cleeve, it features Vern Hall, Nelson Bradshaw, Libby Ham- mecker, Leslie Rigley, Posie Shaw, Dennis Shaw and Josh from the 60s, 70s and 80s at 9 p.m. Saturday at the One- onta Theatre, 47 Chestnut St. in Oneonta. Featured artists include The Beatles, The Who, The Rolling Stones, Curtis Mayfield, Marvin Gaye and The Supremes. Also look for the psychedelic sounds of the Grateful Dead, Pink Floyd and Jimi Hendrix; the stylings of Bob Dylan and Creedence Clearwater Revival; and the hard rock sounds of Black Sabbath, Kiss, AC/DC and more. The evening will also feature “Scopitones”, early 60s “Jukebox Movies” that are the pre-cursors to today’s modern music videos. Priggen is a VJ, DJ, pop Stuard. Tickets are $25. For more information, call 231-6225 or visit theaterproject.org. Poets to read in Treadwell TREADWELL —Word Thurs- days will feature Oneonta poet Pam Strother and Han- cock poet Lisa Wujnovich at the last reading of the 2010 season Thursday. They will read from their works after the open mic, which begins at 7 p.m. and during which all those pres- ent may read from their own work or that of others for up to five minutes. The readings will take place in the Word & Image Gallery at Bright Hill Literary Center, now featuring “Ready to Fold: Nine Artist Books by Melissa Whalen Haertsch, Michael Poster, and Ivana Pavelka,” all of Pennsyl- vania. Bright Hill is located at 94 Church Street, Treadwell, one block north of Barlow’s General Store. There is a $3 admission (free to those 18 and under). Strother has organized poetry programs, read- ings, and seminars, and was a reader at Robert Frost Poetry Festival. Wujnovich holds an MFA in poetry from Drew University. She writes poetry and farms at Mountain Dell Farm in Hancock. For more information, call 829-5055 or e-mail wordthur@stny.rr.com. DJ, karaoke at Empire GILBERTSVILLE — DJ Donna will be spinning tunes and hosting karaoke from 9 p.m. to 1 a.m. Saturday at the Empire House. Reservations are strongly recommended at the bar, located at 32 Marion Ave. in Gilbertsville. For reservations and more information, call 783-2859 or search for the Empire House on Facebook.

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