With Revival of Cole Porter’s “Anything Goes,” Producers Scheduling More Musicals in 2019 and More Special Concerts BY GEORGE J. DACRE Westchester Broadway Theatre’s [WBT] co-producers Robert Funking along with William Stutler, put on their first show “Kiss Me Kate” on July 9, 1974, and learned soon after that musicals were what their audiences wanted. […]
BY GEORGE J. DACRE Zuri Washington and a very good cast made “Sister Act” a great evening of entertainment at the fabled dinner theatre in Elmsford. Washington, who played Deloris Van Cartier, a club lounge singer in Reno, Nevada, witnesses the club owner, who’s a mobster, shoot dead his chauffeur who has ratted on him […]
“Annie,” one of the world’s best-loved musicals, is showing June 29 – September 10 at the Westchester Broadway Theater in Elmsford. The classic musical is set in 1933 in New York City during the Great Depression. Little Orphan Annie is determined to find the parents who abandoned her years ago on the doorstep of a […]
Tribute to Buddy Holly BY GEORGE J. DACRE Baby boomers and fans of rock n’ roll got two hours of it Friday night at Westchester Broadway Theatre in Elmsford with Johnny Rogers. By way of Chicago and Tennessee, Rogers not only gave the audience a lot of Buddy Holly music but also his impressions of his […]
BY GEORGE J. DACRE Nick Hilscher, who doubles as lead male vocalist and leader of the band, has the current edition of the famed Glen Miller Orchestra at its all-time peak bringing an energy to the stage at WBT in Elmsford and a lot more Glen Miller music in their repertoire. Playing two engagements at […]
BY JEN RINI In November of 1995, 17-year-old Scott Vaccaro not only brewed his first homemade batch of Cranberry Celebration Ale, but also his passion for the brewing arts. “It’s a tangible delicious beverage and you can be very creative,” Vaccaro said. Vaccaro, now 34, and of legal drinking age, is the owner and head […]