In the musical comedy “Little Me” – the fall musical at Iona Prep, opening tonight for a three-performance run – Belle, a girl from the wrong side of the tracks, meets aristocrat Noble Eggleston and falls in love.
But she lacks the wealth, culture and social position his snooty mother requires of a suitable match for her exceptional son, and the romance is doomed.
Belle then embarks on an improbable journey to achieve wealth, culture and social position. Over the course of her lifetime, she meets many men and marries several of them. But they all seem to meet untimely ends.
 Theater is best when it makes you forget you’re sitting in an auditorium with dozens of other program-clutching folks, when it transports you to another time and place.
“Mary’s Wedding,†the fall mainstage production of the excellent Hudson Stage Company — running through Nov. 15 — is theater at its best.
Ostensibly, Stephen Massicotte’s love story is set in World War I-era Canada, in a troop transport crossing the Atlantic, and in the battlefied of Ypres in Belgium.
By day, Charlie Scatamacchia sees to it that people who want to perform some of the most remarkable musicals ever written get a chance to do so.
Scatamacchia, who lives in Croton-on-Hudson, is vice president of R&H Theatricals, the arm of the Rodgers & Hammerstein Organization that grants performance rights to professional and amateur groups.
By night – starting tonight – Scatamacchia does some performing himself, in Cole Porter’s “Kiss Me, Kate” at Irvington’s Town Hall Theater. The production of the theater foundation’s Clocktower Players runs two weekends.
If it involves theater in any way -- from grade-schoolers learning
Shakespeare to high school musicals to Broadway veterans getting into
character -- this is the place to talk about it. We'll have audition
notices, casting notices, mini-reviews and plenty of ideas to fill a theater junkie's to-do list.
Peter D. Kramer has loved theater his whole life. A Rockland County native and 19-year employee of The Journal News, Pete relishes his current role, alerting theater lovers to the possibilities and talking to artists young and old about their craft. A former actor, director, technical director, ticket-taker and bon vivant, Pete has put a theater life behind him, living vicariously through those he interviews.
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