Only a few weeks left of summer! Since I came home from college back in May, I have made myself useful and productive. I’ve been working at a local sports talk radio station in Guilderland, New York (104.5 The Team ESPN Radio), completed an online class from SUNY Oswego that will help me graduate from college early (copy editing JRL 220), and currently, work at my home church doing landscaping and other chores (Solid Rock Family Church in Glenmont, NY). However, I don’t want the remaining time of my summer to be unexciting and not pleasant. Fortunately, I happen to live with someone who enjoys seeing local theatrical productions as much as I do: my mom. Both of us, in recent memory, had performed in a few shows with different theater companies all around the Capital Region, but now, we’ve retired from performing in shows and instead plan to go see shows and support our acting peers.Here is a list of upcoming productions I will be going to see, as part of my summer theater-viewing tour:
1.Consortium Actors’ “Legally Blonde” – Thursday, July 20 at Siena College
This musical is based on the popular Reese Witherspoon film. Consortium Actors, as I have witnessed on many prior occasions, puts on shows that usually hit the jackpot. The music, the dancing, the acting, the sets, all of it! Consortium Actors uses the stage in Foy Hall of Siena College (a mid-major college located in Loudonville, NY) as its main performing platform. This show will finish up this weekend, and I highly recommend theater lovers in upstate New York to check out “Legally Blonde.” Go support these fine young performers! You will not be disappointed!
2.Not-So-Common Players’ “Fiddler on the Roof” – Friday, July 21 at the Clifton Commons Outdoor Stage, Clifton Park, NY
In addition to “Les Miserables,” “Guys and Dolls,” and “Anything Goes,” “Fiddler on the Roof” is one of my favorite musicals. Why? The same reason I like the others: the songs. From “Tradition” to “If I Were a Rich Man.” These tunes will get stuck in one’s head after seeing this show.Not-So-Common Players, a theater company located in Clifton Park, has put on excellent summer productions in recent years, such as “Anything Goes,” “State Fair,” “Damn Yankees,” and “Cinderella,” to name a few. This show has a flare for the dramatic. Theater brings out all sorts of emotions. Like the world of theater, “Fiddler on the Roof” is a classic that will never die down. You may even say it’s “tradition!”
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