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The Arts Society is planning separate trips to a major jazz venue and a New York theater Feb. 28 and 29.
Reservations are due Wednesday for a trip to the Deer Head Inn at Delaware Water Gap Saturday, Feb. 28, where from 8 p.m.-midnight the Katchie Cartwright Sextet will preview twin CDs slated for Ides of March 2004 release: La Faute de la Musique: Songs of John Cage and A Mumbai of the Mind: Ferlinghetti Improvisations. The pieces feature improvisations by musicians, an acrobat, dogs, peacocks, naughty children, Jerry Lewis, Mae West, and Marilyn Monroe. Authorized bootlegs of the CDs will be on sale at the preview.
“Thoroughly original…no less than remarkable…a songstress and saxophonist deserving far wider recognition,” states Michael Nastos of AllMusicGuide. “Who thought jazz could be this much fun?” says Wayne Saroyan of JazzWest.
The lineup includes Cartwright, vocals; Richard Oppenheim, saxophone; Eleanor Oppenheim, bass; Joel Harrison, guitar; Bill Goodwin, drums; and Badal Roy, tablas & percussion. There is a $7 cover charge — waived for Arts Society members — plus a $10 minimum on food and drinks. To reserve or find out more, contact Dave Mitchell ’05 (Bear Creek, Pa.), a double major in music and economics & business, at mitchedk or x0899 by Wednesday.
The Arts Society also has 40 tickets for the Sunday, Feb. 29 performance of the new musical Wicked at Gershwin Theatre in New York. Tickets, which cost $25 for Arts Society members and $40 for non-members, must be paid by Friday; the price includes charter bus transportation. A sign-up sheet is on the Arts Society bulletin board across from the box office in the Williams Center.
The curtain time is 3 p.m. and the bus will leave the Williams Center at 9 a.m. to allow plenty of time for lunch and sightseeing before the performance. The bus will leave the Gershwin promptly after the show.
Starring Tony Award-winner Kristin Chenoweth (ABC-TV’s recent The Music Man), Tony nominee Idina Menzel (the original Maureen in Rent), and legendary Tony Award-winner Joel Grey (Cabaret), Wicked tells the story of two girls in the Land of Oz. One, born with emerald-green skin, is smart, fiery, and misunderstood. The other is beautiful, ambitious, and very popular. How these unlikely friends end up as the Wicked Witch of the West and Glinda the Good Witch makes for the most spellbinding new musical in years.