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Year 29, No. 8
Celebrating 29 Years of Community News
October 23 – October 29, 2013
FIND YOUR COMMUNITY Elvis Costello Embarks on Solo U.S. Narberth Community Theatre NEWS HERE! Tour with Local Performance Nov. 10 Opens Season with Musical Kimmel Center for the Performing Arts Presents in Association with Live Nation Entertainment ?uestlove. The 12-city East Coast tour is Costello’s first major set of headlining solo dates in more than a decade kicking off in Burlington, Vermont on Nov. 2 and ending on Orono, Maine on Nov. 19.
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Elvis Costello embarks on Solo East Coast U.S. Tour with a Philadelphia stop at Merriam Theater on Sunday, November 10, at 8 p.m.
Celebrating Jewish Culture & Community Pages 8 & 10
Education News Page 9
Comedy “Nunsense”
lvis Costello embarks on Solo East Coast U.S. Tour with a Philadelphia performance at Merriam Theater on Sunday, November 10, at 8 p.m. Costello’s performance includes new work from Wise Up Ghost (re leased September 17, Blue Note Records), the collaborative album of Costello and The Roots, produced by longtime Roots associate Steven Mandel along with Costello and
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Healthy Living Page 11
Tickets are available for $46.50 to $76.50, and can be purchased by calling 215-8931999, online at www.kimmelcenter.org, at the Kimmel Center box office, Broad & Spruce streets (open daily 10 a.m. to 6 p.m.). Elvis Costello has followed his musical curiosity in a career spanning more than 30 years. He is perhaps best known for his performances with The Attractions, The Imposters and for concert appearances with pianist Steve Nieve. Elvis Costello and The Attractions were inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2003. During the same year he was awarded ASCAP’s prestigious Founder’s Award. There have also been a number of Grammy nominations for his recent albums When I Was Cruel and The Delivery Man. Costello has also entered into acclaimed collaborations with Burt Bacharach, The Brodsky Quartet Paul McCartney, Swedish mezzo-soprano Anne Sofie von Otter, guitarist Bill Frisell, composer Roy Nathanson, The See Elvis Costello in Philly on page 7
Narberth Community Theatre’s musical production of “Nunsense,” a musical comedy (Book, music and lyrics by Dan Goggin), November 8 - 23, at its new permanent home, the Overbrook Presbyterian Church located at 6376 City Avenue, Philadelphia, PA 19151. arberth Community Theatre’s musical production of “Nunsense,” a musical comedy (book, music and lyrics by Dan Goggin), will open on Friday, November 8, at its new permanent home, the Overbrook Presbyterian Church located at 6376 City Avenue, Philadelphia, PA 19151. Director Carol Robinson, choreographer Kenneth Fisher and music director Gary Snyder lead the production team. “Nunsense” runs November 8 through November 23. Ticket prices range from $16 - $19 and can be purchased via the website along with all performance dates and times at www.narberthcommunitytheatre.org. Call 610-352-4823 for information. “Nunsense” tells the story of five nuns from the Little Sisters of Hoboken convent. When their cook accidentally serves up some tainted soup, 52 of the sisters are poisoned and die. Forty eight have been buried and further funds are needed to bury the remaining 4, whose bodies are temporarily stored in the convent freezer. The nuns decide to put on a Variety Show in order to raise the rest of the money before the health department discovers their secret.
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See Narberth Community Theatre’s “Nunsense” on page 7
Making Monsters: Behind-the-Scenes with the ‘Scream Team’ Turning Mere Mortals into Zombies at Six Flags Great Adventure’s Fright Fest
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Six Flags Great Adventure’s Fright Fest master makeup artists, clockwise from left – Tony Mandile, Jessica Swarer, Nick Jaroslawsky, Amber Densmore, (door) Dave Meditz, (kneeling) Samantha Allen. There’s only one more weekend to experience Fright Fest this year! “fright by night” at Six Flags Great Adventure’s Fright Fest. Behind the scenes, a team of master makeup artists work their magic as they skillfully and briskly transform 200 warm-blooded actors into repulsive, flesh-hungry zombies that are the decaying heart of the Northeast’s largest Halloween party, running for one more weekend through October 27, 2013. Special effects supervisor Tony Mandile of Toms River, 39, annually assem-
Fright Fest Circus Psycho Clowns. bles and leads this hard-working band of monster makers. Mandile works all year long to brainstorm, design and create his gruesome masterpieces, which include anything from realistic body parts and prosthetics to lifelike masks and terror trail concepts. He began with Fright Fest in 1999, and has been a driving creative force consistently since 2003. See Fright Fest Artists on page 12