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Year 32, No. 16
Celebrating 32 Years of Community News
December 14 – December 20, 2016
New Season of “Broadway Up Close” 2017 Mummers Parade to Welcome New Year with New Series Hosted by Seth Rudetsky Performers and Old Friends
Features Stars of Stage and Screen including Matthew Morrison, Vanessa Williams, Alice Ripley, and Chita Rivera in Evenings of Song with a Side of Broadway Dish
fter a successful first season, The Kimmel Center for the Performing Arts presents its 2016 –17 lineup for Broadway Up Close, hosted by Sirius XM Radio Star Seth Rudetsky. Formerly known as the Seth Rudetsky Broadway Concert Series, the
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Philadelphia’s Mummers Parade is the Nation’s Oldest Continuous Folk Festival
The 2016-17 “Broadway Up Close” season includes Vanessa Williams on Saturday, January 21, 2017.
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New Brodsky Chair at Lankenau Page 8
Broadway Up Close concert series will consist of four performances featuring renowned actors from the stage and screen. This season’s lineup will include Tony Award® winners Chita Rivera and Alice Ripley, the Tony, Emmy & Golden Globe nominated star of Glee, Matthew Morrison, and Grammy, Tony & Emmy-nominated star Vanessa Williams. Broadway Up Close is presented in association with Mark Cortale Productions. “This new season of Broadway Up Close adds another layer to our fabulous Broadway programming by providing access to the best of Broadway in our intimate Perelman Theater,” said Anne Ewers, President and CEO of the Kimmel Center for the Performing Arts. “These cabaret-style performances, hosted by the incomparable Seth Rudetsky, give audiences an opportunity to experience Broadway as the title implies, up close, through song and stories from their favorite artists.” The 2016–17 Broadway Up Close season will consist of the following performances: Matthew See “Broadway Up Close” on page 5
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he 2017 Philadelphia Mummers Parade will kick off on Sunday, January 1, 2017 with an assortment of colorfully costumed musicians and flamboyant performances representing Mummers traditions both old and in the making. Mummers fans are invited to Broad Street where the Mummers Parade kicks off at City Hall at 9 a.m. Spectators can enjoy the Parade from three special performance zones as more than 10,000 glittering and colorful Mummers strut and dance down Broad Street. The parade route will take the performing groups down Broad Street from City Hall to Washington Avenue. The main performance area is at City Hall
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See 2017 Philadelphia Mummers Parade & Events on page 7
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Members of the Uptown String Bank pay a musical tribute to firefighters during last year’s Mummers Parade, held January 1, 2016.
he Merion Foundation, the grant making arm of the Merion Community Association, has announced the receipt of a donation from the Woman’s Club of Bala Cynwyd of its two Main Line properties. The move will ensure that the historic nature of the properties is preserved and the buildings continue to serve the surrounding community. The properties located on the corner of Levering Mill Road and Bala Avenue, to be known as the Levering Mill Tribute House (Ballroom and Library), will continue to be used as an event and community meeting space. As part of the donation agreement, the Woman’s Club board will continue its use of the space for meetings and charitable events. However, the facilities will be managed and operated by the Board of Directors of the Merion Foundation, in pursuance of its mission of historic preservation and community grant
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making. The Foundation’s partner organization, the Merion Community Association, has significant experience in the maintenance and operation of historic properties serving in its capacity as Trustee of the Merion Tribute House since 1924. The properties located on the corner of Levering Mill Road and Bala Avenue, to be known as the Levering Mill Tribute House (Ballroom and Library), will continue to be used as an event and community meeting space. The facilities will be managed and operated by the Board of Directors of the Merion Foundation. The Woman’s Club of Bala Cynwyd traces its history to the early part of the 20th century (1912) and was incorporated in 1922 to further See Woman’s Club of Bala Cynwyd Donates Historic Properties page 4