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VOLUME SIXTEEN, ISSUE 30
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THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 4, 2014 HALF HOLLOW HILLS
‘Reality Theater’ Remembers 9/11 The Paramount Spotlight Dishwalla, best known for their success as a ’90s rock heavyweight, will take to The Paramount on Sept. 20.
Dishwalla ‘Counting Blue Cars’ By Andrew Wroblewski awroblewski@longislandernews.com
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During the school year, David Gabriel Lerner is just another regular high school student—sitting in classrooms at Half Hollow Hills High School East, doing his best to earn good grades, and participating in school theater productions. But his deep-seated passion for singing, dancing, and theater has brought him beyond the school auditorium and onto television sets, and even a Broadway stage, when he performed for 18 months as Michael Banks in “Mary Poppins.” Did we mention he is only 16? Lerner’s newest project is a family affair, and he said it’s different than anything else he’s ever done before. On Sept. 5 and 7, a performance entitled “In Session with Dr. Mark Lerner,” staged by
Reality Theatre Productions and featuring retired firefighter and 9/11 survivor Bobby Senn, will be staged in White Plains this week. Both David Gabriel Lerner and his father Mark Lerner will be acting in the production, but David said it’s not acting in the traditional sense of the word. “My father is actually a psychologist. He created Reality Theatre Productions—it’s where real people tell real stories that inspire and enlighten audiences. Bobby Senn came to see my father ‘in session’ 10 years ago. So in act one, we bring the audience back to revisit that first day.” Because Senn actually visited Dr. Lerner, who has offices in Melville, David Lerner said nothing the audience will witness is made up. He said they’re trying to keep things as real as possible. “Since it’s reality theater, all (Continued on page A22)
Dr. Mark Lerner and his son David Gabriel Lerner are involved in the father’s new theatrical endeavor, “In Session with Dr. Mark Lerner,” which commemorates the anniversary of 9/11 through a firefighter’s experiences in therapy.
MELVILLE
‘Schein’ At School With New Supplies By Arielle Dollinger
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If you ask George Pendergast – drummer for alternative rock band Dishwalla – what’s keeping ’90s music prospering today, oddly enough he’ll tell you that it’s the generation too young to even remember the decade. “Today, there are a lot of bands out there that sound like they came out of the ’90s,” said Pendergast, who’s set to play The Paramount – with the rest of Dishwalla – on Saturday, Sept. 20 at 8 p.m. for a ’90s rock tour also featuring bands Nine Days and Stroke 9. “Kids are then going out and researching ’90s music, listening to it and coming out to shows.” This has been made even easier, Pendergast said, by the popularity of music services like Spotify and Pandora, which give users the ability to play music from any decade and all
By Megan Connor
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The air surrounding the tent was the weightiest, heavy with the smell of hot dogs and the heat of the grill. Little girls in tiaras holding fairy wands and boys yielding balloon swords as tall as they were walked alongside accompanying adults. Hidden by a thick veil of children holding cotton candy and ice cream cones was the reason for the festivities: walls of cardboard boxes, each box wearing a white label with black text, filled with backpacks and clothes – gifts from healthcare product provider Henry Schein, Inc. to “underserved children.” The annual “Back To School” program, which gave over 600 children gift-filled boxes at Henry Schein’s Melville headquarters on Aug. 28, started in 1998 of the com(Continued on page A22)
Pictured, from left, Rosalinda Martinez, 11, Bella Martinez, 8, and Victoria Roller, 8, at the Henry Schein “Back to School” event.
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