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CAMPING:

A chance to enjoy the great outdoors

Marshmallows toasted on an open campfire make the perfect camping snack – s’mores. (METRO CREATIVE ARTS)

COVID-19 alters vacation plans

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By Keith O’Connor

Special to The Republican

taying away from the beach this year in fear of COVID-19?

Has your dream trip to Italy that you have been planning for a while been canceled?

Afraid to go away and stay in a hotel?

For those reasons and many others, Americans are changing their vacation plans to enjoy the great outdoors.

According to the 2020 North American Camping Special Report sponsored by Kampgrounds of America (KOA), which looks at the effects of COVID-19 on camping, campers plan to take their planned camping trip this year, and non-campers say they are now interested in camping due to the pandemic.

The full report is available at koa.com.

But just like those “no vacancy” signs you see lighting up the windows of many motels, the same is holding true for some campgrounds as well.

“We’ve had many calls from people who want to use our campground this year, but space is limited since we can According to the 2020 North American Camping Special Report sponsored by Kampgrounds only operate at half capacity of America (KOA), which looks at the effects of COVID-19 on camping, campers plan to take because of the pandemic,” said Meg Twarowski, co-own- their planned trip this year, and non-campers say they are now interested in camping due to the SEE CAMPING, PAGE E3 pandemic. (METRO CREATIVE ARTS)

“Camping is a family-oriented thing to do. It’s less expensive for families once you get beyond the cost of a rig or a secondhand pop-up camper, and some even sleep in tents. Some of the advantages of camping are that you have your own food, you’re not cooped up in a hotel room, and many campgrounds offer plenty of things for you to do.”

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to accommodate a mobile DJ,” Twarowski said.

Yet another indication that camping is on the increase in the new world of COVID-19 is the fact that sales are on the increase, said Jessica Drouin, general manager at Gander RV of West Hatfield.

“It’s been different in a good way. Obviously, it is something we never could prepare for. The good news is that with the RV industry as big as it is, there are so many opportunities to affordably spend time with family in these uncertain times. Many campgrounds have good isolation practices set up for safety, and you can escape from the everyday monotony of life, being among large groups while vacationing, and not having to stay in hotels, which makes some people apprehen-

when entering the parking lot.

To promote social distancing, cars will be parked in every other space. A limited menu of snacks will be available for purchase with cash only from Cinemark and Friends of Children will sell bottled drinks.

Tickets are $25 per car if purchased in advance or $30 per car on the night of the event. All ticket sales raised will help benefit Friends of Children.

sive among COVID-19. This lifestyle has definitely become big this summer for those who have never experienced it before,” she said about the great outdoors.

With many RV types available from the basic to more expensive and luxurious models — those with such amenities as electric window shades, heated floors, king bed, slide-out rooms, full kitchens with quartz countertops, wine chillers, washer and dryer, solar packages and powerful sound systems — there is a model for everyone.

“For now I would say that the most affordable, lightweight, easily maneuverable models for first timers, especially for those who don’t have huge trucks to pull them, are what’s going out our doors right now,” Drouin said

The Pioneer Valley Chapter 8 is a group of 200 families who have joined together as a club to promote and enjoy the world of camping — including those who travel by any means such as tents, tent trailers, travel trailers, fifth wheels, and any type of motor home. PV8 organizes at least four camping and outdoor functions each year that include games for adults and kids, as well as themed entertainment. Active all year long, the group offers many off-season activities for members held at their hall in Granby.

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er with husband of Village Green Family Campground in Brimfield.

Additional findings in the report include: • Leisure travelers — including both campers and non-campers — ranked camping as the safest form of travel to resume once restrictions are lifted.

• Camping, glamping and road trips may replace other types of planned trips in 2020.

• COVID-19 concerns have impacted how campers camp in the short term, including smaller group sizes, camping closer to home and accommodation choices.

• Interest in RV camping among both campers and non-campers can be attributed to concerns of cleanliness at other accommodations like hotels or resorts, as well as interest in avoiding communal facilities.

Another reason for the interest in camping as an alternative this summer is the word “family,” as in Village Green Family Campground.

“Camping is a family-oriented thing to do. It’s less expensive for families once you get beyond the cost of a rig or a secondhand pop-up camper, and some even sleep in tents. Some of the advantages of camping are that you have your own food, you’re not cooped up in a hotel room,

and many campgrounds offer plenty of things for you to do. Most campgrounds cost an average of $35 to $50 a night,” said Dale Benard of the Pioneer Valley Chapter 8 of the North American Family Campers Association.

However, there are still challenges for some who want to enjoy the full benefits of camping. According to Benard, depending upon the state you live in, the size of your group may be limited, and common areas such as pools, game rooms and bathrooms may be closed.

“That’s when you have to get creative and sit around and enjoy the outdoors, as well as to find things to do such as playing cards or other games,” Benard said.

At Village Green Family Campground, they do have their pond and playground open and are doing extensive sanitizing. But they don’t have their store open yet or the pavilion.

“We have many events throughout the year, and with social distancing we’ve gotten creative in order to continue some of them. We’ve made a float to bring around to different areas of the camp that we decorate depending on what we’re doing. We have an ice cream truck painted background that goes around to sell ice cream. For Christmas in July we painted a sleigh that Santa drove to different sites to deliver presents. And we have also decorated the float

The Hampshire Mall is partnering with a nonprofit group, Friends of Children, to help raise funds and to provide a night out for families.

Cinemark East parking lot in Hadley will be transformed tomorrow into a drive-in theater playing the 2019 Disney movie “Aladdin.” The movie will start at 8:30 p.m., but the gates will open at 7 p.m.

The Hampshire Mall is asking attendees to enter through the South Maple entrance

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MUSIC

Ringo Starr to headline virtual festival

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INGO STARR WILL join a long list of artists offering up performances as part of a virtual festival to benefit MusiCares and NIVA. The event will be broadcast on Saturday on YouTube Live from artists homes and also from renowned venues such as New York City’s Bowery Electric and LA’s Whiskey a Go Go and The Viper Room.

Other acts include Slash, Cheap Trick, John Oates, David Johansen, Billy Gibbons, Sean Lennon, Macy Gray and Jesse Malin.

Dubbed “De(Tour),” the event will be free to stream with donations suggested to the two listed charities.

NIVA is the National Independent Venue Association and MusiCares provides financial, medical and personal emergency expenses to musicians in need.

Liner notes • Metallica will offer a “live” concert for fans at the end of this month.

As part of the “Encore Drive-In Nights” concert series, Metallica will film the show at a secret location near its Northern California headquarters for airing Aug. 29 at drive-in theaters.

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Area drive-ins that will screen the concert include the Southington DriveIn in Southington, Connecticut, the Northfield Drive-In in Hinsdale, New Hampshire, and the Mendon Twin in Mendon.

The performance will feature archival footage from the band’s career along with a full “live” concert.

Three Days Grace will serve as the opening act for the event.

Tickets for the event will be available beginning tomorrow through all Ticketmaster

Ringo Starr performs at Keller Auditorium in Portland, Ore., on Oct. 18, 2016. Starr will join a long list of artists offering up performances as part of a virtual festival to benefit MusiCares and NIVA on Saturday. (DAVID GREENWALD / THE OREGONIAN FILE PHOTO)

outlets including ticketmaster.com and by phone at 800-745-3000. Tickets are $115 and include admission for up to six people in every car and includes four downloads of Metallica’s “S&M 2” release.

Area drive-ins that will screen the concert include the Southington Drive-In in Southington, Connecticut, the Northfield Drive-In in Hinsdale, New Hampshire, and the Mendon Twin in Mendon.

For more information about tickets and the complete list of drive-ins that will be screening the show, visit metallica. com.

• Country star Chris Stapleton has a new area date for his All American Road Show tour.

Originally scheduled for Aug. 1 at the Xfinity Centre in Mansfield, the performance has been moved to Oct. 2, Metallica’s Kirk Hammett rocks a sold out crowd at Van Andel 2021.

Arena in Grand Rapids, Mich., last year as part of its WorldTickets purchased for the Wired Tour. Metallica will offer a “live” concert for fans that will original date will be honored. be shown at select drive-in theaters at the end of this month.

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Stapleton debuted as a solo artist in 2015 with his release “Traveller,” which went to No. 1 on the U.S. album charts.

He has gone on to win multiple CMA awards and a Grammy for Best Country Album.

itinerary, canceling one show and rescheduling another.

Daughtry has scrapped plans to play the Wilbur Theatre in Boston in August and moved its Sept. 3 show at Mohegan Sun to April 9, 2021.

Tickets purchased for the original Mohegan date will be honored.

The group was originally set • Rock band Daughtry has made some COVID-19 related to kick off its 2020 tour with SEE LIVEWIRE, PAGE E5 adjustments to its touring

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Fontaines D.C. sound like ‘rock-’n’-roll heroes’ • Fontaines D.C., “A Hero’s Deathâ€? (Partisan) When will I ever see a small-club rock show that’s as taut and explosive as Fontaines D.C. were at Johnny Brenda’s last year?

Hopefully not never — though with no end in sight to the COVID-19 concert shutdown, nights like that Saturday in September seem almost mythical. After the show, a sage and now deceased old friend said to me: “I haven’t been this excited about a young band since the Clash.�

A Springâ€? project endearing romanticism. And when “A Hero’s Deathâ€? really hits its marks, as it does on the title cut, Fontaines D.C. sound like the rock-’n’-roll heroes this moment so desperately needs. — Dan DeLuca • The Microphones, “Microphones in 2020â€?

(P.W. Elverum & Sun) Phil Elverum started making home recordings as the Microphones in 1995 when he was 17, and for a fervent subset of indie-rock fans at the turn of the century, the

“A Hero’s Death� is the fast follow-up to last year’s promising “Dogrel,� in which singer Grian Chatten proudly placed himself in a long ling of Irish storytellers: “Dublin in the rain is mine,� he announced. “My childhood was small/But I’m gonna be big.�

The young band in question is an Irish post-punk quintet named after Johnny Fontane, the crooner in “The Godfather� whose career benefits from a horse’s head in a movie producer’s bed.

The D.C. announces their origins: Dublin City. “A Hero’s Death� is the fast follow-up to last year’s promising “Dogrel,� in which singer Grian Chatten proudly placed himself in a long ling of Irish storytellers: “Dublin in the rain is mine,� he announced. “My childhood was small/But I’m gonna be big.�

That grand ambition is heard on “A Hero’s Death,� which broadens the band’s sound beyond Chatten’s deadpan spoken-sung vocals and tightly-coiled attack drawn from punk-era bands Gang of Four and Television.

Its slow-burning approach sometimes takes a while to ignite, and songs like “Love Is The Main Thing� risk repetitiveness. But near-ballads like “Oh Such

Microphones were everything. The taste-making website Pitchfork called “The Glow, Pt.2� the best album of 2001.

Alone and with others, Elverum melded lo-fi recording techniques with poetic lyrics that were part autobiography and part wonderment at the natural world. Then, in 2003, Elverum abruptly retired the Microphones and began releasing records as Mount Eerie.

On “Microphones in 2020,� Elverum weaves in allusions to old Microphones songs and looks back on his formative years to contemplate how experiences change us (or don’t). “What from these things do I carry with me still?� he asks. And in one captivating, entrancing 45-minute song — it’s the whole album — Elverum strives for answers.

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a show at the Cabot Theater in Beverly on March 28. That show was canceled over coronavirus pandemic concerns and later moved to the Wilbur.

Singer Chris Daughtry turned his run on “American Idol� — he earned the fifthplace spot in 2006 — into a stellar career fronting the band that bears his name.

Since that time he has five studio albums, scored four No. 1 hits, and garnered four Grammy nominations. • Kathy Mattea’s “Acoustic Living Roomâ€? tour has been postponed until 2021.

Originally scheduled for the Shea Theater in Turners Falls on April 30, the performance has been moved to April 17 of next year.

Tickets purchased for the original April 30 date will be honored.

Ticket information is available through the promoter’s website, dspshows.com.

Mattea is touring with a longtime collaborator, guitarist Bill Cooley. The show is part of the singer’s “Acoustic Living Room� tour.

Mattea is known for No. 1 country singles such as “Goin’ Goneâ€? and “Eighteen Wheels and a Dozen Roses.â€? • Live Nation is bringing the arena concert back — to Germany.

The world’s premier live music producer will present “Give Live a Chance,� an arena concert featuring Bryan Adams as the headliner.

The concert will be held on Sept. 4 at Dßsseldorf ’s Merkur Spiel-Arena.

It is one of the few, if not only, newly announced concerts in the COVID-19 era, which essentially closed down the live event industry back in March. “The fans, artists, and crew, as well as the entire music industry, have been eagerly awaiting this moment,� said Live Nation executive Marek Lieberberg. “We are

Singer Bryan Adams performs at Turning Stone Casino in Verona, N.Y., in 2016. He will perform Sept. 4 in Germany for the arena concert “Give Live a Chance.�

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opening the door for the return of live music which now has the opportunity to resume after the unpredicted intermission.�

The event will have restrictions and guidelines in place.

For example, the 66,000 seat arena will be drastically limited in capacity for the

event, no alcohol will be served and masked fans will be required to register contact information with their ticket purchases.

Fans must also remain seated during the concert.

To date, Germany has had just over 217,000 confirmed coronavirus cases.

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MOVIES FILM REVIEW

‘She Dies Tomorrow’ timely horror film for pandemic

By Ann Hornaday

Washington Post

Writer-director Amy Seimetz dredges up a queasily effective sense of impending doom in “She Dies Tomorrow,” a vivid but vaporous portrait of collective unease that feels uncannily of this moment.

The film opens on the teary, bleary eye of an obviously distraught woman. It belongs to a character named Amy (Kate Lyn Sheil), who has awakened on an alien-looking yellow couch in the middle of the desert. Making her way to a new house in Los Angeles, she numbly goes through packing boxes and half-unpacked household items, puts Mozart’s Requiem Mass in D Minor on repeat, pours herself several glasses of wine and surfs the Web for cremation urns.

Amy goes through these motions like a ghost visiting the ruins of a past life, caressing the walls and floorboards, standing outside to consider the backyard vegetation. At one point, her friend Jane (Jane Adams) stops by for a visit, and becomes alarmed:

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Amy is convinced she’s about to die, a certainty that Jane dismisses as a paranoid fantasy until she, too, is engulfed by a similar existential miasma.

Seimetz, best known for directing and acting in such television series as “The Girlfriend Experience” and the film “Pet Semetary,” is an expert in atmospherics.

“She Dies Tomorrow” oozes with Southern California banality, even as it evokes the weirdness of classics such as “Repulsion” and “Safe.” And she casts her movies beautifully: Sheil, who starred in Seimetz’s 2012 feature debut “Sun Don’t Shine,” manages to be blank and expressive at the same time, while

Kate Lyn Sheil and Kentucker Audley in a scene from “She Dies Tomorrow.” (NEON)

supporting players Adams, Chris Messina and a hilarious Josh Lucas provide welcome animation to otherwise somnambular proceedings.

(Cineastes will appreciate a cameo by the revered experimental filmmaker James Benning who pops up in one of the film’s most disturbing interchanges.)

What’s it all about? Seimetz doesn’t say, or at least not in

“She Dies Tomorrow,” which in some ways is positioned as a conventional horror film, but instead floats to its indeterminate conclusion on a drifting cloud of maddeningly opaque pronouncements, close-up shots of shifting shapes, light and color and the protagonist’s dolorous sense of fatalism. The film’s themes of sorrow, grief and contagion can’t help but res-

onate in a time of pandemic and unimaginable loss. But there are no concrete ideas to bolster what is essentially an amorphous drift into inchoate terror. As an exercise in tone, “She Dies Tomorrow” is impressively resourceful, even acute; when it comes to anything more substantial, it feels as wispy as a desiccated palm frond.

STREAMING ONLINE

‘Red Penguins,’ ‘Out Stealing Horses’ among latest releases

By Ann Hornaday and Michael O’Sullivan

Members of the Pittsburgh Penguins in “Red Penguins.” (UNIVERSAL PICTURES)

squarely in the middle of the lawlessness, corruption and never-ending Washington Post river of vodka that defined Russia in In 2014, filmmaker Gabe Polsky the early 1990s. The scrappy protagonist of the story is Steven Warshaw, made “Red Army” about the Soviet Union’s famous hockey team. Viewers a promotional wunderkind who was might assume that Polsky’s new docu- selected to be Pittsburgh’s man in mentary, “Red Penguins,” is a sequel Moscow at the time. With a shrewd to that funny and illuminating film, eye for spectacle, Warshaw turned but they would be mistaken. One Moscow’s decrepit hockey arena into or two “Red Army” characters pop a showcase for American advertising, up in cameos, but this is an entirely scantily clad women at intermission (and a few performing bears). different — and much more improbable and wildly entertaining — story Of course, it’s all fun and games till that chronicles a short-lived but someone gets hurt; with “Red Penjam-packed partnership between the guins,” Polsky does an adroit job of evoking both the hilarity and promise Pittsburgh Penguins and Red Army that put a ragtag team of Americans SEE ONLINE, PAGE E7

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Nicholas Edwards, center, as Jesus in the Berkshire Theater Group’s socially distanced production of “Godspell” in Pittsfield on Aug. 7. The Berkshire Theater Group put on the first professional musical in the U.S. since the pandemic lockdown, and it’s a revival in every sense.

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Musical theater rises from dead with production of ‘Godspell’

By Ben Brantley

their lower faces hidden as the times demanded, in a parking lot in a small city in the lap of the Berkshire Mountains. They were looking for signs of a resurrection.

It felt right that a tent – with socially distanced folding chairs set up inside – had been assembled behind the

Colonial Theater here, as if for a revival meeting. The 1971 musical “Godspell,” which was being reincarnated by the Berkshire Theater Group, is based on parables from the New Testament, and its leading man is named Jesus.

don’t cause a flood/ There’s more than one use for Vicks vapor rub/ Nirvana was CONTINUED FROM PAGE E5 electric when they was unsings in a delicate, ruminative plugged/ And some women voice set to simple, repetitive got the outlaw blood.” acoustic guitar strumming It’s Hubbard in a nutshell: that gradually shape-shifts Over an elemental, slide-guitar-accented groove, the with electric distortion and stretches of somber full-band wizened, Oklahoma-born Texas troubadour dispenses arrangements.

Like a good memoir, it’s inwisdom while sounding as if tensely personal while glimps- he’s simultaneously tapping ing universal truths. “I will into some ancient hoodoo never stop singing this song; and being fully grounded in it goes on forever,” Elverum the present. It’s the kind of sings quietly, referring both to thing that makes Hubbard “Microphones in 2020” and to one hip and thoroughly enthe work he has been doing all tertaining cat.

On his new album, music his life. – Steve Klinge and the people who make • Ray Wylie Hubbard, it remain a preoccupation, “Co-Starring” (Big Mafrom “Rock Gods” to a sweet chine) tribute to country-blues In the chorus of “Outlaw great Mississippi John Hurt.

Blood,” Ray Wylie Hubbard There’s also a gospel-tinged sings: “Divine retribution acoustic blues track, “Hum-

mingbird,” about a model of Gibson guitar. Hubbard will also go full meta: “I’m recording this with Tyler Bryant and the Shakedown,” he announces in the middle of “R.O.C.K.” Veering from rock and blues, he also makes a killer contribution to the canon of country drinking songs with “Drink Till I See Double” (“and take one of you home”).

“Co-Starring’s” title refers to the album’s multigenerational list of guest accompanists, from Ringo Starr, Joe Walsh, Chris Robinson and Ronnie Dunn to younger acts such as Bryant, the Cadillac Three and Ashley McBryde.

They all help Hubbard continue to realize a vision that remains as singular and sharp as ever. – Nick Cristiano Tribune News Service

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dichotomy of another sort: the past and the present, and how one reconciles the two.

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‘Godspell’

The golden rule here takes the form of their nearly always keeping at least 6 feet from one another. Whenever they have to cross one another’s paths they make sure their masks (bunched around their necks) are pulled into place.

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But the creed being promulgated so poignantly here, in a mood that might be described as highly creative caution, wasn’t so much Christianity as the embattled religion of theater, the practice of which has all but disappeared in the age of the COVID-19 pandemic.

The very existence of this version of John-Michael Tebelak and Stephen Schwartz’s half-century-old slice of story-theater uplift qualifies as something of a miracle. As a general rule, summer stagings of “Godspell,” a favorite of church and school theaters, are as common as crab grass.

But this “Godspell” has historic singularity on its side. It is the first professional musical, sanctioned by Actors’ Equity, to open in this country since the great pandemic lockdowns began.

This means that the show, directed by Alan Filderman and choreographed by Gerry McIntyre, had to follow rules of Talmudic rigor, in compliance with the Massachusetts Department of Public Health, to keep its 10-member cast and its 75-member audience safe from infection. Such dictums have been hard enough to enforce in supermarkets.

But in live theater, which relies on communal intimacy?

And “Godspell,” which traditionally features sunny young casts cuddling and romping like a herd of puppies, is one of the huggiest musicals ever created.

That’s one of the reasons hardened critics have tended to sneer at “Godspell.” Check out the reviews that have appeared in The New York Times over the years, and you’ll find descriptions like “nauseating” (Clive Barnes, 1971); “recalls nothing so much as ‘The Muppet Show’” (Bruce Weber, 2000), and “relentlessly perky” (Charles Isherwood, 2010).

But historical and social context counts for a lot in how a work of art is perceived.

If you’ve been stranded in a desert with nothing to drink, a communion chalice of

Emily Koch, left, Isabel Jordan and Najah Hetsberger perform in the Berkshire Theater Group’s socially distanced production of “Godspell” in Pittsfield on Aug. 7. The Berkshire Theater Group put on the first professional musical in the U.S. since the pandemic lockdown, and it’s a revival in every sense. (SARA KRULWICH / T HE NEW YORK TIMES)

They have all had their acting careers derailed, and they describe feelings of fear, even Event: ‘Godspell’ mortal fear, and hopelessWhen: Through Sept. 4 ness. And they worry that the Where: Outside at the Cotheater they knew and lived lonial Theater, Pittsfield by might indeed be a thing of For more info: Call 413the past.

997-4444 or visit berk Dressed not in the flowshiretheatregroup.org er-child glad rags associated with the 1973 “Godspell” film grape soda may taste like the but in Hunter Kaczorowski’s finest Champagne. Having inventive variations on denim experienced theater only via work and play clothes, they computer screens for some proceed not only to speak but 150 days, I was thirsty for any to embody the show’s most kind of in-person encounter crucial precept. You know, do with flesh-and-blood practiunto others, etc. tioners.

The golden rule here takes I hasten to add here that this the form of their nearly “Godspell” isn’t just better always keeping at least 6 feet than nothing. And it’s as deep- from one another. Whenever ly affecting as it is not despite, they have to cross one another’s paths they make sure but because of, its well-worn their masks (bunched around material. In reimagining a their necks) are pulled into string of biblical life lessons place. When a chorus sings and folkified hymns and Schwartz’s tuneful earwig pop gospel songs for the age of gospel — an activity known the coronavirus, Filderman and company are speaking to to let spittle fly — it does so behind the transparent panels contemporary fears bred by of Randall Parsons’ beautiisolation and inaction.

The production begins with fully utilitarian set. (Matthew the cast members describing Adelson’s patterned lighting helps keep it from looking like what their lives have been like during lockdown and the a doctor’s waiting room.)

Despite being part of a Black Lives Matter protests. cast of 10, each perform(The original “Godspell” portrayed a battling dialogue er is up there alone. They usually dance (even tap of famous philosophers.)

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dance) in place, sometimes seated. (High points: Nicholas Edwards as Jesus and Tim Jones as Judas doing a vaudeville-style duet with yardsticks instead of canes, and lots of hand-sanitizing shtick, and Zach Williams vamping like a killer chorine from “Chicago.”) When the script calls for physical contact — which includes being baptized, embracing, slapping a cheek (so the other can be turned) and, of course, a Judas kiss — action and reaction are delivered in separate, distanced places.

As a metaphor for how so many of us have been living since March, this form of theatrical communication feels both heartbreaking and valiant. We adapt, we make do, even as we long to return to the age of the handshake and the hug.

This style of performance also has the advantage of scaling back the antic, exhibitionist quotient of “Godspell.” As in most latter-day productions, there are interpolated cute contemporary references (they here include Dad jokes and the Occupy movement). But there’s a new sense of reflectiveness here, and you actually feel you’re seeing the show’s pre-

cepts put into action.

Of course, the telling of the parables — the prodigal son, the good Samaritan — still fills lots of stage time, a bit tediously, with the performers adopting cute accents. It’s when the cast members, most of whom embody a multitude of roles, sang that I found my mandatory face mask was often wet with tears.

It’s not that all have exceptional voices (although Alex Getlin, doing “By My Side,” written by Jay Hamburger and Peggy Gordon, has an Orphic folk alto to melt stone). But they sing with clarity, conviction and a radiant gratitude for the chance to be there.

And neither they nor Andrew Baumer’s musical direction ever push too hard for soul-rousing, hand-clapping effect (not even during the show’s breakout hit, “Day by Day,” sincerely sung by Isabel Jordan).

As for the man of the moment — or should I say of eternity? — Edwards’ open-faced Jesus is no holier-than-thou, preachy prophet. In song, he projects a beatified ambivalence that turns mixed feelings into a state of grace. His voice segues from burnished mellowness into a big, blazing brightness that’s always underscored with pain.

When he finishes singing the ballad “Beautiful City,” he looks both ravenously hopeful and devastated as he tries to envision a radiant future.

I never thought I’d say this, but I know exactly how Jesus feels.

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A tale of 2 lagers

’M MORE OF AN “ALEwife” than a “lagerhead,” to wreak havoc with those two terms.

What I mean is that I usually prefer the rougher fermented fabrics of ales as opposed to the cleaner, smoother veneers of lagers.

It’s not that I don’t appreciate the tidiness of a great lager finish, it’s just that in general (in most things, from music to food to film to dog grooming), I prefer things a little more unkempt and not as pristine.

Lagers by nature tend to be more polished due to the way they’re made via the lagering (storing) process. Letting these beers sit for months sands off the coarser corners of the flavor profile. This isn’t to say, of course, that all lagers are boring or without any wild aspects: many have plenty and they can be as complex, if not more so, than many ales. But overall, the usual crispness of the finish is less satisfying for me. I enjoy the esters and phenols that blossom from ales’ top-fermenting yeasts.

However, summertime is often lager time for me. Some days you just want that clean flavor and softer finish, which psychologically, at least, is more satisfying and thirst-slaking on hot days. This year, with all the madness that is going on around us, I have found a few lagers have really provided a calm, steady centerpiece. Luckily, these two beers are both (more or less) local.

The first one isn’t right in our backyard here in Western Massachusetts, but it’s close enough. McNeill’s Brewery in Brattleboro, Vermont, has just released a fantastic Bohemian Pilsner, which you can get in growlers to take out.

Ray McNeil, as many readers know, is a master of his craft and has been at it for many decades. With this pilsner, however, he has really outdone himself. Using a blend of German and Czech pilsner malts, Saaz hops from the Czech Republic, and yeast from the Budvar brewery, Ray created a perfect pils, which finishes with a tasty hop enticement. Ray said it was cellared more than

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four months, and that is even dent in its seamless melding of malt goodness with earthy spiciest of the Saaz hops.

If you like a good Czech pils, make an appointment to get your growler filled (you have to bring your own).

The other lager I’d like to recommend is Building 8’s The Lager. Following in the footsteps of the brewery’s first sojourn into lagers, The LBer, this new iteration takes the whole flavor profile up a notch or two. While I enjoyed The LBer, it never grabbed me in a way that I felt like drinking it regularly. But I even surprised myself the other day when I was at Liquors 44, and instead of grabbing two four-packs of The IPA, I made one of them a four-pack of The Lager. Trust me, that says something.

The Lager is a German-style pils that employs its hops beautifully and adds a nice finishing element that makes you want another one.

Plenty of hot weather left.

I’d get a bunch of both.

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NE OF THE MAJOR beneficiaries of the COVID-19 pandemic have been the third-party delivery services — Uber Eats, DoorDash, and the like.

These entities represented a small but growing presence in the dining out world prior to the shutdowns that began in March of this year; since the start of lockdown their share of aggregate restaurant trans-

actions have grown dramatically, from 3% to 7%. Grubhub, for instance, recently reported that it now has more than 27 million users active on its app-based platform, and daily orders placed through it had increased 32% over last year.

One business unknown for Grubhub and its competitors is whether or not this growth in business represents a trend

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There’s another problem for third-party delivery — it’s not Side dishes • Though the restaurant currently profitable for either the services or the restaurants has resumed socially dissupplying the food. Grubhub, tanced indoor dining, the Federal Restaurant & Bar for instance, reported a 77 cents per order loss during its in Agawam continues to offer most current quarter, a period its Federal Family Packages as a take-out alternative. of time the service spent Designed to serve five, the $100 million to “drive more packages include salad, entree eyeballs” to its app.

The bottom line impact on and dessert. Main dish choicrestaurants involved with es include chicken Bolognese, third-party delivery services trufffled mac and cheese, can be even more severe. rosemary-roasted chicken Required to “wholesale” their breast, grilled Atlantic salmon, and beef short ribs braised food to Grubhub and others at discounts of 20% or more, in red wine.

Four dessert options are restaurants lose money — available — chocolate truffle sometimes quite substantial amounts — on every third par- cake, warm Nutella crepes, ty delivery order they accept. pecan caramel cheesecake, Some restaurants attempt to and vanilla poppyseed cake get around this commission with fresh berries. problem by charging higher Available Tuesday through prices for third party delivSaturday, the packages can ery service orders, but those be ordered starting at 3 p.m. services usually have a clause daily. Call 413-789-1267 for embedded in their contracts information or to place an with individual restaurants order. that requires “price parity” across delivery and to-go • Back in 2015 Danny Meyservices, even if the order is a ers, the CEO of the Union Square Hospitality Group curbside pickup.

The business model for in New York City, took aim at third-party delivery services a tipping system he labeled may prove untenable, at least as “broken,” replacing it with

The Federal Restaurant & Bar in Agawam continues to offer its Federal Family Packages as a take-out alternative.

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the package experience.

The BBQ Family Packs are “heat ‘n’ eat”; they can be pre-ordered for curbside pickup or local delivery.

Chez Josef has also been featuring, on a limited-time-only basis, Polish Themed Family Packs that feature kielbasa, stuffed cabbage, potato pancakes, and Polish cucumber salad as well as a dessert option.

Call 413-355-5393 for additional details or to place an order.

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what he christened as Hospitality Included, an upward revision of menu prices that substituted for the revenue traditional tipping practices generated.

Late last month Meyers abandoned Hospitality Included, reopening his New York City restaurants with a traditional tip-based menu pricing structure.

Blaming “cultural norms” and the currently tenuous nature of the restaurant business, Union Square Hospitality Group locations now once again rely on tips as part of the compensation their servers receive. Meyers continues, however, to be critical of the pay disparities between frontand back-of-the house that tipping creates.

• Restaurant Hospitality, along with the pork processor Smithfield Culinary, is promoting a Best Sandwiches in America 2020 competition.

• Responding to the shifting trends characteristic of pandemic-era dining, Denny’s Corp. has announced that it is streamlining the menu in its restaurant locations, optimizing it for off-premises sales and increased kitchen efficiency.

Denny’s has also supplemented its Shareable Family Packs, pick-up meals designed to accommodate four or five, with a carry-out selection of desserts and milkshakes.

The chain additionally revealed that it has closed 31 underperforming restaurants so far this year, citing precipitous declines in store revenue at those locations.

The Irish Cultural Center in West Springfield is promoting its Irish House Restaurant and Trinity Pub by serving a free scoop of ice cream with every meal purchased.

The Irish House is currently hosting guests on its spacious patio as well as on a socially distanced basis in its dining room. Dinner is served Wednesday through Saturday evenings from 5 p.m. until 9:30 p.m. Reservations are encouraged but walk-in patrons are accommodated as space permits.

The center sponsors live • Chez Josef in Agawam music, with specific performis promoting a weekend ers and dates listed at irish at-home dining option in the centerwne.org. Contact the form of its Chez 2 Go BBQ Irish Cultural Center at 413Family Packs.

Designed to satisfy five hun- 342-4358 for more details. gry souls, the packs include baby back ribs, mesquite • Dine Out Boston, grilled chicken, homestyle the restaurant week event mac and cheese, baked bean, sponsored twice a year by the coleslaw and cheddar corn Greater Boston Convention bread. & Visitors Bureau, begins Dessert in the form of asits summer-season run on sorted cupcakes is also part of SEE DINE, PAGE E11 Open to culinary professionals and their between-bread artistry (the competition does not include burger variations), the contest closes Aug. 28,.

There are no prizes beyond bragging rights, but winners in each category will be showcased in the October issue of Restaurant Hospitality and on Restaurant-Hospitality. com.

Official contest rules and entry forms are available online at the website.

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5 great wines that, yes, come in a box

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Max’s Tavern at the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame in Springfield is hosting a weekly series of dining events. (DON TREEGER / THE REPUBLICAN FILE PHOTO)

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• Max’s Tavern at the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame in Springfield is hosting a weekly series of dining events.

These “Tavern Tastings,” created by Executive Chef Nate Waugaman, are special prix fixe menus paired with hand crafted cocktails.

• Dunkin’, the CanThe inaugural tasting was ton-based coffee shop chain, a five-course experience that is treating members of its included the likes of a corn loyalty program, DD Perks, fritter, an heirloom cherry to a pair of freebies this tomato salad, a seafood month. course of sea scallops, and a On “Free Coffee Mondays” prime New York strip steak.

DD Perks members can A dessert course is also part claim a free medium cup of of the tastings lineup. hot or iced coffee with the Menus change weekly purchase of any food item. and are typically available Free Coffee Mondays runs anytime between 5 and through Monday.

8:30 p.m. Reservations are “Free Donut Fridays” is a required. reprise of an DD Perks benFor details on this week’s efit that was available earlier Tavern Tastings, contact this year. On Fridays through Max’s Tavern at 413-746Aug. 21, DD Perks members 6299. get a free classic donut with Hugh Robert is a faculty the purchase of any beverage. member in Holyoke Community College’s hospitality and Both offers are subject to culinary arts program and has some limitations as to the nearly 45 years of restaurant products eligible. and educational experience.

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• The Student Prince Cafe and Fort Restaurant in downtown Springfield has extended its hours and is once again open on Sundays, serving from 11 a.m. to 6 p.m. As of Aug. 6 brunch has resumed as well. The restaurant is currently featuring its “Tomahawk Steak for Two,” a shareable-sized, bonein ribeye cut. The steak is available Friday and Saturday evenings both inside the restaurant and outside on the Fort Street dining space.

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Mention “box wine” to many people and they’ll likely say words like “cheap” or “tacky” or “bad.”

Sure, there are definitely some so-called “bad” box wines out there.

But there are also plenty of bad wines that come in bottles or cans.

It’s simply a matter of finding the “right” box wine.

Trust me. Box wines have come a long way since the days of bland, generic wine in a box.

Now, you can find many great, flavorful wines that just happen to be in a box.

And best of all, box wines stay fresh much longer than a bottle of wine, which normally needs to be finished within a day or two before it looses its unique flavors.

In contrast, most box wines last about 30 days or so (sometimes less) after you first take a glass of wine out of the box.

One thing I would not do with box wine is save an unopened box for years the way you can with certain bottled wines, which often benefit from aging. In my experience, box wines don’t

Sunday.

Organized under the tag line of “Dining Out Together Again,” Dine Out Boston has recruited more than a hundred eateries. Prices for special three-course menus are set for lunch at $15/$20/$25 and for dinner at $28/$33/$38. The restaurant week runs through Aug. 28 but doesn’t include Aug. 22.

A complete directory of participating establishments can be found at bostonusa.com.

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Most of the box wines recommended this week contain 3 liters of wine, which is the equivalent of 4 standard bottles of wine.

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get better over time. These are wines meant to be enjoyed now.

And yes, best of all, many box wines cost far less than what you would spend on the same amount of wine that comes in a bottle. Most of the box wines recommended this week contain 3 liters of wine, which is the equivalent of 4 standard bottles of wine. And in each case, all of the wines cost less than $5 a bottle.

So without further ado, here are my five favorite box wines, many of which you can find in many, local wine stores.

Wine recommendations • 2018 Bota Box Merlot California ($16.98 for 3 liter box at Table & Vine in West Springfield) • 2019 Bota Box Sauvignon Blanc ($16.98 for 3 liter box at Table & Vine) • Entremontes Red Wines ($18 suggested retail price for 5 liter box) • Domaine Bousquet Cabernet Sauvignon ($20 SRP for 3 liter box) • Domaine Bousquet Malbec ($20 SRP for 3 liter box)

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it came from a box. More mild compared to Sauvignon Blancs from New Zealand, this refreshing white wine has hints of pear, melon, rose petals and a hint of fresh-picked concord grapes. A real gem at a great price.

• Entremontes Red Wines Location – Portugal Grape – Blend of several red Wine tasting notes grapes • 2018 Bota Box Merlot Tasting notes – This next California box wine is one of my wife’s Location – California favorite box wines – and for Grape – Merlot good reason. This muscular, Tasting notes – Like the meaty, earthy red wine from other red box wines recomPortugal abounds with flavor, mended this week, what I including hints of roasted love most about the Bota Box blackberries, cherries and a Merlot is its dry, flinty, earthy dash toasted chestnuts and flavors and aromas. There’s almonds. Honestly, this wine also a hint of caramel, cherry is hands down one of the and almonds coated in sea best values when it comes salt. The bottom line – this to full-bodied, flavorful red is one of the most beautiwines. ful, mass market box wines widely available throughout • Domaine Bousquet Cabernet Sauvignon the country.

Location – Mendoza, Argen• 2019 Bota Box Sauvignon tina Blanc Grape – Cabernet Sauvignon Location – Chile Tasting notes – Made completely with organic grapes Grape – Sauvignon Blanc from Argentina’s famed Tasting notes – I wanted to single out this outstandMendoza region, Domaine ing white wine because of Bousquet just might be one its crisp, clean, dry finish. If of the world’s best affordable this wine was served to most wine producers. No matter people in a glass, they would what wine they make, Domaine Bousquet seems to hit likely never even suspect

it out of the park. The same is true with this outstanding, • Domaine Bousquet understated, full-bodied Malbec Cabernet Sauvignon. Here, Location – Mendoza, Argenthe fruit flavors (blackberries, tina Grape – Malbec plums) are muted, dry and last Tasting notes – Mention a full 30 seconds after each Malbec and most wine lovers taste. Highly recommend.

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instantly think of Argentina’s Mendoza region. That’s why it came as no surprise that this luscious, organic wine from Domaine Bousquet was another bullseye. Compared to the Cabernet Sauvignon, the fruit flavors (plums, cherries, blackberries) are slightly more prominent but still extremely muted, understand and absolutely outrageously delicious, even a full month after first opening the box. Wow! Cheers!

Wine Press by Ken Ross appears on Masslive.com every Monday and in The Republican’s weekend section every Thursday. Follow Ken Ross on Twitter and Instagram and Facebook.

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