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‘SHE LOVES ME’ MUSICAL TAKES ‘WILL THEY OR WON’T THEY?’ TO A VERY FUNNY LEVEL

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Glenn McDonald for Triangle Today Playmakers and spent five weeks in Chapel Hill shaping and developing the new adaptation.

In show business it’s generally acknowledged that, all other things being equal, comedy is the hardest genre to pull off. Funny is an especially tricky adjective, and it resists dissection.

kidstown.triangletoday.com Sanderson was hired for her expertise in the genre.

Sanderson, a veteran theatrical director considers comedy maestro Blake Edwards her mentor. He’s the prime mover behind “Breakfast at Tiffany’s” and the Pink Panther films. Sanderson knows comedy, but she says an additional appeal with “She Loves Me” was the challenge of staging a classic and beloved musical.

Bearing that in mind, this season’s holiday offering from Playmakers Repertory Company is a very funny musical. “She Loves Me” is based on the 1937 play “Parfumerie” by Hungarian playwright Miklós László, featuring the romantic adventures of two store clerks, Christmas shopping season, and a knotty case of multiple mistaken identities.

Over the years the original play has been transposed into a parade of award-winning films and musicals. In 1940 it emerged as “The Shop Around the Corner” with James Stewart and Margaret Sullivan. The Broadway musical adaptation popped up in 1963, and again in 1993 and 2016 revivals. The story was perhaps most famously reshuffled into the 1998 film “You’ve Got Mail” with Tom Hanks and Meg Ryan.

The new production is based on the 2016 Tony-Award winning adaptation, which starred Laura Benanti,

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“If you were to name the top five musicals about love, I would put this one right up there,” says director Kirsten Sanderson, speaking by phone from her home in California. Sanderson was brought on for the project by

“She Loves Me” presented by PlayMakers Repertory Company When: Shows through Dec. 9.

Dec. 4 is community night, with all tickets $15 for general admission seating. Post show discussions Nov. 21 and 25. Open captioned performance Dec. 2 at 2 p.m.

Where: Joan H. Gillings Center for Dramatic Art, 120 Country Club Road, Chapel Hill Tickets: Start at $15; Students tickets start at $10 Info: 919-962-7529 or playmakersrep.org

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CHRISTMAS SPECIAL TV GUIDE TONIGHT

The Christmas Pact (8 p.m., Lifetime) - In this original new movie, Ben and Sadie have made a pact since childhood to always keep the spirit of Christmas alive in their hearts.

A Majestic Christmas (8 p.m., Hallmark) - In this new Hallmark movie, Nell’s bracelet slips into a Salvation Army pot and when she tries to retrieve it, Connor accuses her of stealing. Later, Nell, an architect, learns he’s the client who wants to turn her hometown’s Majestic Theater into a multiplex. Though Nell and the town want to preserve The Majestic, she and Connor still develop an attraction.

National Lampoon’s Christmas Vacation (8:15 p.m., AMC) - The Griswolds spend the holiday with relatives in this 1999 holiday comedy, including a country cousin who arrives in an RV. It stars Chevy Chase, Beverly D’Angelo, Randy Quaid and Diane Ladd.

Christmas Cupid’s Arrow (9 p.m., ION) - In this new ION movie, an English lit professor has a long history of picking the wrong men. After her younger sister announces she’s pregnant, the professor decides she’s going to make a real effort to find Mr. Right on a dating website.

Life-Size 2: A Christmas Eve (9 p.m., Freeform) - The young toy company CEO is in the middle of a quarter-life crisis, until her old doll comes to life help her get back on track.

A Star For Christmas (10 p.m., Lifetime) - Another new original film. In this one, a recent breakup throws a baker’s life into chaos. But things start looking up with a handsome but troubled actor comes into the store and the two fall in love.

Jingle All the Way (10:30 p.m., AMC) - A crazed postman (Sinbad), a tough policeman and a shady Santa impede a workaholic (Arnold Schwarzenegger) seeking a coveted toy for his son.

MONDAY, DEC. 3

The Great Christmas Light Fight (8 p.m., ABC) Tonight’s show features homes in Kokomo, Indiana; Weirsdale, Florida; Grand Rivers, Kentucky; Clifton, Ohio; Rockaway Beach, New York; Fox River Grover, Illinois; and San Francisco.

The Santa Clause 2 (8 p.m., AMC) - An ad man (Tim Allen) has to marry by Christmas Eve or he will stop being Santa Claus forever.

Holiday Baking Championship (9 p.m., Food) - The five bakers have to update traditional rugelach with unexpected flavors like cardamom, grapefruit, guava paste, peanut butter or chai.

Pop Up Santa Holiday Special (9:30 p.m., Freeform) - A special celebrating the spirit of the holiday season through heartwarming moments like a home giveaway, a baby shower at a military base and a celebration for kids at Children’s Hospital in Los Angeles.

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How Raleigh’s greenway trails went from nuisance to amenity Shelbi Polk for Triangle Today The section of the Walnut Creek Greenway Trail leading up to Lake Johnson is crowded in the early evening. Runners and bikers work up a sweat avoiding couples and families out for a leisurely stroll.

Brian Purdy, principal land planner for McAdams, explained that developers are actively looking to create trails and green space on their developments because “greenways are even more attractive than parks on surveys.”

Once, not everyone was excited about Raleigh’s greenways. Many homeowners and developers feared that greenways would bring crime into their neighborhood. But citywide surveying from 2014 shows that Raleigh residents prioritize greenways over other kinds of park facilities.

When the first proposal for the greenways was introduced in the ‘70s, the trails were mainly seen as a way to protect Raleigh’s stream corridors.

Recreation and transportation were happy side effects.

Iona Thomas has worked on greenways for years, currently in public sector projects at McAdams, a Durham-based civil engineering firm. Thomas said that anyone who is familiar with Raleigh is excited to hear about her work A pair of cyclists stop on the dam at Lake Raleigh to enjoy the on greenways, but it sunset along the Walnut Creek Trail of the Raleigh Greenway wasn’t always like that. system at N.C. State’s Centennial Campus. Robert Willett Thomas told me about one town home development that tried to keep their residents safe from greenways. The developers erected large walls around the community for their residents’ privacy. But a few residents tried the half-finished trail behind their complex, and they loved it.

One of the residents decided to kick a panel out of the privacy wall for better access. Instead of repairing the fence, the complex’s owners decided to build a gate. Today, the greenways are listed as one of the property’s amenities.

Raleigh now has more than 100 miles of paved greenway trails, with plans to invest in more, and developers are eager to keep their properties connected to the trails. “Greenways are the new golf courses for developers,” Thomas said.

T.J. McCourt, of Raleigh’s Parks, Recreation and Cultural Resources Department, says that he’s seen big changes in the way people view greenways.

“Basically, we’ve seen two big shifts in public perception of the greenways,” McCourt said.

The first change is that the public rates their health and wellness as a higher priority, which has made them a marketed amenity.

The second change is one of practicality. McCourt says that there is increasing demand for the greenway system to function as a comprehensive transportation network. “As Raleigh grows, people are looking for more active transportation, an alternative to cars,” McCourt said.

He said that the city used to acquire land for greenways as they went and think of them as individual, linear parks. But now his team is working more closely with transportation planners and the development community to connect different pieces of the greenways and develop a comprehensive system.

“More and more we’re realizing that the future of the greenway system needs to function as a transportation system as well,” McCourt said.

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‘Green Book’ film spotlights piece of Southern history Bridgette A. Lacy for Triangle Today

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“Green Book” is now playing in movie theaters.

For African-Americans traveling throughout the United States, especially in the South from 1936-1966, “The Negro Motorist Green Book” was a must-have.

The book provided listings of businesses — lodging, tailors, barber and beauty shops, gas stations and restaurants — who would welcome them in a time when discrimination was rampant.

slice of American history — is in the national spotlight, thanks to the new film “Green Book” starring Viggo Mortensen and Academy Award winner Mahershala Ali. The film, inspired by the Green Book, opens Nov. 21 and is based on the real 1962 concert tour of Jamaican-American classical pianist Donald Shirley and his Italian-American chauffeur Tony “Lip” Vallelonga.

“It was a tool for people of color,” says Earl L. Ijames, a curator and historian at the North Carolina Museum of History. “It was almost like a modern day version of the Underground Railroad, except it was written down.”

While the film focuses on the friendship of the odd couple, forged while traveling through the Deep South in a 1962 Cadillac Sedan de Ville, it doesn’t shy away from showing how the renowned musician faced discrimination.

The book — for many an unknown

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