N.Y.STATE: JERRY GRETZINGER IN FOREVER PLAID AT FORT SALEM
Forever Plaid has been charming audiences for over twenty years, and it opens at MAINSTAGE AT FORT SALEM THEATER (11 East Broadway, Salem, NY - 518-854-9200 - ) on Friday, July 9th, running Fridays & Saturdays at 8:00 pm and Sundays at 2:00 pm through July 18th. In the early nineteen sixties, a male close harmony singing group, specializing in fifties songs, was on its way to its best booking ever when its four members were killed by a bus of Catholic school girls on their way to see the Beatles on the Ed Sullivan Show. Though a metaphor for the death of easy-listening at the hand of mop-top rock, it's scarcely a scenario one would expect could generate the most successful musical revue of the 1990's. Forever Plaid features some the best-loved tunes from the middle of the last century, including "Three Coins in a Fountain," "Love Is a Many Splendored Thing," "Undecided," "Perfidia," "Heart and Soul," "Lady of Spain," "Moments to Remember" and "Shangri La." WRGB news anchor Jerry Gretzinger suggested that he'd like to appear in a production of Forever Plaid to the Fort's artistic director, Jay Kerr. Gretzinger enlisted the participation of Luis Manzi, a singer/actor from Springfield, Mass., where the two sang in a Plaid production eight years ago. Gretzinger's pal, Sev Moro, a staple in the capital region theater scene, had always wanted a chance to sing in the show, and now has that chance. The quartet is completed by New York State Theatre Institute and Capital Rep veteran, David Girard. Musical direction is by David Hancock Turner in his third year at Fort Salem; direction and musical staging is by Susan Cicarelli Caputo, who has choreographed and acted at NYSTI, Cap Rep, and Fort Salem. Call for cover/minimum information.
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