NYS: JERRY GRETZINGER SALUTES SINATRA WITH A SWING BAND
Channel 6 news anchor Jerry Gretzinger continues his extra-curricular life at TheMAINSTAGE AT FORT SALEM THEATER (11 East Broadway, Salem, NY - 518-854-9200) on Saturday, April 28th, at 8:00 pm, in his Sinatra tribute concert, Mostly Frank. He is backed with classic swing band arrangements by members of Albany's popular Swing Docs band, professionals themselves who moonlight as musicians. Jerry Gretzinger joined the WRGB news staff in 2002, and became co-anchor of the five o'clock news, with Liz Bishop, in 2007. He grew up in Kingston (NY) in a musical family. His father, superintendent of the Kingston School System, also moonlighted, performing leads in community theater musicals. Much of Gretzinger's singing has been in musical roles. Albany audiences have seen him in several shows, including The Producers and Chicago, and at Fort Salem in the 2010 hit production of Forever Plaid. Mostly Frank began as Jerry Gretzinger's first solo cabaret at Fort Salem in late 2010. The following spring, he and Fort Salem's Artistic Director, Jay Kerr, who serves as Gretzinger's musical director, added the swing band in a performance at WAMC's Linda Norris Auditorium, which has been broadcast several times on the public radio station. It is that group that comes to the Fort's Mainstage. Mostly Frank swings with vintage arrangements of "All of Me," "Fly Me to the Moon," and "That's Life," and pays homage Frank's unique skill interpreting lyrics over his sixty year career, with ballads such as "In the Wee Small Hours" and the beautiful Jobim bossa nova tune, "Wave." The $25 admission includes a $5 credit toward coffee and dessert provided by Norene and Fred's of Salem.
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