Amityville Horror film review notes staged scares and cast
A cinema goer’s take on The Amityville Horror film by Stuart Rosenberg. The reviewer praises atmosphere and effects while noting pacing flaws and overacting by some cast led by James Brolin and Margot Kidder. The piece discusses screenplay choices regarding the Lutz story and the film’s reception versus classics like Jaws and The Exorcist.
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Sandor Stern
George
Kathy Lutz
Stern
Lutzes
Dog
Long Island
Tly
Stuart Rosenberg
Irwin Allen
Rosenberg
Rod Steiger
Steiger
Don Stroud
James Brolin
Margot Kidder
Lois Lane
Brolin
Michael Sacks
Lutz
ACT Wagon at Manlius Glorified Circus Troupe Tonight
The Glory Wagon by ACT Wagon of Auburn performs at Beard Park Manlius at 7 p.m. Presented by the Town of Manlius Parks and Recreation Commission, the six member company features Eric Scheps in juggling and fire eating with Susan Hunter as choreographer and members Myra Oney James Comerford Katherine Murmane and James Huntley. The troupe is on its 18th annual summer tour ending with a 10 day run at the New York State Fair.
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Auburn
Beard Park
Town of
Manlius Parks and
Cortland
James Huntley
Auburn Civic Theater, Inc
New York State Fair
Cullum Plays Key Roles Across Two Shakespeare Festival Seasons
Jeanne Cullum, who starred in two Syracuse Stage productions, appears this summer in North Carolina Shakespeare Festival repertoire. She plays Hermia in A Midsummer Night's Dream, Lydia Languish in The Rivals, and Lady Percy in Henry IV Part 1. The trio of roles runs through August 19 at High Point Festival in High Point, North Carolina. Previously, she performed in Otherwise Engaged and The Glass Menagerie for Stage.
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Jeanne Cullum
Syracuse
North Carolina
Miss Cullum
Hermia
Lydia Languish
Sheridan
Lady Percy
Recitals for composer Frank DiGiacomo featured in two local programs
Central New York composer Frank DiGiacomo will be honored in two recitals. Saturday at 2 p.m. in Liverpool Public Library and August 12 at 4 p.m. in Skaneateles Public Library feature performers Karen L. Drumm flute James Lee Vatter piano and Trent Zorn tenor. The program includes Bach flute and piano sonata and minuet pieces Brahms Intermezzo Debussy Syrinx Faure Fantasie Chopin preludes and Honegger Danse de la Chevre plus Khachaturian Toscata.
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Liverpool Public Library
Skaneateles Public Library
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James Lee Vatter
Trent Zorn
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Sonata
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Debussy
Syrinx
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Chopin
Honegger
Khachaturian
Veteran Actor Jeans to Star in Never Too Late Comedy
Nicholas Saunders, a veteran actor with Broadway credits in Lady in the Dark and The Magnificent Yankee, will portray the mayor in the Sumner Arthur Long comedy Never Too Late. The five performance run opens tomorrow at 2 p.m. in the Civic Center Carrier Theater, sponsored by the Cultural Resources Council. Saunders’s career spans Sgt. Bilko television work, films such as Fail Safe and Bananas, and extensive off Broadway and stock appearances with stars including Gloria Swanson and Nancy Carroll.
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Gertrude Lawrence
Sumner Arthur Long
Civic Center
Carrier
Woodstock Playhouse
Cultural Resources Council
Louis Calhern
Dorothy Gish
Captain Barker
Phil Silvers
Sgt. Bilko
Saunders
Gloria Swanson
Nancy Carroll
Elissa Landi
Diana Barrymore
Eugenie Leontovich
Detweiler Designs Opera for Kennedy Center Terrace Theater
Lowell Detweiler, a frequent Lyrae stage designer, creates costumes for Jacques Offenbach's Christopher Columbus at Washington's Kennedy Center Terrace Theater. Debut set for tonight. Detweiler's credits include An Enemy of the People and Love Letters on Blue Paper. Lois Bewley serves as choreographer for the Offenbach production.
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Lyrae
Lowell Deweiler
Washington
Kennedy Center
Jacques Offenbach
Christopher Columbus
Terrace Theater
Detweiler
Blue Paper
Arnold Wesker
Sixties in review at Cedar Bay Park Aug 12
A Sixties revue Whatever Happened to Annette Funicello will be presented August 12 at 7 p.m. at Cedar Bay Park. Sponsored by Dewitt Parks and Recreation, the show features music by The Beach Boys The Beatles The Rolling Stones and Crosby Stills Nash and Young with an original script by Kevin S. Murray. Directed by Tank Steingrabber and musical direction by Barbara Jean Myers.
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Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young
Cedar Bay Park
Dewitt Parks and Recreation
Kevin S. Murray
Tank” Steingrabber
Barbara Jean Myers
Syracuse choreographer Corrigan reshapes Ballroom tour cast
Syracuse native Dick Corrigan restages Broadway choreography for Ballroom touring debut starring Dorothy Collins. He has danced and sung on Broadway in West Side Story and The Unsinkable Molly Brown, with summer stock credits in How to Succeed and Fiddler on the Roof. Corrigan studied at Cathedral High and Jacob’s Pillow, and his parents are Leo and (Mrs.) Corrigan of Minoa.
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John Raitt
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DeSilva St
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Moonraker Retains Run at Westhill Drive In
Cinema National decides to keep Moonraker over Moonraker at Westhill while The In Laws and Capricorn One join as North Drive In attractions starting the same day. Moonraker with Invasion of the Body Snatchers had been announced for the outdoor theater. Villain opens at Tri County and Fantasm will play only at DeWitt Drive In.
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Westhill
Capricorn
North Drive-In
Tri County
DeWitt Drive-In
Bolshoi Opens U S Tour Without Maya Plisetskaya
The Bolshoi Ballet begins its American tour at Lincoln Center State Theater without prima balerina Maya Plisetskaya who reportedly chose not to participate.
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Bolshoi Ballet
Lincoln Center
State Theater
Maya Plisetskaya
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