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THURSDAY-FRIDAY, JULY 19-20, 2012
ROBERT MOYNIHAN NIGHT AT THE OPERA
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Laura Jane Alexander helps customer Zoe Brickley, who is visiting family from Vermont, sample offerings at the Village Cobbler, which she and husband/partner Wayne Alexander moved to expanded quarters at 167 Main St. this summer.
Brian Paterno, proprietor of Paterno Brothers Sports, 83 Main St., reviews baseball-card inventory with staffers Phil Rodriguez, left, and Danny McCarty, right.
NDUCTION FANS, HERE’S WHAT’S NEW Servers Ashley Rowley, Cooperstown, and Tabatha Chase, Milford, polish the silver surface of an expanded full-service bar at the All American Cafe, Main Street at Pioneer Alley. Proprietor Rich Busse also added HD TVs to the seasonal operation for baseball fans.
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Bartender Jonathan Cook, Schenevus, taps a brew in the upstairs sports bar at the Back Alley Grille, 8 Hoffman Lane, as the Fisher family of Quinton, N.J., awaits dinner from a menu with a Southwest twist. Proprietor Roger Davidson works the counter at Council Rock Brewery, which features pub food and craft beers, including root beer for the kids, two miles south of Cooperstown at 4861 Route 28. Wife Maureen serves customers in the background.
Proprietor Angelo Carimando, Schenevus, chats with partner Tony Pepaj’s daughter, Stephanie, at Toscano Italian Grill & Bar, 64 Main St., which features a Northern Italian and Italian-Chinese Fusion menu. Carimando and Pepaj worked together at the Italian Kitchen, Oneonta, before opening their own enterprise in Cooperstown.
Ted Hargrove examines a new line in the store at TJ’s Place, 124 Main: Jewels By Deesign, featuring jeweler Terri-Jane (Pugliese) McCollough.
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The Glimmerglass Festival
Young Henry Wager is Winthrop to Elizabeth Futral’s Marian The Librarian in The Glimmerglass Festival’s production of “The Music Man.” He is the son of Nancy and Patrick Wager, Cooperstown, and grandson of retired SUNY Oneonta professor Walt Wager and his wife Ann.
The Con-Man Laid Bare In ‘Music Man’
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nly one music man? The cast of Meredith Willson’s popular work (it is even a fine movie) returns the superb artist, Dwayne Croft, to play the reformed rascal, Herr Dr. Professor Scoundrel Con-Man (but eventually reformed man in love) Harold Hill. He visits an Iowa town to sell band uniforms IF YOU GO: and instruThe next ments to “Music Man” the locals is at 7:30 – but hasn’t Friday, July one shred 20; “Armide” of musiand “Lost cal abilin the Stars” ity. Then, premiere this as one of weekend. Demy former tails at www. acquainglimmerglass. tances said org in a South Dakota dramatic production, “Viola.” That should have been “voila,” or maybe a translated “see there I told you so.” But as the professors nearly always say in their texts, the word simply “cannot be adequately translated.” Fortunately for all of us, Dwayne Croft has been translated to his Otsego origin, and, as Irish stage mothers invariably intone, “one can only hope” that he returns frequently in many roles (even some that are high fallutin’) to the Glimmerglass Festival, Opera, etc. One of the gems of criticism is “suspension of disbelief” Please See OPERA, B2
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