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October 22, 2014 | forsythherald.com | 75,000 circulation Revue & News, Johns Creek Herald, Milton Herald & Forsyth Herald combined | 50¢ | Volume 17, No. 42
‘Gypsy: A Musical Fable’ at Cumming Playhouse Runs through Nov. 9 By CRYSTAL LEDFORD news@forsythherald.com CUMMING, Ga. — What has been described by many theater critics as one of the best American musicals in history began a three-week run at the Cumming Playhouse, 101 School St., on Oct. 17. BK Productions presents “Gypsy: A Musical Fable,” based on the 1957 memoirs of Gypsy Rose Lee, a famous burlesque performer, actress and author in the 1940s and ‘50s. The musical is based loosely on the book and focuses on Lee’s childhood and teen years, growing up on the vaudeville stage in the 1920s under the direction of her mother, Mama Rose.
The cast of “Gypsy: A Musical Fable” fill up the Cumming Playhouse stage with fun choreography.
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See GYPSY, Page 12
Tornado touches down with little warning NWS, local officials confirm Alpharetta not included in tornado warning zone BY CANDY WAYLOCK candy@Northfulton.com NORTH FULTON, Ga. – As a tornado touched down early Oct. 14 in North Fulton, traveling along a 7.5-mile path that would take it through Alpharetta and into East Cobb County, many Alpharetta residents were awakened not by
sirens, but generally by howling winds and flying debris. Social media lit up with reports of people finding trees down, backyards destroyed, broken fencing and in one case, a trampoline resting in a neighbor’s tree several hundred feet away. “Woah! Nothing like being awakened to hubs saying ‘we
need to go downstairs now!’” wrote Donna Savas, a resident of Greemont Walk in the area along Rucker Road hit hardest by the storm. “Winds horrible and branches hitting house – now the power’s out, basketball hoop is down, neighbor trees down. And where were those alarms that they test every month?” Turns out, Alpharetta never fell under a tornado watch by
See TORNADO, Page 9
Damage reported at the Mayfield Place subdivision, which is off Mayfield Road in Alpharetta. This area was hit by a tornado.
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