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Year 30, No. 1
SPECIAL 2-WEEK EDITION • NOW Celebrating 30 Years!
August 27 – September 9, 2014
Walnut Street Theatre for Kids Presents “Transition of the Family Business” Panel Discussion Disney’s Alice in Wonderland Jr. Song” and “Zip-A-Dee-Doo-Dah.” The Walnut Street Theatre for Kids Series is celebrated for its commitment to encouraging parents (and grandparents) to read to their kids. Families can read together, and then discover a whole new level of imagination when they see the shows live onstage. The Walnut takes pride in bringing families together and beginning a creative conversation through reading and the arts.
VoxAmaDeus Starts Concert Season Page 6
Joseph Tully (Tweedle Dum), Emily Gallagher (Alice) and Ally Duvak (Tweedle Dee) in “Alice in Wonderland Jr.” at Walnut Street Theatre. Photo/Mark Garvin
93-Year-Old Swimmer at Martins Run Page 8
ids and their adult friends will love the WST for Kids’ production of Disney’s Alice in Wonderland Jr. Based on the book by Lewis Carroll and the unforgettable 1952 Disney film, this hour-long musical will be performed at Walnut Street Theatre September 20 through September 28, 2014. Audiences are invited to travel down the rabbit hole and join Alice’s madcap adventures as she chases the White Rabbit, gets tied up with Tweedle Dee and Tweedle Dum, and beats the Queen of Hearts at her own game! The show is full of colorful energy with Disney songs including “I’m Late,” “The Un-birthday
K Education News Pages 11 & 12
Celebrating Jewish Culture and Community Pages 8 & 9
Next Issue: September 10!
Disney’s Alice in Wonderland Jr. is based on Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland, one of the most famous books written by English author Charles Lutwidge Dodgson. Published under his pen name Lewis Carroll in 1865, the book was met with great commercial success. In 1898, Alice had become the most popular children’s book in England. By 1932, it became one of the most popular in the world. This led to adaptations including Broadway productions (1915, 1931, 1932), comic books, works of art, television series and films. Walt Disney produced one of the most successful adaptions, an animated feature film. It received an Academy Award nomination for Best Score. Many of the songs in the film are heard in Alice in Wonderland Jr. Ashley Kerns returns to WST for Kids to direct, following last season’s production of Seussical Jr. A South Philadelphia resident, she has been Assistant Director for Walnut Mainstage productions, including Oscar Wilde’s An Ideal Husband, Agatha Christie’s The MouseSee Disney’s “Alice in Wonderland Jr.” on page 5
Berny Brownstein, of Bala Cynwyd, of the Brownstein Group advertising firm, is one of the panelists on the “Transition of the Family Business” free seminar, hosted by Shechtman Marks Devor PC on September 11. erny Brownstein, of Bala Cynwyd, chairman and chief creative officer of the Brownstein Group, is one of the panelists at the free seminar which the accounting firm Shechtman Marks Devor PC is hosting on Thursday, September 11, 2014, from 8 a.m. to 11 a.m. at their main floor conference room, 2000 Market Street, in Philadelphia, exploring the theme, “Transition of the Family Business.” Brownstein, chairman of the Brownstein Group, and his son Marc, of Gladwyne, president and CEO of the Brownstein Group, are among the business people on the panel. Chuck Shechtman, of Wynnewood, founding shareholder of SMD, says the firm hosts three of these important business seminars each year. Some of the other panelists are also Main Liners, including Sam Menaged, JD, of Ardmore, founder and president of The Renfrew Centers, the nation’s first in-patient facilities for eating disorders. For information and registration contact Monica Mott at Shechtman Marks Devor PC at 267-886-1107.
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Paintings by Gerry Tuten at Villanova University Art Gallery aterworks,” an exhibit of Gerry Tuten’s abstract acrylic canvasses and large ink on paper scrolls, launches the 2014 - ’15 season of the Villanova University Art Gallery. Currently open to the public, the exhibit comprises 21 large works. Each one, directly or subtly, has a reference to water. “Fumbling Toward “Space,” 72 inches by 72 inches, Ecstasy,” a six-and-one-half-foot by ten-foot acrylic on acrylic on canvas, by Gerry Tuten. canvas, is an abstract painting of a landscape’s reflecA free, public reception to meet the tion on water. “Red Dragon,” an almost equally large ink Villanova-resident painter will take and acrylic scroll on rice paper, was created during place Friday, September 5, from 5 the artist’s 2007 art residency in Beijing, China, where to 7 p.m., in the gallery located in she added calligraphic markings to her pallet. the Connelly Center on University A free, public reception to meet the Villanova-resigrounds. dent painter will take place Friday, September 5, from 5 to 7 p.m., in the gallery located in the Connelly Center on University grounds. Refreshments will be served. Convenient on-campus parking is available. The exhibit continues to October 2. Tuten constantly searches for subtle and not-so-subtle energies in our visual world, as well
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See “Waterworks” Exhibit at Villanova on page 5