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Katie Whittemore, Alan Jones, and Viviene Reiner play rehearse “Bells Are Ringing.” Photo by Katherine Clark
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‘Bells’ to ring in Elizabethtown performance
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katherine@denpubs.com ELIZABETHTOWN Ñ The Elizabethtown Social Center Õ s community actors will bring to life the story of pre-cell phones and pre-answering machines for a comedic love story of Ò Bells Are Ringing,Ó opening April 18. This show is set in 1956, at Susanswerphone, an answering service in Manhattan where a real person answered the telephone, if someone couldnÕ t do it themselves. Through the interactive job, leading character Ella Peterson played by Elizabethtown-Lewis Central School junior Katie Whittimore, an operator for Susanswerphone, finds it easy to get
involved in the lives of the people who call her. The audience will be taken for an adventure as they go with Ella, who plays matchmaker, portrays Santa Claus, suggests old-fashioned remedies to ailments, finds employment and even falls in love with a client via the phone before she meets him. Ò I really think the audience will love Ella for how quirky, energetic, and helpful she is and how unafraid she is to be herself,Ó said Whittimore said. The 34-member cast of ELCS students and community actors will deliver the audience back to the 1950s when men wore fedoras and woman wore white gloves and everyone needed to use a
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rotary telephone for their social media. Ò I tried to keep the experience as an authentic 1950s style and how men and women went about on a day-to-day basis,Ó said play Director Susan ForneyHughes. For some of the students with touchscreen phones in their pockets, rotary telephone and typewriters were something new. Whittimore said when they first started rehearsals everyone needed a crash course in 1950s technology. Ò We all sort of enjoyed using the rotary phone and thought it was funny that you have to turn the numbers to make a call,Ó said Whittimore.
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ELIZABETHTOWNÑ Essex County Lawmakers have come up with a compromise when it comes to the matter of when Ò closing timeÓ will be here. Members of the Public Safety Committee voted April 8 to turn back the clock on the time bars and restaurants can serve alcohol Ñ from 4 a.m. until 3 a.m. Last month, the committee tabled a resolution that would have moved last call up to 2 a.m. Mac MacDevitt of the Prevention Team presented the committee with information on cutting back on serving times. Ò The CDC is very concerned about this,Ó MacDevitt said. Ò They see the way that alcohol is being used in this country as really an epidemic that something has to be done about. The alcohol industry is gearing up. They are getting very clever on how they market to young people and New York state is open for business when it comes to alcohol right now.Ó MacDevitt said that any decision made by the board to change the hours would have to be reviewed and agreed upon by the New York State Liquor Authority. “They will make the final decision. They will hold a public hearing here to collect information before making a final decision,” he said. “Alcohol in this state is very highly regulated here in the state.Ó Members of the committee asked MacDevitt if keeping drinking within state regulated facilities would be a better way to deter the misuse of alcohol.
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