Sunday Scoop Week of 5/2/15 What's Happening This Week or Coming Up Soon

BABYSITTING, COMEDY, AND A DINNER

Where: Gotham Comedy Club
             208 West 23rd Street (Between 7th and 8th Ave)

Babysitting: Drop off at 5:15 PM at TADA! Youth Theater

                   15 West 28th Street (Between 5th and Broadway)

When: Friday, May 8th Doors open at 5:30 PM, Show is at 6:00 PM

All proceeds of this evening go to TADA! Youth Theater

After the Show: Make an Open Table reservation at Il Bastardo Ristorantefor a post-show dinner and they will donate a portion of food proceeds to TADA! as well.

For more information or to order tickets to the show and babysitting go to  http://www.jotformpro.com/form/50995477242970

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CAMDEN RIVERSHARKS UPCOMING EVENTS

Campbell's Field

      401 N. Delaware Avenue

Camden, NJ

Friday May 8th: Come on down for Game Show Night and a magnet schedule giveaway presented by MJ Corp!

Saturday May 9th: Check out local family-friendly businesses at our Kid Expo Day and stay for the post-game fireworks! As part of Stamp Out Hunger presented by the Food Bank of South Jersey, if you bring three canned goods per person to the game, you'll get in free!

Sunday May 10th: Happy Mother's Day! Join us for our MOTHER'S DAY BRUNCH or take advantage of our special $5 Mother's Day ticket offer!  Featuring a character appearance by Captain America and pregame autographs, as part of Family Fun Day Sunday! 

Monday May 11th: Our first Baseball in Education Day presented by McGough Bus Company of the season!

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BEST MOM EVER CONTEST

Where: iPlay America

            110 Schank Road

             Freehold, NJ 

When: Now thru Sunday, May 10 

iPlay America will hold its second annual “Best  Mom Ever” contest with the grand prize winner announced  May 18. The contest began Thursday, April 23. Entries must show or tell why that mom is the best mom ever through an image or 100-word story. Anyone age 18 or older may enter his/her mother or assist younger children by completing the entry on their behalf at iPlayAmerica.com/bestmomever  through May 10. Voting runs through May 17. The public is invited to vote for their favorite. A link to vote appears on the nomination page. The mom with the most votes will win a fantastic prize package. The grand-prize winning 

mom will receive:

• Ocean Place Resort Deluxe Overnight Stay and Spa Package 

• Alex and Ani Bracelet Courtesy of Gary Michaels Fine Jewelry 

• Sephora Gift Basket

• $100 Gift Card to Café Luna in Old Bridge

• Car Detail from Ray Catena Lexus

• Family Four Pack of Ride Passes to iPlay America

The winning nominator will receive an iPlay America Party for 15 people. Second-, third-, 

and fourth-place finishers will also receive prizes. A panel of judges will also select one 

“iPlay America’s Choice” winner from the pool of entries to receive runner-up prizes. 

Details, terms and conditions are posted at iPlayAmerica.com.

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SUSSEX COUNTY MINERS DAILY PROMOTIONS

Where: Skylands Stadium

             94 Championship Place

             Augusta, NJ

When: 2015 Baseball season 

           (season opens May 22, 2015; home opener May 25, 2015 7:05 PM)

Family Fun Sundays: Every Sunday when the Miners are at home. Special deals geared toward families that will change week-to-week.

Munchy Mondays: Every Monday when the Miners are at home. Special food deals that will change week-to-week.

Two for Tuesdays: Every Tuesday when the Miners are at home. Deal will change week-to-week. 

Kids Go Free Wednesdays: Every Wednesday when the Miners are at home. Children under 12 get free admission.

Cheap Cheap Thursdays: Every Thursday when the Miners are at home. Special discounts that will change week-to-week.

Movie Night Fridays: Every Friday night, the Miners will play a movie on their brand new videowall. When the Miners are at home, the movie will follow the game. If the Miners are not home, they will still have movie night.

Fireworks Saturdays: Fireworks after every Miners home game on a Saturday night. Dates: May 30, June 20, June 27, July 18, August 1, August 15, August 22, August 29, September 5
(11 total fireworks nights, including Opening Day and the Independence Day celebration on July 2)

For more information or to order go to http://sussexcountyminers.com//

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NATIONAL HIGHSCHOOL THEATER AWARDS

Where: Minskoff Theatre

             200 W. 45th Street

             New York, New York

When: June 29, 2015 7:30 PM

Tickets are on sale now at a range of $39 to $79 for the  Seventh Annual Ceremony of the National Highschool Theater Awards. High school students from across America will compete for the coveted Jimmy™ Award for Best Performance by an Actor and Best Performance by an Actress at the seventh annual presentation. The talent showcase will feature dynamic ensemble and solo performances.

Student performers qualify to compete in the national program by winning top honors at regional high school musical theatre awards competitions presented by Broadway League member performing arts centers. Over 1,000 high schools and 50,000 students participate in these annual events. Since its inception in 2009, the NHSMTA has enabled over $1,000,000 in university and conservatory scholarships to be awarded to talented students at the national and local level—several of whom have already been cast in Broadway, Touring and West End productions.

For more information or to order tickets go to  NHSMTA.COM orTICKETMASTER.COM 

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 NEWS FROM O&M Co.

Billy Porter Returns to His Tony Winning Role in Kinky Boots

Where:Al Hirschfield Theater

            302 W. 45th Street

            New York, NY

When: From April 28, 2015 on

After a three (3) month hiatus, Billy Porter has returned to the role of Lola in KInky Boots. Kyle Taylor Parker  who played the role in Porter's  absence will return to playing Lola in the First National Touring production.Porter originated the role when the show opened in April of 2014. He won a 2014 Tony Award for Best Actor in a Leading Role.  Parker made his debut his Broadway debut as an angel in the original production.

Kinky Boots tells the uplifting and heartwarming tale of Charlie Price, a young man reluctantly taking over his family’s struggling business. Charlie meets and finds inspiration in Lola and together, the unlikely pair finds that they have more in common than they ever dreamed possible… and discovers that when you change your mind about someone, you can change your whole world.  The winner of six 2013 Tony® Awards, including Best Musical, Kinky Boots features a Tony Award-winning score by pop icon Cyndi Lauper, a book by Tony® Award-winner Harvey Fierstein, and direction and choreography by Tony® Award-winner Jerry Mitchell. 

Tickets  are available for purchase:

In person at the Al Hirschfeld Theatre box office 

(Monday – Saturday, 10am – 8pm; Sunday,12pm – 6 pm), 

Online at www.telecharge.com,

By calling Telecharge at 800-432-7250 or 212-239-6200.

For more information go to http://kinkybootsthemusical.com/

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“COMPOSITION…MASTER-PIECES…IDENTITY”

A NEW SOLO WORK CONCEIVED AND PERFORMED

BY OBIE AWARD WINNER DAVID GREENSPAN

AND

THE TMT STEIN SPRING LAB:

“WHEN THIS YOU SEE REMEMBER ME”

Where: The Connelly Theater

             220 E. 4th Street

             New York, NY

When:May 27 - June 27, 2015

The Target Margin Theater will end it's 2015 season and its exploration of the works of Getrude Stein with Composition…Master-Pieces…Identity, a new solo performance piece from Obie Award-winner David Greenspan, and The TMT Stein Spring Lab: When This You See Remember Me. Both shows are world premieres and will run in tandem.

Composition…Master-Pieces…Identity will bring to life two “lectures” and a “play” by Stein, exploring ideas of celebrity, authenticity, outlaws, classics, self-consciousness, and writing for an audience. Greenspan’s “lively trickster mind” is the icing and the cake of our Stein season.

Performances

Wednesday, May 27 at 7:30pm

Thursday, May 28 at 7:30pm Special Benefit Performance

Friday, May 29 at 7:30pm

Saturday, May 30 at 5:00pm

Sunday, May 31 at 5:00pm

Monday, June 1 at 7:30pm

Thursday, June 4 at 7:30pm

Friday, June 5 at 9:30pm

Saturday, June 6 at 5:00pm

Thursday, June 11 at 7:30pm

Friday, June 12 at 7:30pm

Saturday, June 13 at 5:00pm

Thursday, June 25 at 7:30pm

Friday, June 26 at 7:30pm

Saturday, June 27 at 7:30pm

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May 30, 2015 – June 22, 2015

TMT Stein Spring Lab: When This You See Remember Me

Yes is For a Very Young Man

Lead Artists: Jessica Brater and Natalie Robin

Gertrude Stein loved melodramas.  In 1947, she published one.  Yes is For a Very Young Man ensnares the “silence stillness and quick movement” of melodrama in a Steinian landscape of language.

Performances

Saturday, May 30 at 7:30pm

Sunday, May 31 at 2:00pm

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Paisieu: A Work of Pure Imagination in Which No Reminiscence Intrude

Lead Artist: Jesse Freedman

Text: Paisieu

A virtuosic grammar play that may or may not take place at the 1904 Worlds Faire in Saint Louis Missury and may or may not be about turn of the century Race science, Doctor Seuss Doctor Pepper and was Stein a Fascist.

on a double bill with…

Rose Love Pepe

Lead Artist: Handan Ozbilgin

Text: The World Is Round

Black Dog named Pepe, White Dog named Love and a willful little girl named Rosa. It is their story. Their story of impossible love.

Performances

Wednesday, June 3 at 7:30pm

Thursday, June 4 at 9:30pm

Friday, June 5 at 7:30pm

Saturday, June 6 at 7:30pm

Sunday, June 7 at 5:00pm

Monday, June 8 at 7:30pm

Thursday, June 11 at 9:30pm

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Mrs. Misses Kisses

Lead Artist: Sarah Lurie

Text: An Instant Answer or A Hundred Prominent Men

As we delve into the dissociation between word and meaning and explore the question of synthesis we ask:  Who won one. Who won won. Can you colour it to satisfy the eye. What is the word. What is the thing.

on a double bill with…

Someday Americans

Lead Artist: Patrick Scheid

Text: Americans

Butter, thread, music, puppies and more make up this messy, meticulous meditation on Stein’s Americans. Mmm. Join us as we map out the landscape of Stein’s imagined America. Someday. Now.

Performances

Friday, June 12 at 9:30pm

Saturday, June 13 at 7:30pm & 9:30pm

Monday, June 15 at 7:30pm

Tuesday, June 16 at 7:30pm

Wednesday, June 17 at 7:30pm

Thursday, June 18 at 7:30pm

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I Made a Mistake

Lead Artist: John Del Gaudio

Text: Not Sightly / IIIIIIIIII.

“Slightly painful and really more satisfactory stinted…In a particular relief…In the rest of piles of candles…It’s not very active.” Mob mentality that actually makes you find the right angle so that you can hear the text in the correct way that makes you think of cows. The installation rises. The performance sets. 

The performance will coincide with a special 3-day installation where the visitor can read Stein’s The Making of Americans to TMT Artistic Producer John Del Gaudio.

Performances

Friday, June 19 – Monday, June 22 at 7:30pm

Installation

Saturday, June 20 – Monday, June 22 from 10:00am – 6:00pm

For more information or to order tickets go to http://www.targetmargin.org/

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And that's the scoop. Tune in tomorrow for another Talking Topic.