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Re-Awakening Disney’s Sleeping Beauty
NASHUA - Peacock Players, New Hampshire’s premiere award winning youth theatre, proudly presents the Disney classic,
Sleeping Beauty at the Janice B. Streeter Theater, located at 14 Court Street, in Nashua,
NH, for two weekends in March.
When the new princess Aurora is born, the
entire kingdom rejoices. At a royal birthday
ceremony, three good fairies - Flora, Fauna,
and Merryweather - bestow gifts of magic upon the child. When the uninvited evil
sorceress Maleficent shows up, she places a
curse on the princess - that the princess will
die on her sixteenth birthday after pricking
her finger on a spinning wheel’s spindle. The
fairies alter the curse by casting a spell that
will allow the princess to rather awake from
an ageless sleep with a kiss from her true love.
The fairies steal Aurora away to a cottage in
the woods to keep her away from the eyes of
Maleficent, and raise her as their own child,
named Briar Rose.
On her sixteenth birthday, Aurora meets
Prince Phillip in the woods and falls in love.
Maleficent manages to kidnap the Prince and
her horrible prophecy is fulfilled when she
tricks Aurora into touching the spindle of a
spinning wheel created by Maleficent herself.
Realizing that the Prince is in trouble, the
three good fairies head to Maleficent’s castle
at the Forbidden Mountain, and spring the
Prince loose. But the Prince soon finds himself up against Maleficent’s army of goons
and brutes, and the power of Maleficent’s evil
spells. Based upon the 1959 animated feature,
Disney’s Sleeping Beauty brings fairy magic, evil dragons, and loves true kiss from the
screen to the stage for a whole new generation of kids and families.
The Peacock Players Mainstage production
will be directed by Peacock Players Resident
Artist and Disney aficionado, MaryEllen Stevenson. Musical Director Sarah Evans, and
Choreographers Emma and Hannah Benson
will also lend their extraordinary talents toward the production.
“Disney’s Sleeping Beauty is timeless, fanciful, and completely enchanting,” says Ste-
Katherine Towle as the ultimate villainess Maleficent in Peacock Players’ upcoming Mainstage
production of Disney’s Sleeping Beauty.
venson. “This production will charm children
of all ages with the power of believing in the
most imaginative things. Experiencing a live
Disney production of this caliber is a once in
a lifetime adventure, and Peacock Players is
proud to bring this Disney classic to life - for
a whole new generation of adventurers.”
The cast features Lakeland Galinson (of
Amherst) as Young Prince Phillip. The rest
of the ensemble is rounded out with New
Hampshire’s most recognized and awarded
young theatre performers.
Peacock Players, New Hampshire’s premiere award winning youth theatre, recently received four New Hampshire Theatre
Awards and eight Top Three Finalist honors
– including Best Youth Production for their
November 2013 Mainstage production of
Shrek – The Musical.
Please note that Disney’s Sleeping Beauty is
rated G for all audiences.
Disney’s Sleeping Beauty performances
are scheduled for Friday, March 14th @ 7pm;
Saturday, March 15th @ 2pm & 7pm; Sunday, March 16th @ 2pm; Friday, March 21st
@ 7pm; Saturday, March 22nd @ 2pm & 7pm;
and Sunday, March 23rd @ 2pm. Tickets are
currently on sale. To purchase tickets or for
more information, please call the Box Office
at (603) 886-7000 or visit www.peacockplayers.org.
Nashua Community Concert Association - Dale Gonyea
Concert on March 15
“The Landscape - A Canvas of Color”
Paintings by Marcia Blakeman and Jerrie Lawson Thru March 22
MANCHESTER –– Have you been to the East Colony Fine Art
Gallery lately? Big changes are happening at East Colony Fine Art.
In January, the Gallery underwent a facelift, moved some walls
and will be expanding the number of artists exhibiting at the Gallery. The Gallery reports sales are on the rise and now with even
more selection in the gallery, it is a great time to start or add art
to your collection. With thirty-one exhibiting artists, you will not
only find paintings ranging from oil, watercolor and pastel, but
also offer multi-media ranging from fiber art to found objects as
well as glass and pottery.
Jerrie thinks landscapes, waterscapes and flowers are one of
Mother Nature’s most wonderful and beautiful gifts. She enjoys
painting them and painting details that a person wouldn’t normally see at a quick glance. Marcia’s painting are very fluid and vibrant.
East Colony Fine Art is located in Langer Place, 55 South Commercial Street, Manchester, NH. Regular gallery hours: Tuesday-Friday 11-5 & Sat 11-3. Phone: 603-621-7400. All gallery events
are free and open to the public, come as you are, there is plenty of
free parking.
The Nashua Community Concert
Association brings outstanding piano virtuoso and humorist Dale Gonyea to Nashua’s Elm Street Middle
School, 117 Elm St., at 8 PM on Saturday, March 15.
Called by the Los Angeles Times
“Heir to the piano-comedy throne”
of Victor Borge, Gonyea began playing at age five. He is not only an outstanding pianist, adding his own
brand of humor to each performance, but has written a number of
songs for stars like Bette Midler, Ray
Stevens and Rich Little. In addition
to having won an Emmy Award, one
of his song-spoofs was nominated
by Grammy as Comedy Record of
the Year. As our audience learned
when Gonyea performed for us in
1997, his show will be a highlight of
this season. The laughs will come
often, and the piano virtuosity will
captivate us.
Tickets may be reserved by calling 318-1792 or 888-9158 or online
at www.cityartsnashua.org. Further
information is available on our web
site: http://www.nashuacommunityconcerts.org
Piano virtuoso and humorist Dale
Gonyea entertains at Nashua’s Elm
Street Middle School, 117 Elm St.,
at 8 PM on Saturday, March 15
presents Distinguished American Artists Discussing Art lecture series
MARCH 20, 2014
Marshall Arisman
illustrator, painter & story-teller
“Whittys” by Stephen Previte
Hollis Arts Society Presents Stephen L.
Previte as Artist of the Month for March
Local artist and HAS member Stephen Previte is the Artist of
the Month for March at RE/MAX Properties, 2 Ash St., Hollis.
A Champagne Reception will be held on Sunday, March 9th,
from 10-2 PM.
Enjoy champagne, cheese and conversation with the artist while
viewing a large selection of original Oil Paintings and Fine Art
Prints in a warm country home setting.
Stephen was born and raised in East Boston, Massachusetts and
has now lived in Hollis for many years. He has an engineering degree in Mechanical Design Technology and worked in a high tech
industry until 1986. It was then that he left corporate life to pursue
a career in fine art.
He is a self taught artist working with the medium of oil paint in
a style that he describes as “Representational Impressionism”. His
subject is that of light and atmosphere focused mainly on the rural
landscape and its architecture. He has exhibited throughout New
England and New York and has won many major awards including
the Manchester Art Association “Artist of the Year” recognition
for 1988/1989.
In addition to his working studio in Hollis, he also has a studio in
Nashua where he teaches adult oil painting.
The exhibit runs from March 1st through the 31st. Gallery hours
are 10 am to 4 pm Monday through Friday, and 10 am to 2 pm Saturday and Sunday. For questions call 465-2647 or Email slpaint@
charter.net
APRIL 10, 2014
Paul Harding
writer
APRIL 24, 2014
William Joyce
illustrator & writer
NH Institute of Art DAaDA Spring 2014 Lecture Series Opens
MANCHESTER—The NH Institute of Art (Institute) launches
its annual artist lecture series Distinguished American Artists Discussing Art (DAaDA) with a presentation from one of the most
prominent illustrators in the U.S.,
Marshall Arisman, entitled The
Space Between Illustration and Fine
Art. The lecture will take place on
March 20 at 6:00 p.m. at the Institute’s French Building auditorium
located at 148 Concord St. in Manchester.
The paintings and drawings of
Arisman have been widely exhibited, both internationally and nationally. His work may be seen in
the permanent collections of the
Brooklyn Museum, at the National
Museum of American Art and the
Smithsonian Institution, as well as
in many private and corporate collections. Arisman’s original graphic essay, Heaven Departed, in which
paintings and drawings describe
the emotional and spiritual impact
of nuclear war on society, was pub-
lished in book form by Vision Publishers. Chair of the MFA degree
program at the School of Visual
Arts in New York City, Arisman was
the first American invited to exhibit
his artwork in mainland China. His
series Sacred Monkeys appeared at
the Guang Dong Museum of Art
in April 1999. Arisman is the subject of a full-length documentary
film titled Facing the Audience: The
Arts of Marshall Arisman.
The next DAaDA fall series installment will be on April 10 and
will feature a presentation from author Paul Harding entitled Truth
and the Imagination. Tickets for the
Marshall Arisman lecture, as well
as all upcoming DAaDA events, are
$20 per lecture (general admission)
or $50 for all three lectures (preferred seating). For more information or to purchase tickets contact
Julia LaFleur at 836-2546 or [email protected], or visit the website
at www.NHIA.edu.
NH Institute of Art’s Sharon Arts Center to Feature Faculty Sabbatical Art Exhibition
SHARON—The New Hampshire
Institute of Art (Institute) will present “Time Out,” an exhibition featuring the sabbatical work by four
Institute faculty members. The
exhibition will run from March 7
through April 26 at the Sharon Arts
Center Exhibition Gallery, 30 Grove
Street, Peterborough, NH. The gallery will host an opening reception
on Friday, March 7, from 5–7pm.
Artists represented in this exhibition include: Marcus Greene, painting faculty; Patrick McCay, painting chair; Maureen Mills, ceramics
chair; and Gary Samson, photography chair.
Sabbaticals are a period of rest
from work and, for those who devote their life to providing a fine
arts education to others, a period of
time often dedicated to their own
research and practice. “We are excited to bring the work of our distinguished faculty artists to the
gallery,” said Camellia Sousa, gallery and store director for the Sharon Arts Center. “It is important for
people to not only realize but to see
and experience the vast talent that
exists among the Institute faculty along with their continued dedication to honing the skills of their
craft.”
Gallery hours are: Monday–Saturday: 10 am–6 pm. For more information or to view the entire exhibition and public presentation
schedule, visit www.nhia.edu/exhibitions-presentations.