Rotary celebrates year with awards and installation of new board
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The Rotary Club of Marco Island Noontime celebrated its successful 2020-21 Year and installed the new officers and board for the 2021-22 Rotary year.
The meeting opened with invocation and pledge by club member, Reverend Jessica Babcock. Linda Sandlin, outgoing president, wrapped up the year, “This has been a challenging year for the world, our country, and our community but all of you have risen to the challenge and I am so proud and grateful to all of you.
“Rotary is all about doing good in our communities and in the world. We are people of action. For the hungry you supported Neighbors Helping Neighbors, Our Daily Bread, Collier Harvest and Meals of Hope. For the children, you supported eight college scholarships, Educate the Children, Shelter for Abused Women & Children, Joy of Giving, Camp Florida, District Youth Peace Action, District Literacy Committee, Project Graduation, the Center for the
Arts events for Sarasota Manatee: Jan. 28-Feb. 3
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Key Chorale goes for Baroque
Like other organizations that have been experimenting with digital performances and testing how many artists they can safely bring together in one space, Key Chorale is expanding its group of musicians for its “Bach Together Again” concert that makes its digital debut Friday. Artistic Director Joseph Caulkins said he chose the Baroque program, which features Vivaldi’s “Gloria” and Johann Sebastian Bach’s “Magnificat,” because of the joyful and uplifting qualities in the music. It features the Key Chorale Chamber singers, orchestra musicians and soloists. It will be available on the group’s website through Feb. 21. keychorale.org
T. Michele Walker, Correspondent
Before the pandemic, it was a safe bet that on almost any evening, a production of the musical “Nunsense” was playing on a stage somewhere in the world. Clearly, there’s nothing wackier than a nun in a habit doing something unexpected or unusual, from Sally Field in “The Flying Nun” to the nuns in “The Sound of Music” or Whoopi Goldberg in “Sister Act.” Producers know that nuns on stage help fill their seats.
Dan Goggin’s “Nunsense” is a beloved warhorse for a reason. It’s pure, lighthearted merriment with tried and true laughs built around “nun” liners, “nun” puns and “nun” sequiturs in a story about a group of nuns who reveal that they crave the entertainment spotlight.
Even though staging shows during a pandemic is “twice as hard” as usual, Rick Kerby says he feels fortunate that the Manatee Players is able to keep producing while so many other theaters have shut down.
“It does make me appreciate the fact that we’re able to do anything,” said Kerby, the producing artistic director of the Manatee Performing Arts Center, home to the Manatee Players community theater. “So many of my friends who run theaters across the country are shutting their doors or waiting it out. It makes us feel good about us as a company, promoting our actors and working to keeping a product going.”