BroadwayWorld Names HamletHub Editor, Maggie Carey, Performer of the Decade Written by HamletHub
Performer of the decade for the Rockland/Westchester Region.
The 2020 BroadwayWorld Awards - which were back bigger than ever, celebrate the best in local theatre of the past decade!
Carey has been involved in community theater in the Brewster/Carmel New York area since moving to Putnam County in 1996. Prior to that, she was involved in hundreds of productions in the lower Westchester County Community since 1980.
Carey had been nominated for Performer of the Decade for her performance as John Adams in 1776 , a gender blind presentation of the Tony Award-winning musical presented in 2017 by the Bedford Community Theater at the John Jay Homestead in Katonah, NY.
Smuin s ‘Christmas Ballet’ closes Thursday Written by Los Altos Town Crier Report
The live performances are over, but recorded versions of Smuin’s first virtual edition of its annual “The Christmas Ballet” will be offered today and Thursday.
Featuring classical ballet and contemporary numbers, the online show highlights time-honored favorites and surprises set to holiday tunes, incorporating ballet, tap, jazz and swing.
Two programs
Programs A and B include a variety of livestreamed performances by different pods of Smuin artists dancing classic Christmas ballet works, along with premieres from company artists and Smuin alumni Amy Seiwert, Rex Wheeler and Ben Needham-Wood, an Emmy-winning choreographer.
Rachel Howard December 12, 2020Updated: December 14, 2020, 8:03 am
Cassidy Isaacson and Brandon Alexander perform in Smuin Contemporary Ballet’s first virtual presentation of “The Christmas Ballet.” Photo: Terez Dean Orr
Michael Smuin was a master at building dependable, durable, crowd-pleasing machines. Perhaps the ultimate proof of this can be seen now through Dec. 24 in the online stream of Smuin Contemporary Ballet’s “The Christmas Ballet.”
Created in 1995, a year after Smuin founded the San Francisco dance company, this spectacle was designed to sate all tastes (though you’re more likely to love it if you lean toward a Rockettes-style Broadway baby aesthetic). There’s a “Classical Christmas” opening half dressed in white and set to music including Bach’s “Magnificat,” and a “Cool Christmas” second half dressed in red and set to pop ditties such as “Santa Baby” and “Christmas in New Orleans.”