| Issue #28, October 6, 2006 |
Take Five 2006 with Jan Silver
HIGHLIGHTS
Columbus Day weekend brings much entertainment to the South Fork. Westhampton Beach Performing Arts Center has Songwriters Hall of Famer Jimmy Webb on Saturday evening and the funny Umbilical Brothers for two shows on Sunday. Sag Harbor’s Bay Street Theatre presents HBO comedy star Robert Wuhl on Saturday and Best Female Stand-Up Comedy winner Kathleen Madigan on Sunday. East Hampton’s Guild Hall has South American comedian Saulo Garcia’s one-man show El Insomnio Americano on Saturday. There are also several independent film screenings in Sag Harbor, East Hampton and Southampton this weekend.
Several local villages have fall celebrations this weekend. Southampton’s harvest weekend starts tonight at the library with music and laughter from Eric Knight, then sidewalk sales on Saturday and Sunday (raindate Monday), “Taste of Southampton” specials at local restaurants, and a family circus day Sunday at the Parrish Art Museum. Westhampton Beach has an art show on the village green Saturday and Sunday with pianist Peter Martin Weiss and flutist/saxophonist Julie Bluestone performing both days from noon to 2 p.m. The Ross School’s Bridgehampton campus on Butter Lane hosts the annual Potato Festival on Sunday, 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. (all-natural foods, special potato dishes from local restaurants, children’s games; free admission but donations are suggested). Sag Harbor stores have sidewalk sales on Sunday, and Bayberry Nursery in Amagansett holds the annual Giant Pumpkin Contest and Weigh-off on Sunday at noon. Some years, competitors have brought in pumpkins weighing more than 200 pounds.
The Hamptons International Film Festival’s (October 18-22) schedule and tickets are now available online (www.hamptonsfilmfest.org), by telephone (1-866-HIFF-TIX) or at the box office (East Hampton Historical Society, 101 Main St., across from The Palm restaurant). The East Hampton Artists Studio Tour is this Saturday and Sunday. More than 20 studios will be open each day from 10 a.m. until 5 p.m. for the self-guided tour. Meet the artists and purchase their work. Admission is $50 to the nonprofit Artists Alliance of East Hampton (sold at several local stores or call 631-324-2225) and it includes a cocktail party Saturday from 5:30 p.m. to 7:30 p.m.
THEATER and COMEDY
Bay Street Theatre’s “Comedy Club” has two performers this weekend. On Saturday, Robert Wuhl is onstage at 8 p.m. He created and starred in two successful HBO series, Arli$$ and Assume the Position. He is an Emmy Award winner, a movie actor and known for his storytelling comedic style. On Sunday at 8 p.m., comedian Kathleen Madigan takes center stage. She has her own HBO comedy show, often guests on the late-night television shows and received the American Comedy Award’s Best Female Stand-Up.
Tickets to both shows are $48 and can be purchased at the Sag Harbor box office after 11 a.m. (631-725-9500) or online at www.baystreet.org.
South American actor/comedian Saulo Garcia brings his one-man show of tragi-comic monologues about immigrants’ experiences in the U.S., El Insomnio Americano, to the John Drew Theater, Guild Hall, East Hampton on Saturday at 8 p.m. The show is in Spanish and tickets ($35 & $45) are available by calling 866-811-4111 or (631) 903-3623.
The very funny and off-the-wall performing Umbilical Brothers bring their Off-Broadway show Thwak to the Westhampton Beach Performing Arts Center on Sunday. They will do their combination of mime, acrobatics, music and mayhem at 3 p.m. and 7 p.m. Tickets are $40 and $45 for adults, $15 and $20 for children 12 and under; reserve seats at the box office after noon (631-288-1500) or online at www.whbpac.org.
The Hampton Theatre Company presents Charles Busch’s hit Broadway comedy The Tale of the Allergist’s Wife beginning next Thursday evening at the Quogue Community Hall. Andrew Botsford plays the nice doctor husband, Frances Sherman is his neurotically funny wife, Mindy Washington portrays the very comic mother-in-law and Ali Hamdouchi is their Iraqi doorman. Performances are Thursday through Saturday evenings at 8 p.m. and Sundays at 2:30 p.m. until October 29. Tickets are $20 adults, $18 seniors, $10 students; call (631) 653-8955 for reservations.
MUSIC
Music director and hilarious raconteur Eric Knight performs an evening of piano, laughter and music at Southampton’s Rogers Memorial Library tonight at 7 p.m. “A Little Knight Music” is followed by a champagne and dessert reception. Tickets are $20 ($10 for friends of the library); call (631) 283-0774 ext. 523 for reservations.
Singer/pianist/composer Jimmy Webb takes the Westhampton Beach Performing Arts Center stage on Saturday at 8 p.m. Elected to the American Songwriters Hall of Fame and winner of multiple Grammy Awards for composing and orchestration, he is the composer of “Galveston,” “By the Time I Get to Phoenix,” “Wichita Lineman,” “Up, Up and Away” and “MacArthur Park.” His songs have been big hits for Glen Campbell, the Fifth Dimension, and Richard Harris, but he is a fine interpreter of his own music. Tickets ($35-$65) are sold at the box office after noon (631-288-1500) or online at www.whbpac.org.
Susan and Stephen Sanfilippo will present a concert of historic and traditional sea chanteys, “Songs of Fish-shape Paumanok,” on Saturday, 3 p.m., at the Marine Museum on Bluff Rd., Amagansett (free admission). Composer Jane Leslie performs at the Montauk library on Sunday at 3 p.m. Her music combines popular and classical styles.
Recommended performers at local clubs and restaurants: Amagansett – Stephen Talkhouse (call 631-267-3117 for tickets) – renowned British reggae band Steel Pulse (Fri.); Estia Cantina – Brazilian-born, New York-based jazz bassist Nilson Matta and pianist Helio Alves (Fri. & Sat., call 267-6320); Montauk – Montauk Yacht Club (Fri. 3-7 p.m.), music weekends at Gurney’s Inn; East Hampton – Turtle Crossing (Annie Morgan band Thurs., Mama Lee & friends Fri.), Maidstone Arms (Jane Hastay and Peter Weiss on Fri.), Babette’s (pianist Paul Gene on Sat.); Sagaponack – wine/cheese/music 5 to 7 p.m. Thurs. at Wolffer Estate Vineyards; Bridgehampton – pop standards and soft jazz at Kipling’s Fri. & Sat.; jazz brunch Sun. at World Pie; jazz Sun. eve at Pierre’s; Southampton – music weekends at Lori’s (75 Main St.) and Tugboats North Sea, jazz Sun. 4-7 p.m. at Southampton Inn; Hampton Bays – Edgewater; Westhampton Beach – music weekends at The Patio, Casa Basso (Sat.), Passionfish (calypso Thurs.), Westhampton Beach Steak House (Fri.-Sun.); Riverhead – Eastenders Coffee House (Thurs.-Mon.), Tweed’s (Fri. & Sat.).
FILMS
There are four very different films showing at local venues tonight. The John Jermain library, Sag Harbor, presents the recent comedy Thank You for Smoking at 6:30 p.m. There is no admission charge, but arrive a few minutes early for a good seat. Southampton’s Parrish Art Museum begins its fall international cinema series at 7 p.m. with the mystery Cache (France, 2005) starring Daniel Auteuil, Juliette Binoche and Annie Girardot ($5 Museum members, $8 guests). East Hampton’s Pollock-Krasner House continues its “Artists on Film” series with sculptor John Chamberlain’s choice tonight of Rustler’s Rhapsody, a little-known satire of westerns and homosexuality; Chamberlain will briefly discuss the film with historian Dr. Marion Wohlberg Weiss (7 p.m.; $5 guests, $4 members). “The Picture Show at Bay Street Theatre” presents the musical comedy Daddy Long Legs, starring Leslie Caron and Fred Astaire, at 8 p.m. The $5 admission includes popcorn.
The 1974 documentary about Pop Art collector Robert Scull will be screened and introduced by its co-director, E.J. Vaughn, on Sunday, 4 p.m., at Guild Hall, East Hampton (free admission). The Beatles’ debut comedy, A Hard Day’s Night, will be shown next Thursday, October 12, 3 p.m. at Southampton’s Rogers Memorial Library and rock historian Vincent Bruno will talk about the Beatles’ influence (in the same venue) at 7 p.m. There is no admission charge for either event but reservations are requested call (631) 283-0774 ext. 523.
SPEAKERS
(no admission charge unless noted)
Judge Michael Corriero will speak about juvenile justice and his new book, Judging Children As Children, at BookHampton, East Hampton, on Saturday at 8 p.m.
Canio’s Books owners, writer/editor Maryann Calendrille and photographer Kathryn Szoka, invite all to a publication party for their new book Sag Harbor Is: A Literary Celebration on Sunday, 5 p.m. to 7 p.m., at the bookshop on Upper Main St., Sag Harbor.
SPECIAL EVENT
The Family Counseling Service of Westhampton has its annual fund-raising golf tournament at Hampton Hills Golf and Country Club next Tuesday, October 10. WFAN sportscaster and Westhampton resident Ann Liquori will be honored at the all-day event which includes brunch, play, cocktails & buffet dinner, auction, raffle, and awards. Call (631) 288-1954 ext. 49 for more information.
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