[csc_newsline] The Concert Singers of Cary Choral Notes - for the week beginning 4/01/13

[Ingrid Speakman]

*Choral Notes for the week of 04/01*
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Announcing Solo Auditions on Tuesday April 2nd !!!!

for a Concert Version of *Strike Up the Band!*

By George and Ira Gershwin

One performance only featuring The Concert Singers of Cary and the The
Raleigh Symphony Orchestra at the Koka Booth Amphitheater on Saturday, May
11th at 7:30 PM

 Auditions: Tuesday, April 2nd from 7:00 – 10:00 PM


No Appointment Required – First Come, First Served

Meredith College Music Building Room 105

Bring a solo song from a Broadway show from 1970 or earlier.


Cast

Horace J. Fletcher – owner of the Horace J. Fletcher American Cheese Co.

Joan Fletcher – Horace J. Fletcher’s daughter

Jim Townsend – A reporter for The Gazette

Mrs. Draper – A society woman

Timothy Harper – The foreman of the Horace J. Fletcher Cheese Co.

Anne Draper - – Mrs. Draper’s daughter

Colonel Holmes – A confidential adviser to the President of the United
States

C. Edgar Sloane – The manager of the Horace J. Fletcher American Cheese
Factory

A Soldier

A Narrator




 *Who ARE these people on page 32?? (Thank you David Lindquist!)*
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Morris Gest - leading theatrical producer -
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Morris_Gest
Dempsey - almost certainly Jack Dempsey - well known boxer -
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jack_Dempsey
Ben Turpin - Vaudeville & silent film actor -
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ben_Turpin
Francis Bushman - actor, film director, scriptwriter -
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Francis_X._Bushman
Charlotte Cushman - actress -
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charlotte_Saunders_Cushman
Edwin Booth - leading stage actor of 19th Century -
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edwin_Booth
Admiral (George) Dewey - naval hero of Spanish American War -
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Dewey
Lefty Louie - a.k.a. Louis Rosenberg - underworld figure involved in well
reported ganglang incident of 1912 Bambino Ruth - this is of course, Babe
Ruth Ginsberg - ??
O'Reilly - a possible reference to George M. Cohan's "Rise of Rosie
O'Reilly" of 1923; not sure about this Fazio - ??
Abie Cohn - there was an Irving Berlin song ("Yiddisha Nightingale",
1911) which involves a character named Abie Cohn Leffingwell - possibly
Ernest deK. Leffingwell, a noted explorer -
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ernest_de_Koven_Leffingwell
Fenevessi - probably referring to the Fennyvesseys who were noted for over
the top promoters of their burlesque show early in 1920s Schmaltz - a reach,
but there was a noted yodeler of 1920s named Oskar Friedrich Schmaltz
Guggenheimer - ??
Rufus Rastus Jackson - possibly a reference to Rufus Rastus Jackson Brow, a
song title from 1927 Big Chief Muddy Waters - I think this is a song title.
The blues musician who went by that name was too young to be of note in
1920s.
Minsky - I think this is a reference to Minsky's Burlesque -
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minsky's_Burlesque
Rumshinsky - this would be Joseph Rumshinsky of Yiddish theater fame -
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Rumshinsky
Donahue - possibly referring to the vaudeville act of Terrance and Molly
Donahue from There's No Business Like Show Business Johnson - possibly Enoch
"Nucky" Johnson, mob boss - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enoch_L._Johnson
Yon Yon Yonson - name from a popular song of the time -
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yon_Yonson
Ching Ling Foo - Chinese magician of international fame -
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ching_Ling_Foo


*NEED:*
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We have a singer who has night-driving vision difficulties and lives in
Fuquay-Varina. Please let me know if you could be of help; singer is
offering to share cost of gas.


See you at rehearsal!

Ingrid Speakman
Membership Chair, The Concert Singers of Cary
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