NYS Music 202​0

Category: Comedy

  • EPAC Virtual Christmas Show Starts December 17

    The EPAC Virtual Christmas Show will be available on EPAC Digital, a new online platform granting digital access to EPAC Productions, from December 17th through January 3rd, 2021.

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    Endicott Performing Arts Center has put together a spectacular variety show of great holiday classics, as well as some newer contemporary songs to brighten your holiday season. You can watch local talent perform your signature holiday songs, that you can’t have Christmas without, including performances of “Happy Christmas… War is Over,” “You’re a Mean One, Mr. Grinch” and “White Christmas,” among many others. There will be performances from different locations, including people singing and dancing from home, from the EPAC Recording Stage, and out and about in the local landscape of the Southern Tier.

    A short holiday themed puppet show presented by the EPAC Puppet Tree Theater Group is also a part of the series, as well as archival footage of shows from Christmas’ past. Don’t miss this experience, with amazing local talent performing virtually for the safety and entertainment of the entire community.

    Visit the Endicott Performing Arts Center website for more details and how to register for on-demand tickets to this Virtual Event.

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    The Endicott Performing Arts Center is a non-profit organization whose mission is to provide an affordable and high quality venue to local, regional and touring performing artists, enabling them to present, develop, & improve their artistic efforts.

    Over the past 23 years, EPAC has: Renovated and Operated out of the 104 year old “Lyric Theater” in Endicott, NY. To provide a means for thousands of community members to gain education about all aspects of the performing arts, while presenting a diverse array of affordable high quality performing arts events to our community. EPAC typically attracts over 20,000 people to the Arts Center every year, as well as hundreds of people to the outdoor “Stage at Little Italy” with its annual Shakespeare in the Park event at the George W. Johnson Park.

  • Watch the new trailer for the upcoming Pixar Movie “Soul”

    Pixar this weekend debuted an inspirational new trailer for their upcoming movie, Soul.

    The first trailer depicted the soul of the musician Joe Garner, voiced by Jamie Foxx, struggling to find himself in ‘The Great Before,’ a place where souls gain personality traits before they are born into the world.

    The new trailer depicts Joe as a middle school band teacher, sharing his passion for music that he finds everywhere in his neighborhood in New York City.

    Soul will arrive in movie theaters in November 2020.

    “Music moves people,” says Joe, “Music is life, you just need to know where to look.”

    Written and directed by Pete Docter, who co-wrote notable movies like Up, Inside Out and Monsters, Inc., Soul centers around Joe Gardner (voiced by Jamie Foxx), who gets a chance to perform at a famous jazz club, but instead falls into a sinkhole, where his soul leaves his body. He must then has to find his way back to his body, with the help of 22, a soul voiced by Tina Fey.

    Soul promotes passion and to go for what you love. In Joe’s case, it is his love for music.

    Although the score for the film was composed by Oscar winners Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross, both trailers feature neo-soul musician Cody Chesnutt with the song, “Parting Ways,” and pop rock band AJR with the song, “Overture.”

    This marks Pixar’s twenty-third film and will release in theaters on November 20 of this year.

    When Soul is released, it will be accompanied by Burrow, from the Pixar SparkShorts program. The official description of Burrow says:

    In Disney and Pixar’s new short film Burrow, a young rabbit embarks on a journey to dig the burrow of her dreams, despite not having a clue what she’s doing. Rather than reveal to her neighbors her imperfections, she digs herself deeper and deeper into trouble. After hitting (bed)rock bottom, she learns there is no shame in asking for help. Directed by Madeline Sharafian and produced by Mike Capbarat as part of Pixar’s SparkShorts program, Burrow opens in theaters on Nov. 20, 2020, in front of Disney and Pixar’s Soul.

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  • Adirondack Theatre Festival & Bloomington Playwrights Project Bring “In the Box” Virtual Experiences

    Adirondack Theatre Festival (ATF) & Bloomington Playwrights Project (BPP) have announced a brand new interactive virtual experience named ‘In The Box Entertainment’.  Beginning this September and running through February 2021, these from-your-couch experiences will include a cruise, hands-on-insane magic shows, a holiday talent show with live voting, an interactive hunt for a criminal, a film festival, and a “wine and canvas” night gone wrong. 

    Chad Rabinovitz, the Producing Artistic Director for ATF and BPP will create and direct the entire series. Also on the stellar team is; playwright Hank Greene (Knights of the Sales Office) and Jeffrey Small as the consulting producer. From Saratoga Springs, Mills Entertainment will ensure that these online experiences perform at high levels, taking Zoom from ‘a video chat to an interactive television experience’.

    “Our goal from the start was to create entertainment that isn’t a consolation prize for not having live theatre, but instead to develop an iteration of live theatre that benefits specifically from being digital.  We’re not putting our art form on Zoom, we’re creating an art form for Zoom,” states Chad Rabinovitz. 

    Shows will be live ticketed performances experienced within the comforts of your home.  Rounding out the unique experience will be a themed box mailed to the ticket holder prior to the show of their choosing.

    More information and ticketing can be found at the BPP, ATF or at www.intheboxentertainment.com.  Tickets may also be purchased by calling the Wood Theater Box Office at (518) 480-4878.

     In The Box Entertainment Lineup:

    Sep. 10-12 – Magic in a Box: Remote Control with Max Major A Virtual Mind Reading Experiment

    Sep. 15-19 – Magic in a Box: Glitches in Reality with Simon Coronel

    Oct. 15-18 – Film Festival in a Box: 5th Annual Adirondack Film Festival

    Nov. 3-14 – Cruise In a Box: Living Room Cruise Lines

    Dec .10 – Bloomington, IN – Talent in a Box: Holiday Family Talent Show

    Dec. 17 – Glens Falls, NY – Talent in a Box: Holiday Family Talent Show

    Jan. 12-23 – Mystery in a Box: Manhunt

    Feb. 9 -20 – Paint in a Box: Painting for One

  • Bill and Ted are back to face the music in new trailer

    It’s been 25 years since we last heard from Bill and Ted, who performed “God Gave Rock and Roll To You” in front of the world, thus leading to world peace. Now they’re middle-aged dads and are on a mission once again to be excellent to each other, and to party on. Keanu Reeves and Alex Winter return this summer in Bill and Ted 3: Face the Music with the new trailer debuting today.

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    The plot of the film focuses on Bill and Ted, who are back in San Dimas, CA, yet still have to fulfill their destiny by writing a hit song.

    It looks like time-travel is once again on tap, as well as a visit to hell to meet Death, played by William Sadler, reprising his most excellent role from 1991’s Bill and Ted’s Bogus Journey. The release date is not yet set due to COVID-19 but we can most likely look for a late summer/early fall release.